The news has turned Covid posts down

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Is it just me or has anyone noticed that there isn’t much news on tv about Covid anymore. Also find it strange that some news online report that the schools going back hasn’t caused a spike. I find it odd as schools haven’t been back long…. Surely these people know it takes time for cases to multiply.

move away not nice seat!

Just because we are all sick of it doesn't mean that it's over - it's really not. Personally I'd like to be fully informed by the news...its not scare mongering if its the truth.
Also it's interesting how people are associating being fully informed with lockdowns ?

What I find odd is that, as the number of positive cases reported to us in the primary school where I work are going up, the gov.uk interactive map of cases for the local area is showing cases going down. Not sure how that works! Either there will shortly be a spike, or children are passing it to each other in school but not in the outside community. Or, people are doing lateral flow tests instead and not bothering with pcr tests when they ought to take them - we keep having to remind parents that lateral flow tests are not sufficient and we cannot record a child as having covid (or not having covid) until they have confirmed with the pcr. By the time parents have confirmed the positive result, it’s at least five days since the child got the symptoms!

The news is to report new things. They did pieces about children being offered vaccinations, and about travel, and vaccine passports etc, but these don't happen everyday. So if there's nothing new to say, what reports can they make?

@Walkaround

What I find odd is that, as the number of positive cases reported to us in the primary school where I work are going up, the gov.uk interactive map of cases for the local area is showing cases going down. Not sure how that works! Either there will shortly be a spike, or children are passing it to each other in school but not in the outside community. Or, people are doing lateral flow tests instead and not bothering with pcr tests when they ought to take them - we keep having to remind parents that lateral flow tests are not sufficient and we cannot record a child as having covid (or not having covid) until they have confirmed with the pcr. By the time parents have confirmed the positive result, it’s at least five days since the child got the symptoms!

Any of these situations could be true but I would think the govt or PHE are looking at hospital admissions as the true state of what is happening. So even if the covid positives don't reflect the real situation, hospital admissions will.

The energy crisis is a BIG story.

So is the labour shortage & the logistics / HGV & supply chain crisis.
France being serious pissed off at AUKUS.

Afghanistan has been a big story.

Govt reshuffle, leveling up agenda maneuvres, climate change... Brexit woes rumble on, too. Covid isn't actually the only situation or problem worth knowing about.

Schools haven't been back 3.5 weeks on all places. The schools here are just entering their 3rd week. The first week they didn't start until the Wednesday. So today is day 10.

I know what the op is saying. I did find it odd when the news was saying within days of kids going back that there was no spike. I also read it on friday when ds had been back at school for just over a week

I do think other news is far more important and we can't go on forever, but I do think it's interesting that, with covid, we have been able to see more of the governements agenda in the press.

You could see it wfh. Last year when they starting talking about urging people back to the office. The papers had lots of articles about how wfh, wasn't workinh for companies, how bad it was for people etc More and more stories about companies sending their workers back. The cases started rising and the governement wanted people to wfh and the papers stories were about how great wfh is.

And we have been in cycles like that. I noticed, yesterday there was a story about how the recent rise in cases were driven by lifting the wfh, so my guess is that government are expecting to implement it again over winter so starting to have stories ran about it.

Watching the press and government being so obvious about it, has been odd.

@gardeninggirl68

let it go....covid is no longer a big news issue

So profound ... thank you for your wise thoughts on this issue that is obviously no so important to you.

The media are creating the rhetoric it's been told to create.

Which is "crack on, all is well, world beating, save Pret and big business aka the Bullingdon set, waffle waffle"

What’s the obsession with Pret?

@Killeditwithkisses

Just because we are all sick of it doesn't mean that it's over - it's really not. Personally I'd like to be fully informed by the news...its not scare mongering if its the truth. Also it's interesting how people are associating being fully informed with lockdowns ?

But it is scaremongering we don’t get daily announcements of flu virus in the winter when that kills a lot . The media only report new news it’s not really news if the figures and deaths aren’t increasing hugely . You can check the figures daily yourself you don’t need it to be on the news .

Thank goodness! I've spent the past 18 months trying to 'find out more' about what's going on in the world aside from Covid! So many really significant things scarily under-reported. Time to shift the focus now I think. As ops have said the info is still available for those who want it (and they can interpret it in their own way rather than having it spun at them by the media!).

Maybe theres a load of other important things on the news now.

