Endless Propaganda

[Bewareoftheblob]

I cannot believe the endless Covid propaganda on the news channels at the moment. There doesn't seem to be any challenge to the stay at home/don't kill Gran/crying nurses narrative at all.

I am pretty disgusted by the emotional manipulation and attempts at behaviour modification going on.

Or am I being unreasonable...

We've had pretty much no health service over the past year. My father in law's cancer op was cancelled last week 'because of covid'. 'Hopefully' they'll be able to do it 'soon'.

Yes, because the government let the cases rise to a point where the NHS couldn't cope. Sorry but are people just wilfully misunderstanding this?

@Lastfreakinglegs

I had an angry covidiot leave a nasty note on my car when I drove 3 miles to take my 2 children to the beach. Apparently I was being selfish because I wasn't stuck at home thrashing myself on the back with willow branches and saying hail Mary.

Are you serious ? Ommmmggggg is this Cornwall ?

I do wonder why there hasn't been any kind of reporting on the negative effects of the lockdowns?

Eh? There’s been lots of them in the mainstream media, how have you missed them?

If I were in charge, I'd have implemented a full lockdown in Februar

How would you have enforced this & got 66m to comply?

What would you have done then?

I think there are many, many strategies that could have worked and did work elsewhere that should have been explored rather than harsh yo-yo lockdowns.

But perhaps more importantly, funding the nhs properly through the years and actually preparing for a pandemic situation (which seems to have been put on the back burner).

Meh. We've had pretty much no health service over the past year. My father in law's cancer op was cancelled last week 'because of covid'. 'Hopefully' they'll be able to do it 'soon'.

I’m not sure I understand your point, do you want them to stop treating COVID patients?

How would you have enforced this & got 66m to comply

Presumably the same way they did in March?

@BasiliskEgg you think seeing what happened in Italy had no impact on the UK population, fear is what caused many to comply willingly. The fear was not there in Feb!

Given that even the over 80s and ECV have an extremely high likelihood of surviving covid it is just preposterous using the "killing granny" threat every 5 minutes..

And when did I own the NHS so much so that it is now my responsibility to save our NHS? I havent been asked to save my NHS before, I've barely used it! Now suddenly I have to be a prisoner in my own home to save it.

@BasiliskEgg

We've had pretty much no health service over the past year. My father in law's cancer op was cancelled last week 'because of covid'. 'Hopefully' they'll be able to do it 'soon'.

Yes, because the government let the cases rise to a point where the NHS couldn't cope. Sorry but are people just wilfully misunderstanding this?

It's a fucking virus, doing what a virus does best. It's no one's 'fault' regardless of what some would have us believe.

I take it Covid is more important than cancer now? Since it's now the priority?

@OppsUpsSide

Meh. We've had pretty much no health service over the past year. My father in law's cancer op was cancelled last week 'because of covid'. 'Hopefully' they'll be able to do it 'soon'.

I’m not sure I understand your point, do you want them to stop treating COVID patients?

I'm not sure I understand your point, do you want them to stop treating cancer patients? Because they are.

I think the first European death was mid February & WHO didn't even label it a pandemic until March.

you think seeing what happened in Italy had no impact on the UK population, fear is what caused many to comply willingly. The fear was not there in Feb!

Can't send your kids to school if they aren't open, can't go to the pub if it's closed.

The countries that have dealt successfully with covid showed us exactly what needed to be done. We chose not to do it. Now we are paying the price.

Sometime next week we will reach 100,000 deaths.

I think that’s worth a bit of propaganda.

The only time I'm out and about is when I'm providing care to my elderly parents. The traffic this lockdown compared to the last lockdown is noticeably busier than the last

Well fewer people car sharing + fewer people willing to risk taking public transport = more traffic would be an obvious reason I would have thought.

The countries that have dealt successfully with covid showed us exactly what needed to be done. We chose not to do it. Now we are paying the price.

Don't get me wrong we made big mistakes but most comparisons are pointless. Some of the most successful countries had learnt from SARS & ignored the advice from WHO.

I'm not sure I understand your point, do you want them to stop treating cancer patients? Because they are.

I wasn’t making a point I was asking a question. Do you not have an answer?

@viques

Sometime next week we will reach 100,000 deaths.

I think that’s worth a bit of propaganda.

I'd rather have absolute facts than propaganda. I don't see how the number of dead should influence that.

I suppose we could "be more like China" 🤷‍♀️

@viques

Sometime next week we will reach 100,000 deaths.

I think that’s worth a bit of propaganda.

I'd rather my mum's death was not used for propaganda purposes thanks very much.

@2020BogOff

It's scary how totally one sided the news is atm.

One sided?

What exactly is 'the other side' that you don't think they're showing?

@viques

Sometime next week we will reach 100,000 deaths.

I think that’s worth a bit of propaganda.

It's nothing in the grand scheme of things. There are knocking on 70 million people in this country. The human race is not going to die out. There have always been pandemics. Would we even have noticed 30 years ago?

And yes, I know that every death is sad for the person's family.

It is nothing about being more like China.

Comparisons aren't pointless, they are necessary. European governments should have had firm procedures in place for a SARs like pandemic. Scientists have been telling them that for years.

I 100% agree. I have a lot of medics and psychologists in my friends and family circles and all are reporting a massive increase in children and teens in crisis, one today who I was talking to said that there is a massive rise in anorexia in teens where he's a doctor (kidney specialist). Autistic children not coping (psychologist) and people who never had mental health issues presenting with severe depression.
My news outlet that I watch (or used to) is Sky News. I can't anymore. Everything is covid, covid, covid.

The real tragedies are all the kids stuck at home in front of cameras. People trying to wfh whilst looking after kids. Single people who haven't see n a soul since March. People jeo have lost their livelihoods. I could go on