Who else is sick of the hysteria?

[Suranjeep]

There must be others? Time to tighthen ofcom rules, and clamp down on mis or sensationalist reporting in newspapers, online, TV, Radio etc.

Granny killers, look into their eyes, covidiots, hype over figures, over reporting, under reporting, selective reporting, anti vaxxers, selfish non maskers, etc etc is goes on and on.

There would probably be better compliance for rules etc if this hadnt become a circus of hystera and hyperbole.

/rant over

I am worried at the moment, however...

If they really want us to get used to the idea of "living with covid" then they need to stop the daily reporting of cases.

We, the general public, can do fuck all about the number of cases.

People who don't care will continue to do as they are doing.

People who do will curtail their own freedoms and cause/exacerbate mental health problems for themselves and their children.

If we have to live with this and treat it like flu then get it off the news.

Just stop!

I'm very happy for daily report omg today go, once we have literally got over the worst with covid.
Imagine right now if we didn't have known figures, but we get suspicious tell tale signs eg the rest of the world won't let us in, pcr tests take ages and ages to get back, all routine hospitals are cancelled.. But we don't know what's going on..

No

That would be insanity.

Totally agree.

The numbers should be presented in context, cases presented with % of people actually ill at that time.

Hosptial cases presented as % of cases admitted because of covid versues those with covid or found to have it in hospital.

Same with deaths, in context with all other deaths reported that 24 hours, all reasons.

Deaths changed to be annual rather than cumulative, other death reasons arent presented as a running total from the year dot in the same way,

I've heard if you ignore things they just go away, so yeah, your plan sounds great!

There’s just so much hyperbole around. I can’t make myself care any more.

In the long term I think this will end up having been counterproductive. Next time a “hard hitting” campaign for something important like drink driving comes along it won’t have the same impact because people have been manipulated so much since March 2020.

Sky seemed to be breathlessly underwhelmed by whatever the case numbers were today as they weren't rolling endlessly under the news this evening.

Hoping this is the new normal...

Well said, OP - the hysteria is stoked by endlessly referring to ‘cases’ - totally out of context. Very dispiriting that people are so “lacking in logic or critical thinking.

@CathyorClaire

Sky seemed to be breathlessly underwhelmed by whatever the case numbers were today as they weren't rolling endlessly under the news this evening.

Hoping this is the new normal...

Let’s hope.

Yes pretty much

Yeah. I have just watched a press conference held this afternoon by some of the world's most eminent scientists concerned about the situation in the UK - total bunch of hysterics - the lot of them

Me. This is why I don't watch the news or anything like that. My local rag would often post headlines such as "100% increase in cases" when it was 1 case going up to 2.

@OuiOuiKitty

I've heard if you ignore things they just go away, so yeah, your plan sounds great!

I didnt say ignore it.

I suggested dropping the hystera and presenting things in context rather than sensationalist reporting

Don't bother listening to the news, it's a load of nonsense, fear sells newspapers and makes for good viewing figures.
The fear of covid is worse than the actual virus itself.

I’m with ya.

This is their moment! Feels like when the hysteria ends they lose their 15 mins of fame. Goodness just delete the app, get vaccinated, wear a mask on public transport and if you have a cold don’t test and spread the misery just stay at home. Still have no idea who bothers to test their kids abs shit down schools when they have a sore throat for 5 mins. Jesus get a grip people!!

@Moonface123,I think you might be right

There seems to be a lot of posters on here who believe everything they hear or read on MSM. The lack of context and amount of sensationalism in the media seems to get vacuumed up and posted on here as complete fact when actually it’s utter BS. Are the current COVID hospital figures based on admissions or people who are admitted for other issues then after a day or two test positive? This is one element which is bothering me at the moment, the lack of transparency and poor journalism is astonishing.

In the long term I think this will end up having been counterproductive. Next time a “hard hitting” campaign for something important like drink driving comes along it won’t have the same impact because people have been manipulated so much since March 2020

I suspect this is already happening with the carry-on about the NHS "not being able to cope", not helped by almost the exact same dire warnings appearing every winter for the last however many years

It worked in spring 2020 because we genuinely didn't know what we were dealing with, but it's becoming a little thin now, and in any case I'm convinced a lot of the narrative's driven by a firm intention to privatise it wholesale

Yep, the hysteria is absolutely ridiculous. More and more people are seeing it for the complete farce it is.

I don't watch the news anymore. Any news I get is from Twitter and I know a lot of it is BS.

I have anxiety so I know that the media will just make it worse. You have to look inside, outside and round the back of every headline these days. Quite often what is presented is not quite what has actually happened.

Unrelated to Covid-19, I work for TfL and one headline read, from the BBC no less, that Tube staff were going on strike. This was not quite correct. Tube train operators were going on strike, not Tube station staff. There is a distinct difference. But the BBC didn't make that distinction.

A lot of Sky News headlines just make me . So sensational and stretching the truth. BBC can be just as bad. I just gave up on all of it.

They should announce people who have died of covid against people who have died of anything else! And yes am a bit pissed and pissed off with it all! Sadly lots of people die every day but we haven’t ever reported that have we ..

@Cantstandsmugness

They should announce people who have died of covid against people who have died of anything else! And yes am a bit pissed and pissed off with it all! Sadly lots of people die every day but we haven’t ever reported that have we ..

Daily Covid death figures keeps people scared. That is what the gov want.

The nhs hasn’t coped for years. That’s the sad truth. The NHS killed my father in February through their total incompetence. Separately he caught Covid in hospital ( and was totally asymptotic), he died because they gave him the wrong medicine and he slowly bled to death. Guess what was on his death certificate?? Yup. Covid

@Suranjeep

There must be others? Time to tighthen ofcom rules, and clamp down on mis or sensationalist reporting in newspapers, online, TV, Radio etc.

Granny killers, look into their eyes, covidiots, hype over figures, over reporting, under reporting, selective reporting, anti vaxxers, selfish non maskers, etc etc is goes on and on.

There would probably be better compliance for rules etc if this hadnt become a circus of hystera and hyperbole.

/rant over

To be honest the media has been shit for a long time now - Brexit, elections, Megxit, there are multiple examples of the worst kind of sensationalism. We all deserve better than this.

@XenoBitch,Why? I agree but I dont know why.