Would you prefer if the media just ignored it?
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YoboCopter
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Do you not think this is one of those scenarios where people grasp the seriousness of the issue so that they don’t ignore it and that public awareness in that case is a good thing.
I appreciate you might be bored of it like.
Chewbacca
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They already do too much testing. Less testing, less reported cases (not fewer deaths though). An intellectual giant came up with this theory.
Tea_drinker
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The media these days rely on hits to raise revenue through advertising so it's in their interest to continuously pump out OTT scaremongering attention seeking headlines and stories at a phenomenal rate. These attract the terrified and the circle goes on.
Kenshin
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Remember in the first month and all you saw online was death stories designed to scare people?
They were literally posts from Facebook and Twitter and the like, even just giving pages. Very few were actually sourced from hospitals/families .
Literally the media were taking the news from a Facebook post and making it a headline.
Tea_drinker
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Im not a member of Facebook but people I know tell me that a load of people get their hysterical opinions on all matters from nonsense posted by idiots and bots on facebook. In all honesty its the gullibility of the general public that is the scariest thing in all of this virus situation.
There's a difference between ignoring and creating fear.
There are lots of people of who are still terrified of the virus and we need to help them so that they feel comfortable going back to work and getting back out and about. The media could certainly do better to help with this.
I'm a little tired of the wealth v health debate. It's not a debate. They are so closely linked that one cannot be separated from the other. We need to save lives and save jobs. It's not one or other, it has to be both. We need people to get back to work so the economy does not completely collapse and we create millions more who are left extremely vulnerable. I think we are heading for economic hardship on a scale none of us have seen before.
NilSatisOptimum
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Don't think the behavior of the media has made this a bigger crisis, in fact believing this is also very tin foil social media fodder.
We as a society thankfully have people who significant serious health conditions having full and active lives, well up until this virus appeared...
So its not just older frail people, its also about younger people who up to recently had been encouraged out into the workplace rather than languishing at home on benefits...
Kenshin
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It certainly amplified it at the beginning yeah.
It's one of those double edged swords because the magnitude of the situation has to be portrayed to really hit home at the start that we all had to stay indoors. At the same time when the 'news' is being sourced from social media then it's creating hysteria as well.
I've always been a firm believer that the media has used scare tactics all through this. Running stories without substance to frighten people , from some of the more bizarre like bald people being more suseptible to ways in which they can scare you about kids getting it when the figures weren't there to show it.
I suppose it's the fine balance that needs to be found. To convey the seriousness of a pandemic but in a right way. English media certainly didn't get that balance right.
tsubaki
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The worst thing the media have done is (as they did over Iraq) they’ve spent ages talking about everything that’s come from Government orifices rather than the real issues causing the country to be hit worse than others.
We needed an effective track, trace and test system before this happened that can quickly. To prevent a second lockdown, we needed one setting up between March and now. It hasn’t happened. If we had one, it would not be necessary to lock down - we’d be able to identify new clusters and get them isolated and treated.
Instead the media have repeatedly cited “game-changing” developments, blamed literally everyone else in the country when it goes wrong and have cheerleaders of the anti lockdown movement anyway.
We needed an effective track, trace and test system before this happened that can quickly. To prevent a second lockdown, we needed one setting up between March and now. It hasn’t happened. If we had one, it would not be necessary to lock down - we’d be able to identify new clusters and get them isolated and treated.
Instead the media have repeatedly cited “game-changing” developments, blamed literally everyone else in the country when it goes wrong and have cheerleaders of the anti lockdown movement anyway.
I used to watch the daily press conference at the start but it turned into a farce pretty quickly. The first few journalists would ask exactly the same question on repeat. Then they would try and lure the medical advisors into answering overtly political questions. A complete waste of time and helped confuse the public rather than inform.
arminisgod
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Eat out last night and it was rammed. Managed to just get in somewhere tonight but most were booked up.
If say rishi's scheme is a success
If say rishi's scheme is a success
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