Re: Is this a coincidence with Brexit?
Originally Posted by
Tedc
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I think that we still, in spite of what's visibly happening, put too much trust in what the Media (or Politicians) tell us about.
Many Countrymen claim to have "Discovered it first", "Handled lockdowns Better", had a "better set of Politicians in charge", "released the information earlier", "Got the Vaccine out there quickest".
We have learned, as we go along that we should be counting virus responsible deaths, not all deaths.
We have learned that the counting systems & tracking systems may not be all the same, but take the word of the Politicians.
China must be top of the league if we believe the political output !
Much has been learned.
We'll see what happens next!
Notice:- If you think this is all rubbish, please suggest it in a gentlemanly way!
Like JBR in the post above, I must agree with you.
The way deaths are counted here in the UK is little short of ridiculous; it varies tremendously from country to country; and the suggestion that any one person could be responsible to any meaningful degree for deaths caused or avoided by a virus is simply ludicrous.
Short of legally-enforced strict curfews until a full immunisation programme becomes effective there is no way to control a virus.
A virus spreads from person to person (one way or another, and similarly for other creatures) and adapts (or mutates) as it spreads and ages.
These mutations are the most probable major cause for higher death rates in some places, far more than any intervention from mere humans - as the recently-publicised UK variation is surely making quite obvious.
Our media are IMHO again guilty of gross misrepresentation, just as they are in other areas which I'd better not name here for fear of derailing the thread.
But why can't the media
report instead of putting unnecessary and potentially damaging "spin" on such important matters?
There is no deed for it.
None whatsoever.
They are damaging themselves by making us distrust their output, as the BBC are discovering to their cost.
So no Tedc, it isn't rubbish.
Though sadly I fully expect someone to disagree with what I have said in an attempt to suggest that it is.