COVID-19: Too Soon?

As expected, the News media are trying to force the narrative by stating the Government will issue new guidelines and start to relax the lockdown from this weekend. The News this morning was filled with rumour pushing that narrative and comparing us with other countries like Germany who have had a better pandemic than us so who can ease the lockdown quicker than we can.

I assume the news services are virologists then, in that they have an expert eye on whether the lockdown should be eased and when.

This is yet another attempt by the media to force the Government's hand. By announcing an early relaxation, they make a story. If the Government capitulate and relax too early, then the media can castigate the government for it.

If the government fail to relax the lockdown at the weekend then that's another stick to beat the government with: "Why won't you relax the lockdown?".

Yet the media were only a couple of days ago announcing we had a worse death toll than Italy.

Two faced? Disingenuous? Yep, that's the British news media. It's about time they stopped making stories and got back to reporting on news.

The latest revelation about CBS in America using health centre staff to bump up the numbers of people in a COVID-19 testing line just shows how the modern media tray and manipulate the situation to create or maintain a narrative, rather than report on current situations without interference i.e. the news.