Would there, though? I think you are giving an awful lot of credit to the British press there.
What Pfizer has said is clear; what the requirements of the vaccination programme ultimately are (to **fully** vaccinate the population) are clear too.
I think it’s crazy that we’ve used this period to test an idea when we could have had two million extremely vulnerable people fully protected, and several million partially protected (with AZ).
I also TBH think it’s daft to think that a media as complicit in this disaster as ours are would ever report if it failed, especially given how much the right wing majority of it has crowed these past few days.
Yes, there would be. If we were seeing a lot of people who had their first doses dying, there would be a lot of press about it. It's a story, a new angle and one which would give credence to the stories which have been on major news sites.
We haven't really tested an idea. They've seen how grim it is and thought that the best way to suppress the virus - based on previous vaccines - is to get more people with more protection early on than less people with full protection.
We know other countries are doing it, we just are the ones who decided to push it to what seems the very extreme - but other countries haven't seen as many deaths as we have.
Don't be banging on about media bias, I can't be arsed. The last four articles I've seen in this thread are ones - quite fairly - bashing the government. It isn't a thing, neither side are ever happy and they're always convinced the media are against them.
You get some journos, some sites, yes, with a clear bias either way, but by and large the big organisations just report the news. You can look for anything to back up an argument. One of the most decisive is Peston, yet people on the right hate him, people on the left hate him, and people who are centrists seem to hate him too. Maybe he's just a prat, but it doesn't make him biased.
It's like people moaning about Captain Tom. "HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FUND THE NHS!!!"
He didn't 'fund the NHS'. He decided to do a nice thing and it caught on and people decided to donate. The NHS would have got by fine without the money he raised but the money he did raise went towards the NHS Charities Trust and that's great. If he hadn't had done it, the NHS or government or PHE wouldn't have been out asking for war veterans to walk around their gardens for a week. I saw someone whinging the other day that him going into hospital with covid was a headline in the paper, because there's been 100k deaths. It baffles me.
EDIT: Apologies, that media rant was less aimed at you, general thing. Should also note that the captain Tom thing was on Twitter - so my bad for even taking notice of it.