Concerns about empty shelves.
Inflation, how are people going to put food on their tables later this year.
Energy companies going bankrupt, bills going sky high and the possibility there may not be enough energy supply this winter.

@SingingGoldfinch

Thank goodness! I've spent the past 18 months trying to 'find out more' about what's going on in the world aside from Covid! So many really significant things scarily under-reported. Time to shift the focus now I think. As ops have said the info is still available for those who want it (and they can interpret it in their own way rather than having it spun at them by the media!).

I agree with this. The news is out there should anyone wish to look but it doesn't have to be the headline every day any more. People can come onto MN for their daily dose of extreme views and possibly a bit of misinformation or look up some reputable sources.

I want to know all about fuel cost rises and the C02 thing today.

Just turned GMB on. They are discussing two professional dancers on Strictly refusing to have the jab. So the 'news' about Covid is still out there...

Yes, the new doom mongering is photos of empty shelves and NO MEAT OR TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS haha
Oh and the energy price hikes . Happy days

Any data can be found on data dashboard or ONS weekly reports.

It tells you all you want to know in facts and figures. Surely better than a news article that has its bias and personal narrative?

Cases in school aged children are rising.

Cases overall seem to be in a small decline.

It's just a matter of priority. Afghanistan, AUKUS, gas shortages etc are more important. Now the world has opened up the press have something else to talk about, I'm fed up of other things being ignored because Covid has dominated the headlines. Now we can finally see and talk about the impact of Brexit.

You would expect two weeks to be enough for the school Armageddon predicted on here to be seen yes. I think the problem is so many are anti education it’s become not see if cases raise when schools go back k but wait until they raise and then use it to support an end to education. We didn’t see a big raise when Schools returned 8 March (again widely predicted on here) we haven’t this time. I know people who want to end education will now wait until cases go up and say “ look it’s schools” even when with everything else “it takes two weeks to see results” . It was the same in Scotland point out that the raise started before schools went back and it is ignored because it doesn’t fit with the shut schools agenda. But it is increasingly feeling to me that there is an “agenda” to keep kids out of education, which is worrying since no one has ever quite explained the “evidence” that bbc bitesize can produce the future doctors, scientists etc our country needs.

There is more to worry about than covid and it's irresponsible for the news to ignore that.

At the moment there are things happening which will affect people (particularly the vulnerable/those on low incomes, as usual) in a far more detrimental way than Covid. Most people are doubly vaccinated, many have already had covid too - so most people have a good degree of protection. Even the vulnerable.

What people don't have a good degree of protection against is rising food and fuel prices, food shortages and cuts to UC. It's a perfect storm which is going to cause tremendous hardship, and as a knock on effect, threat to health and wellbeing, in the coming months. There's no vaccination against poverty unfortunately, and the vulnerable are most likely to bear the brunt.

These stories are far more urgent and pressing than Covid right now. Only those who are insulated against poverty could possibly disagree.

I don't think 2 weeks back at school is enough.
If there's going to be a spike due to schools I would expect it at the end of this week or even next.

If it happens at all. We don't know until it happens or not. It was rife in ds school before summer. He was in 4 days of the last 4 weeks. So I would expect, it's not going to escalate again immediately.

So many kids had it, including ds, I can't imagine there's many that could catch it so soon again. But I don't know.

Theres only been one teacher who has tested positive So far this term.

Nor sure anyone saying there definitely will or definitely won't be a spike really knows. When schools go back it changes alot of peoples routines. That could also contribute to a back to school spike, even though the schools are responsible, iyswim.

It's pretty much the same where I am (not UK)
Covid tends to be about the 3rd or 4th story and is really (at the moment) the daily update on cases/deaths/icu/tests/vaccine numbers.
There needs to be middle ground between "it's all over" and "we're going to be dead by Christmas"
Though people do need to start acknowledging the cause-effect between everyone WFH and the economy tanking=price rises everywhere. It's still really part of the Covid coverage. Add in Brexit cause-effect and there's not much to dance about economy wise.

“New”-s, it’s in the word if it’s not “new” then they won’t keep reporting it.

But of course you are right, it’s a massive conspiracy of silence, Up here in the North we are stepping over bodies in the streets under the noses of paramilitaries with machine guns.. but the government are covering it up!

There needs to be middle ground between "it's all over" and "we're going to be dead by Christmas"

Couldn’t agree more.