The government's own Office for National Statistics is periodically publishing an Infection Survey. The latest one shows that the estimated number of new infections per week has gone up to 29,700. But that is still infinitesimally small as a percentage of the population of (let's say) 65 million....0.045% !
I am fed up with the media parroting headline numbers about deaths, without doing some basic research that would set this in context.
We have truly lost our sense of proportion.
I totally agree about the media, particularly the broadcast media. They are not ignorant, they know exactly what they are doing. Not only are they are not broadcasting facts, they are actively suppressing and smearing the voices of reason, they are ANTI-FACTS! Some might say “fake news”. Their hero is Nicola Sturgeon, a dreadful spiteful authoritarian autocrat. In their eyes she’s just ‘fandabidozi’! Scotland has recorded no new deaths for 3 weeks yet she made the ludicrous decision to place a lockdown on the poor folk of Aberdeen. The new Wuhan it ain’t! Sturgeon even made comments about how annoyed and disappointed she was that some young people congregated in Scottish pubs and bars recently. Who could blame them? Especially in the middle of Summer. They must feel like they’re on day release from Broadmoor prison, if they organised an all-night rave I wouldn’t judge them too harshly at this point. Factor in to the equation the ludicruous & fascist new hate speech laws and you have a recipe for mass rebellion in Scotland. But the broadcast media would have you believe they are being unreasonable, and petty tyrants like Sturgeon are left with no choice. Unfortunately our spineless poll-obsessed UK government have started to tread a similar path in recent weeks and the disgraceful media just keeps pushing them to more extreme measures. It makes my blood boil to see recent stories about the economic damage covered by the likes of Sky and BBC without a hint of irony. THEY played a massive part in extending and exacerbating lockdown measures and now these charlatans want to pretend they care about the little guy whose business has been destroyed. I guess the only thing we can do to teach these despicable liars a lesson is to not view (or click on) any of their output, wherever possible. I hope their ratings start to plummet!
One thing I would take issue with regarding the infection rate (and i’m not impugning your research) is the time period. Are you sure it’s not 29,000 per month? I’ve looked at recent reports from the Evening Standard (not the most KBF friendly paper i’m sure you’d agree) that show the new cases per day averaging 850 to 900. This would result in roughly 6,000 new cases per week, so i’m a bit confused. Nonetheless appreciate the post and I totally agree with the sentiment.