Pay No Attention To This: UK DOWNGRADED CV Threat Over A Week Ago

It’s in the media’s best interest to hype up the danger of the COVID-19 virus as much as possible because it keeps millions of people glued to their seats watching the news. Playing the story like the one you posted, while would be a responsible and well balanced approach, is simply not in the best interest of the media outlets because it makes the virus sound less apocalyptic.

I’ve also become more convinced as time goes on that a lot of people enjoy the COVID-19 “crisis” because it adds some excitement to their boring lives. Those same people would much rather read an end of the world everyone is going to die story than a well balanced reasonable take on the subject.

Wrong. Hospitals in many places are already being overwhelmed by this. We are not waiting for a crisis to occur; rather, we are in the midst of it already. Just because it is not in your living room, of affecting your family directly, doesn't mean the problem is not real.

My sister-in-law works as a pediatric ER doctor in a hospital. The adult hospital next door is drawing on the pediatric docs as they lose personnel to illness, or simply need more doctors. They are running low on masks and equipment.

For most people not visiting hospitals every day, this virus looks like a slight inconvenience that makes you stay inside most of the day. The hospitals are where the cases that do exist get funneled. They are nodes where the enormity of this issue is clearly evident.

If you look at this through the lens of how many cases are distributed among the entire population of a vast country, it doesn't look so bad, and you will consistently underestimate the problem. If you consider the way the many severe cases that DO exist get concentrated in hospitals -- not the entire nation -- you can see those critical links in our social/medical system reaching the breaking point. That is why we need to take these measures to limit the rapidity of the spread of this illness.

I do find it interesting that when I googled this, I found the official statement that I posted, and two small blog posts, and no other media links. Now I would think that some of the bigger media outlets, like the London Times, BBC, even NYT, would have people who are checking government sites like this with considerable interest at this time, on a continuous basis. If i hadn't heard it mentioned on an independent podcast it would have escaped my notice. I'm not claiming conspiracy here, but definitely willful ignorance on the part of mainstream media. This is a huge story, one which could affect the level of due caution exercised by government and private resources, yet it is effectively buried by omerta. Meanwhile heart-wrenching pictures of young victims, clearly outliers for this disease, go viral overnight, notching up the panic one more point....

The problem is real to every middle class family due to the reaction by Government officials. They put people out of work and out of as school and caused the stock market to crash. The rich and the poor are nearly unaffected. As far as healthcare worker impacts, in my area the doctors and nurses have seen their hours cut because people are cancelling appointments even though we have 0 hospitalizations. Most hospitals in the country are experiencing the same thing.

What are you all talking about? Are you trying to create your own echo-chamber?

This was reported in multiple outlets over the past week. My first 20 google results for "coronavirus hcid" are from various American and European media outlets.

It's no longer an HCID because the CFR isn't as high as some more lethal diseases, and we can detect it rapidly with testing (among other things).

That doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

You think BoJo isn't aware of the reclassification or something? He tried as hard as he could to stick his head in the sand like you guys--but in the end, he still got the right information. You guys must have incredibly heavy, impermeable sand?

Meanwhile on the BBC this morning.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52081389

Rachel1 wrote:

Meanwhile on the BBC this morning.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52081389

There was also 38,000 car fatalities last year in the US alone.

9,000 cancer deaths so far in the year 2020 in the US

4.2 million diabetes related deaths world wide last year.

H1N1 infected an estimated 60 million Americans and killed over 12,000 Americans.

You see if we start counting the death rate for every disease or sickness how scary it can get?

one thought wrote:

What are you all talking about? Are you trying to create your own echo-chamber?

This was reported in multiple outlets over the past week. My first 20 google results for "coronavirus hcid" are from various American and European media outlets.

It's no longer an HCID because the CFR isn't as high as some more lethal diseases, and we can detect it rapidly with testing (among other things).

That doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

You think BoJo isn't aware of the reclassification or something? He tried as hard as he could to stick his head in the sand like you guys--but in the end, he still got the right information. You guys must have incredibly heavy, impermeable sand?

I googled "coronavirus hcid" and got two mainstream hits: the Washington Times and the Scotsman, A third hit was for the Daily Wire, which I wouldn't consider as a mainstream media source, but for the sake of inclusion we'll count it as a third. All three articles were published a week after the statement. The rest of the hits were for topics unrelated to the actual CV statement. Maybe your version of google operates differently, but in my book three brief, latent articles is hardly a mainstream media spotlight of this important policy statement.

No axe to grind here; my area is on a "shelter in place order" and I observe one trip outside each day for a run or for groceries, social distancing, hand washing etc.. But I have several friends who have lost their jobs, and my job has been seriously affected as well, and I am certainly going to keep my eye on the ball in this entire fiasco.

But feel free to pay NO ATTENTION WHATSOEVER.

Cool 8chan distraction story bro.

Rachel1 wrote:

Cool 8chan distraction story bro.

Don’t know what that means

No surprise there.

YMMV wrote:

Maybe your version of google operates differently

I'm not sure whether this is bait. On the off-chance it's not: everybody's "version of google operates differently"--that's part of why the algorithm is as successful as it is. If you make a point of getting your content from infowars and blogs, your searches will return stuff like infowars and blogs. I'm not saying this is what you do, but your history on the board does suggest to me you're not actually consuming media in the way most Americans do. Most, in fact, probably get most of their content by clicking on links on various social media platforms, right? So their google results will no doubt look different from yours. I don't actually use social media, and I read various media outlets (of widely diverging agendas and massive total circulation) from around the globe--if that describes your basic online presence as well, then we'd have to dig deeper to figure out why we're getting different results.

Here is the recommendation now being given by gov.uk, the same site the OP linked to:

Stay at home

Only go outside for food, health reasons or work (but only if you cannot work from home)

If you go out, stay 2 metres (6ft) away from other people at all times

Wash your hands as soon as you get home

Do not meet others, even friends or family.

You can spread the virus even if you don’t have symptoms.

Do you disagree with any of that, YMMV, or are you going full anti-vaxxer?

energeticlotuseater wrote:

Rachel1 wrote:

Meanwhile on the BBC this morning.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52081389

There was also 38,000 car fatalities last year in the US alone.

9,000 cancer deaths so far in the year 2020 in the US

4.2 million diabetes related deaths world wide last year.

H1N1 infected an estimated 60 million Americans and killed over 12,000 Americans.

You see if we start counting the death rate for every disease or sickness how scary it can get?

Yeah. It’s not a vacuum, you total Moran.

u no nowt wrote:

energeticlotuseater wrote:

There was also 38,000 car fatalities last year in the US alone.

9,000 cancer deaths so far in the year 2020 in the US

4.2 million diabetes related deaths world wide last year.

H1N1 infected an estimated 60 million Americans and killed over 12,000 Americans.

You see if we start counting the death rate for every disease or sickness how scary it can get?

Yeah. It’s not a vacuum, you total Moran.

The point is we live in a world where there are unfortunately a lot of things that can hurt us. This hasn’t stopped us from living our lives and this shouldn’t virus either, especially since COVID-19 is not as harmful as the things I’ve mentioned above

Keep in mind most of the talking heads you see in the media have very safe jobs at this point (even safer consider everyone and their mother are watching the news 24/7) However those of us who don’t have safe jobs (most of us if the economy continues to be shutdown) will be bankrupt in 4 months if the lockdown continues that long as many COVID alarmists would like.

There definitely appears to be a large group of people that get off on absolute worse case scenarios, and if anyone points to a study or reported numbers that say anything other than this is the end of the world, they go ape $chitt crazy, on the person with the good news.