Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[mill]

More virulent but less likely to cause illness

I don’t see anything particularly scaremongering about this at all.

Just to provide some context to this. Bloomberg tweet roughly every 3-5 mins.

That’s around 300 tweets per day. This is the only one regarding covid.

And it’s not the only ‘breaking news’.

Turkey’s central bank cutting interest rates is also ‘breaking news’.

If you look at things in isolation then it seems bigger than it is. Particularly when there is no context.

(Edited as I hit send too soon).

 

[navidson]

Honestly not sure why we bother with a science budget in this country when you lot are readily available on this forum.

The science isn't the problem - it's the reporting of it

 

[tsubaki]

The science isn't the problem - it's the reporting of it

So if the media reported a vaccine-resistant version that was deemed to pose a big risk you’d all accept that?

 

[MikeH72]

Honestly not sure why we bother with a science budget in this country when you lot are readily available on this forum.

The science actually says that the “new variant” is less likely to cause serious illness if you’d bothered to look into it yourself, but that information is not included in the alarmist tweet, so there’s your difference between science and the media.

 

[grandjoeblue]

But those measures that were hailed as this amazing miraculous cure have clearly failed across Europe. And social distancing absolutely destroys businesses, if that's every year then much of hospitality will be gone. I think our thoughts that we can "control" a virus like this are being proven untrue

I do think we'll end up doing everything europe is doing though

Social distancing essentially is equal to a lockdown for the majority of hospitality businesses. Wonder if they'll bring back that rule where you put a mask on to go the toilet?

 

[grandjoeblue]

The science actually says that the “new variant” is less likely to cause serious illness if you’d bothered to look into it yourself, but that information is not included in the headline, so there’s your difference between science and the media.

Indeed. Clickbait is the media speciality in this country.

 

[MikeH72]

Indeed. Clickbait is the media speciality in this country.

Look into the science and you’ll find all your answers. Also down with Twitter.

 

[mill]

The science actually says that the “new variant” is less likely to cause serious illness if you’d bothered to look into it yourself, but that information is not included in the headline, so there’s your difference between science and media reporting.

It’s in the report. It also says that it’s too early to confirm the reason why it is less virulent as there are other factors that could account for fewer people with serious illness.

A headline is designed to attract attention by definition. If people only read the headlines then they are going to have a very skewed perspective of the situation.

There is nothing in the article that is scaremongering.

 

[MikeH72]

It’s in the report. It also says that it’s too early to confirm the reason why it is less virulent as there are other factors that could account for fewer people with serious illness.

A headline is designed to attract attention by definition. If people only read the headlines then they are going to have a very skewed perspective of the situation.

There is nothing in the article that is scaremongering.

No but the tweet is clearly designed to be alarmist, that’s the issue people are taking with it. They know most people will just scroll past it without actually reading the article. The tweet is textbook scaremongering.

 

[tsubaki]

No but the tweet is clearly designed to be alarmist, that’s the issue people are taking with it. They know most people will just scroll past it without actually reading the article. The tweet is textbook scaremongering.

“Textbook scaremongering” would be if that went out at a time there wasn’t a global pandemic going on.

 

[mill]

No but the tweet is clearly designed to be alarmist, that’s the issue people are taking with it. They know most people will just scroll past it without actually reading the article. The tweet is textbook scaremongering.

The tweet is designed to get people to read the article. Because that’s where the ads are.

If the headline was ‘absolutely nothing to report’ then people are even less likely to click.

I’m not sure what you expect but the article itself is balanced and fair.

 

[MikeH72]

“Textbook scaremongering” would be if that went out at a time there wasn’t a global pandemic going on.

Are you joking me here? The actual article itself basically clarifies that the new variant is less deadly than previous! The fact that isn’t mentioned in the tweet whatsoever means that yeah, it clearly is a tweet designed to alarm people.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Wonder if they'll bring back that rule where you put a mask on to go the toilet?

Oh that especially was awful. Cafes etc stopped being fun places for me in 2020.

 

[MikeH72]

The tweet is designed to get people to read the article. Because that’s where the ads are.

If the headline was ‘absolutely nothing to report’ then people are even less likely to click.

I’m not sure what you expect but the article itself is balanced and fair.

I’m not talking about the article am I? I read the article.

 

[Neiler]

But those measures that were hailed as this amazing miraculous cure have clearly failed across Europe. And social distancing absolutely destroys businesses, if that's every year then much of hospitality will be gone. I think our thoughts that we can "control" a virus like this are being proven untrue

I do think we'll end up doing everything europe is doing though

I don't think they have failed to be honest, if you compare Europe to the UK. The UK has had the most liberal measures. The UK surged during the summer, having 1000's on 1000's of cases competitively to the rest of Europe and pretty much has stayed at its peak. Europe is surging now, due to the seasonality of the virus, a surge always puts services under pressure, it did in the Uk and it is in Europe now, both have/will peak and will regress again over Christmas in my opinion. Do measures make a difference absolutely. One simple measure has the power if implemented correctly to reduce case numbers by a third. The UK case numbers could be cut drastically with some measures, but every country has different thresholds and priorites.