Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
the fact that the UK has the worst (world leading!) per capita Covid figures in the World
I listen to a LOT of news from all quarters during the week and after masses of pretty poor easy hit reporting all round, at 5:15 on PM Evan Davies AT LAST offered a searching question that I for one really think needs looking into - that our per capita deaths are worst in the world BUT our per capita admission to hospital and admission to intensive care are well down the list, which by simple computation means the world's worst arises from the fact our survival rate in hospital is world's worst, so (I think he said) 'should we be worried? Is something going on?'. He asked this of an NHS rep who basically just said 'No', and without further interrogation Owen moved on! That is RUBBISH journalism, and failure to interrogate such issues IMO shows we can't trust those reporting to us. I also think this may stem from a reluctance to aim any criticism at NHS, if indeed they emerge culpable

The same applies to UK GDP being worse than anywhere else, again it is a factor of our way of measuring and again there's been a total failure to explain to the concerned population.

I'm not adopting a blindly pro-HMG anti-media stance, just pointing out that we aren't being well served at times