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Coronavirus - political views - supporting or otherwise...

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Kaz said:
I think they should always have an expert present and vary them to cover different specialties and perspectives.

Would also do something to assuage the notion that political decisions are overruling scientific advice.
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After three months and over 70 briefings what exactly has not been covered?

I would be really interested to know having watched all but two of those briefings.

In support of my point is the fact that the two I have missed are both very recent. There is increasingly less information about the virus, its treatment and how to reduce the chances of contracting it. Just daily stats.
 
Kaz said:
They tend to be very banal but if you're going to have them you need to hear from the experts to get a more rounded view than the politicians can (or are willing to) provide. I know it doesn't go down well on here but they could learn a lot from the Scottish daily updates and try to replicate the way those come over.
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Sorry but you still haven't suggested what topics have not been covered.

We have had representatives of each of the emergency services, the nursing profession, statisticians, members of SAGE, Chief Medical Officer, Government Scientific Adviser, NHS, PHE, various deputies.

And despite all this expertise being available to them the media continue to ask the same, generally irrelevant questions and don't even bother listening to the answers.
 
Foxholer said:
One has to do one's best to educate the plebs doesn't one! :cool:
Fortunately, the accent of those of us that dislike/hate podians doesn't feature in text! ;)
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Podians. That's a tough one, Podia is the plural of Podium so infers a number or collection of Podium, I guess Podians are people who support multiple podiums or Podia. Or is it related to the treatment of the feet or Podiatry. Beats me. I'll get me coat.
 
Old Skier said:
Give

Wasn't deranged last time I looked, I'm also grown up enough to have noticed for years that politicians of all persuasions only give the answers they want.

Accused by one poster of being racist and another as being deranged. This forum gets more like arrse every week.

Could be worse, I could be a grandad ?
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Or bald and/or tattooed.
 
Kaz said:
Just giving the opinion that they should be there and giving relevant updates on their areas of expertise. Don't care about the questions; they've been a mixed bag but the politicians don't answer them anyway.

Pretty clear they've been dropped because they won't necessarily toe the party line.
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But what updates are there to give beyond numbers of tests, new cases, hospitalisations, R factor and deaths.

Don't need scientists etc. for that unless there is a major movement in the figures.

As to your last sentence I would ask "What party line?"

Only when announcing a new policy for dealing with the virus and its consequences could there be said to be such a thing.
 
Kaz said:
I just think it'd be nice if the daily briefing about the public health crisis included some public health experts and not just politicians.

You're entitled to an opposing view.
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Yes, but only a pro-government view will not be questioned.;)
 
rulefan said:
And what do you expect them to say that they haven't said before?
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I agree

That is the job of the local/regional PHE officials. As the country moves to more targeted action the 'national' policy becomes less relevant.

While still very serious the projected course of Covid-19 is relatively stable so daily briefings are less about the science and more about the tactical changes. Since the journalists insist the questions remain blind the relevant expert attending may not be the right one. The questions are largely political traps by the egocentric broadcasters.
I think the briefings should be twice weekly
 
If you question the current opposite partys lack of view the stock reply is "they aren't in government". This country needs a decent opposition yet once again we get a party with a massive divide and a leader who needs to bang some heads together.
 
Old Skier said:
If you question the current opposite partys lack of view the stock reply is "they aren't in government". This country needs a decent opposition yet once again we get a party with a massive divide and a leader who needs to bang some heads together.
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Lack of views on what? That stock answer, as you call it, has only been given in respect to Covid-19 and that is because we were told time and time and time again that this wasn’t the time for Party politics as we were facing an unprecedented challenge and we should all get behind the Government.
 
AmandaJR said:
Question to the shadow education minister - "what would you have done differently if you were in power?"..."set up a task force" :rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Maybe he should of said “dithered, change the rules, ignore the rules, go back on our word, change our mind and talk about the opposition” :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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