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.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum
There were 1748 traffic fatalities in 2019. We're at 100,000 covid deaths.

So not really comparable.

Especially as there were so few traffic fatalities in 2020.

The more people they've given the first vaccination to, the more pressure on vaccine supplies there will be since there will be millions who need their second and millions who haven't even had their first yet.

Moderna helps plug one supply gap. But there are plenty of others.

With his crazy sing-sing way of speaking I'm amazed you could understand anything he said. (Who in their right mind thought this man was a good spokesperson?).

I bet the scientists are just as pissed off with him.

@Em777

He’s right.

Of course he’s right. The financial ramifications will continue for decades. And the death rate from undiagnosed and untreated cancers and heart conditions will still be too high for a very long time. Not to mention the massive mental health crisis. It would be naive to think otherwise.

[quote littlepattilou]@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.[/quote]
No one said it would only last a few months. They always said it would come back in winter. Always
Back in April last year , at the very latest, there were graphs showing a second wave over winter. I won’t ever forget seeing it

The usual doom muppets on this thread.

I wonder if a lot of the African nations who have had to deal with pandemics for centuries must wonder how pathetic we westerners are. A truly precious bunch!

To be fair @sleepwouldbenice someone did declare covid to be "over" every Monday on Mumsnet for weeks.

I remember all the discussion about a second wave.

Never mind the current affairs schtick. The best thing Robert Peston has ever done in my opinion, I bloody love it !

@Smallgoon

I wonder if a lot of the African nations who have had to deal with pandemics for centuries must wonder how pathetic we westerners are. A truly precious bunch!

The 5th richest country on earth.

Weeks of notice that this was coming. Months, really.

Our pandemic preparedness plan was so good we sold it to Singapore. (Who actually used it)

And here we are.

5th worst covid deaths.

2nd worst economic damage.

And we're not at the second peak yet.

@Crumpetycrump

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

He wasn't wrong though, was he? The financial crash was pretty terrible all round.

Yes it is depressing that we are potentially looking at a long road of disruption, but that's not Peston's fault.

I'm feeling overfaced today too OP, it is a very tough time

[quote PrincessNutNuts]@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum
There were 1748 traffic fatalities in 2019. We're at 100,000 covid deaths.

So not really comparable.

Especially as there were so few traffic fatalities in 2020.

The more people they've given the first vaccination to, the more pressure on vaccine supplies there will be since there will be millions who need their second and millions who haven't even had their first yet.

Moderna helps plug one supply gap. But there are plenty of others. [/quote]
Totally comparable because if you go back and look I was talking about the number of people in there 40s that have died of covid. I was also saying about cancer but obviously that doesn't suit your narrative.

As for the amount of vaccine not being enough. We already have 21 million doses delivered for safety checking. More being delivered each week.

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is about to submit final data. It is a single dose vaccine and we have ordered that too.

Oh and the Pfizer vaccine has some bottle supply issues because Pfizer crazily didn't order enough but that is still being delivered. If a little slower than you would hope.

We are looking pretty darn good at the moment. That should put a smile on your face princess

@PrincessNutNuts

To be fair *@sleepwouldbenice* someone did declare covid to be "over" every Monday on Mumsnet for weeks.

I remember all the discussion about a second wave.

Yes but the govt and every scientist I ever saw said it would increase again. I blame the govt for lots of things bit they've always said it would worsen The new variant is really thrown it to shit though

I rather liked it when he got his arse handed to him, very patiently and politely, by a senior medic when he persisted in error early on (didn't grasp the difference in types of test and from ignorance was asking seriously off beam questions)

I really haven't trusted him in anything to do with medical issues since; he's off topic and his ignorance shows.

But yes, we need to get used to the idea that there isn't a certain end date to all this. The possibility of considerable ameioration by Easter remains just that - a possibility.

I remember all the discussion about a second wave

Snap - I was looking at graphs earlier, and the thought of all those threads demanding a precise definition of a second wave, and decrying answers along the lines of 'there isn't one, but we'll know it when we see it'

Surely nobody thinks we'll be back to normal in less than months? How could we be?

I find his questions during the daily press conferences unbearable so wouldn't watch his programme based on that.

@Pinksmyfavoritecolour

He can draaaaaag out a word and sentence that man, he sets my teeth on edge, I have to turn over or off, not many do that to me.

It’s his. Random. Punctuation in the. Middle of. Sentances that. Gets. Me.

Aargghhh😣😫😫

@lazylinguist

Surely nobody thinks we'll be back to normal in less than months? How could we be?

Wilful ignorance?

Lack of understanding of reality, science and maths?

The Pandemic has been declared "over" many times in certain quarters. Weekly on here for a while.

To be fair Peston is correct. We have to learn to live with C19 and all the variants & mutations. Vaccines need to become an annual event.

Criticise his journalism by all means, but insulting someone with a speech impediment is just nasty.

Peston is talking so imprecisely it would be impossible to be wrong though.

I will stick to listening to Chris Whitty.

I don't think we'll be anywhere near 'normal' (meaning freely being able to mix with whoever etc) until next year providing the mutations work with the vaccine BUT I do think there will be a big improvement on on getting back on track to normal life by summer/autumn. Do I wish it was all over, of course I do but some people need to be more realistic

@endofthelinefinally

Criticise his journalism by all means, but insulting someone with a speech impediment is just nasty.

This is what I was politely trying to flag up earlier. I was trying to get people to see they were being shitty without having to tell them directly. Perhaps they'd think twice before ridiculing how someone speaks. It didn't work!

I don't watch ITV news but hated Peston when he was on the BBC. Clive Myrie has corned the BBC market on the doom-mongering.