Fucking Peston

[AnxiousAlpaca]

Made the mistake of watching the ITV News at 10. On comes Peston taking about Covid and lifting restrictions. He finishes by saying it’ll be “months or years” before things are normal. Someone talk me down because I can’t take much more of this.

It's clearly going to be months or years before things are completely normal (that was always the case) but that doesn't mean it will be as bad as it is now.

At least some schools may reopen by the end of Feb and by Easter the worst should be done with. If the vaccine provides long term immunity next winter will be much easier.

@PrincessNutNuts

I thought Peston was spot on.

Some of the groups who are most likely to end up in ITU (men aged 50-59, men aged 60/69, women aged 60-69) won't get their first vaccine for several months. And their second for several months after that.

Even longer for men 40-49.

How can we open up and throw all those people to the wolves?

The numbers you are looking at are ICU and actually fairly small compared with overall admissions.

Also the over 50s at are current rate will have there first jabs in April. As the vaccination rate is ramping up every week that will probably be a lot sooner.

The oxford vaccine is actually efficient enough to provide good protection with only the first dose. So the delay yo have the second is not really an issue. Other countries have know decided after looking at the data to copy us there.

If you are in your 40s traffic accidents, cancer and a hell of a lot of other things are more likely to kill you. So basically never leave the house if you are that worried. Though of course household accidents are a big killer too.

@Pinksmyfavoritecolour

I agree about Robert Peston's speech, it's really irritating, other contributors to ITV & BBC news try to take on the same speaking style, more recently Carl Dinnen & Joel Hills, str-e-e-ching syllables out them rushing the rest of the sentence, silly.

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@Crumpetycrump

Yes I also remember him from the financial crash - what a doom monger.

Oh dear not a doom monger

I think I'm right in saying he has a significant speech impediment that he controls by stretching out certain words. I think it took quite a lot to get as good as it is now. He doesn't particularly like speaking like that but it's better than the alternative. Anyway that's by the by.

Also irrelevant didn't something really tragic happen to him. Is he widowed? Anyway I accept in advance also irrelevant! As you were

I was a volunteer at a Covid vaccine site today. We are only 4.5 days in and we were super efficient. We could have had possibly 25% more patients through as we are totally organised. Hold onto that.
Peston might have the ear of politicians but it's the scientists we need to listen to.

@StillDumDeDumming

I think I'm right in saying he has a significant speech impediment that he controls by stretching out certain words. I think it took quite a lot to get as good as it is now. He doesn't particularly like speaking like that but it's better than the alternative. Anyway that's by the by.

Also irrelevant didn't something really tragic happen to him. Is he widowed? Anyway I accept in advance also irrelevant! As you were

Yes his wife died. It was quite a while ago now and he has a fairly well known partner these days

He's also got a continuous cough...

You may not like the message but journalists are there to (hopefully) tell it like it is.

If you don’t want reality, don’t watch news or current affairs programs.

Some of the groups who are most likely to end up in ITU (men aged 50-59, men aged 60/69, women aged 60-69) won't get their first vaccine for several months. And their second for several months after that.

Except that the conditions which are more likely to mean you end up in ICU also move you up the vaccine priority list, so the 60-year-old men who have the highest risk of being in ICU will also be vaccinated before their age category rolls around.

Peston is the David Ike of Doom. I genuinely think ITV employ him as a comedy act in a reverse psychology kind of way.

@notevenat20

I read fucking Peston and wondered what the topic would be.

This made me laugh....because I knew exactly what the topic would be 😂😂😂

Oh well I’ve just watched the programme in catch-up and there wasn’t really any doom lingering after all! Sir Patrick said admissions and deaths should start to fall next month. It was all quite positive really!

I thought Robert Peston had recovered from a stroke? Maybe I'm mixing him up with someone else...

It's not a popular viewpoint (months or years) but I have felt since this started it was going to be around 2 years in total, so that gives us about another year of this shite, on and off. Obviously it would be great if it was sooner... but I doubt it.

I think with Peston, always bear in mind his sources are really at the heart of power- so although he’s privy to good info, he may sometimes be (inadvertently) pushing a message that ctrl govt want him to push (not dissimilar to Laura K- I’d say with Laura I feel like there’s more blatant political bias. I feel like with Pesto he just watched the thick of it too much, and rather enjoys being at the centre of all the intrigue and drama- though he is often in danger of becoming the story).

So ask yourself- why did peston say that? Either:

• he has seen data which leads him to believe it’s true
• he has been told this by govt, who genuinely believe it
• he has been told this by govt who would like the public to believe it, but don’t necessarily feel so pessimistic themselves
• he is stating what he believes to be true, based on data, sources & observations

On the balance of probability, therefore, it’s likely there is basis in fact and we are indeed looking at a timeline of months-years

Personally think months is probably Pandemic proper, years of a new era of austerity.

ALTHOUGH Boris is a big spender, quite fiscally profligate- particularly if there’s a sniff of legacy to what he’s spending on- , so if he can cling on to power you may see rather more investment and spending than you might otherwise. Will it be on the right things? Probably not.

@RhubarbTea

Andrew Marr had the stroke.

I thought Robert Peston had recovered from a stroke? Maybe I'm mixing him up with someone else...

Andrew Marr?

Whatever you think of him you have to have lolled at the mumsnet swearometer

@Whycantibetangy

Whatever you think of him you have to have lolled at the mumsnet swearometer

Especially in light of the title of this thread!

@MaddieElla

He's also got a continuous cough...

Wes Streetings' eyes have been like saucers when Robert Peston coughs.

And the wonky specs!

God it’s the sighing that grates, like he’s talking to little children who bore him ridged with their annoying inability to understand his dull tone and uninteresting facts:

I’d quite like to punch him in the chops.

@AnaisNun

......he is stating what he believes to be true, based on data, sources & observations....

That's it. ^ It is his viewpoint and summarisation.

None of it is FACT, because nobody bloody knows how long it's going to last for.

@BluebellsGreenbells

God it’s the sighing that grates, like he’s talking to little children who bore him ridged with their annoying inability to understand his dull tone and uninteresting facts:

I’d quite like to punch him in the chops.

@AnxiousAlpaca We were also told (or lead to believe) last March, that Covid19 would last just several months. And yet here we all are!!! 10 months later, and it's only just starting to peak. The amount of people who have died in the last 2 months (from Covid19,) is higher than the amount who died in the 9 months prior to that.

Soooo... Just because someone says this will last for years, doesn't mean it will. Nobody knows anything for sure, and scaremongering bollocks like Robert Peston is spouting is boiling my piss.

I reckon we will be over the worst by early to mid Spring (like, the middle of April...) Not out of the woods, but over the worst. We have the vaccine now, so that's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I also get irritated by the way Robert Peston talks. Stretching out his syllables. 'So we will be well innnnnnnnn tooooooo the year 2025, before we will beeeeeeee allowed to have parrrrrrties again.'

Pillock.