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The news has turned Covid posts down

115 replies

Islandcircle4 · 20/09/2021 22:39

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.

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Sparklingbrook · 21/09/2021 11:28

All of which stem from Covid!

Nope.

Stasiland · 21/09/2021 12:00

Read the thread on here for NHS workers. Have some bl*y compassion. It's nowhere near over.

Ted27 · 21/09/2021 12:24

@NannyAndJohn

No, those issues do not stem from Covid

KurtWilde · 21/09/2021 13:23

@NannyAndJohn

No, they don't.

marieantoinehairnet · 21/09/2021 14:47

Well today the news are saying "Boris says..." we won't have no hearing or food, he promises, quite contrary to what Kwazi is banging on about with his "hard winter"...

I mean, when Boris promises it won't be a hard winter you know it bloody well will be

BIoodyStupidJohnson · 21/09/2021 14:51

I think covid isn't necessarily compatible with the 24-hour news cycle. So if there's not much 'happening', there's not much to report beyond speculation and punditry. And if there's a collective will to start moving on even if the threat isn't over, per se this will be reflected in the news stories.

Basically, if people aren't reading the covid articles as much any more, the press will gradually publish fewer of them.

Pokhora · 21/09/2021 14:53

@Sparklingbrook

All of which stem from Covid!

Nope.

I was quite surprised that even the daily mail is now admitting the problems are in part brexit related.
The news has turned Covid posts down
Porridgealert · 21/09/2021 15:12

@marieantoinehairnet

Well today the news are saying "Boris says..." we won't have no hearing or food, he promises, quite contrary to what Kwazi is banging on about with his "hard winter"...

I mean, when Boris promises it won't be a hard winter you know it bloody well will be

Boris has promised we won't have any hearing or food?!! This is going to be a really crap winter. Will we get our hearing back in the spring? 🤞
marieantoinehairnet · 21/09/2021 15:14

My error, heating not hearing, rather freeze my bollocks off than be deaf

Chillychangchoo · 21/09/2021 15:24

Thank fuck for that.

Living with covid doesn’t mean we need to be bombarded with daily news on the subject.

Porridgealert · 21/09/2021 15:28

we won't have no hearing or food, he promises,

But if he promises there will be no food, surely he's saying it WILL be a hard winter so I don't really understand your post.

TheGrumpyGoat · 21/09/2021 16:04

@Porridgealert

we won't have no hearing or food, he promises,

But if he promises there will be no food, surely he's saying it WILL be a hard winter so I don't really understand your post.

We won’t have no heating or food is a double negative, which makes a positive. So that sentence means we will have heating and food.
User135644 · 21/09/2021 16:07

I don't think Covid will be top of the agenda until winter when the NHS is up shit creek again, especially if combined with a bad flu season (or a vaccine escaping variant).

marieantoinehairnet · 21/09/2021 16:30

Thanks grumpy, as a northerner we do like a double negative

He's basically saying we will have food snd heating and not to worry, and Kwazi is saying it's gonna be a hard winter

I know who I believe snd it isn't Doris

Porridgealert · 21/09/2021 16:39

Ahh, I see. Sorry. I'm a northerner. It's quite common round here to say a double negative to mean a negative. But I can Boris wouldn't speak like that. Lol.

marieantoinehairnet · 21/09/2021 17:00

No apparently certain dialects use it more, fascinating!

User135644 · 21/09/2021 17:11

I think with Covid it's the calm before the storm (as it was last August/September).

AFuturisticalSound · 21/09/2021 17:11

[quote Ted27]**@NannyAndJohn

No, those issues do not stem from Covid[/quote]
How are the gas price increases linked to Covid @NannyAndJohn?

I've read quite a bit about it and it's not an issue that's being mentioned as a factor in MSM that I've seen

TheKeatingFive · 21/09/2021 17:13

How are the gas price increases linked to Covid @NannyAndJohn?

Please tell us. I really want to hear the reasoning.

Is the noisy data involved?

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NannyAndJohn · 21/09/2021 17:36

@User135644

I think with Covid it's the calm before the storm (as it was last August/September).
Yep. The case numbers are simmering away on a medium-high heat, about to be brought to the boil.
NannyAndJohn · 21/09/2021 17:38

Well given Covid (and our government's response to it) has completely fucked our economy, I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest it as a cause of multiple companies imploding.

Porridgealert · 21/09/2021 17:42

Its linked to covid because of the huge demand from the far east now that economies are starting to move again. Before the pandemic, demand was steady and supply met the demand. But the sudden surge in demand means that the has producers can't meet that demand so supply is low so gas prices rise.

Sparklingbrook · 21/09/2021 17:43

Yep. The case numbers are simmering away on a medium-high heat, about to be brought to the boil

Such drama. Hmm