Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
This is where people power comes in. Ripping into Boris is the surest way to undermine the only person who is brave enough to decide that Sage is making calculations that are not based on facts and argue that in cabinet.
If you want to change things, I think giving Boris a chance to play to the people is a good idea, provided the Omicron variety is genuinely less deadly than the delta one.
MSM seem to be completely sold on Omicron being a bigger killer than Delta. Where us the evidence?
The evidence coming out of South Africa is that the Omicron variant is a milder strain of the Covid-19 virus with less deaths than the Delta variant.
However MSN do not like to publish this news as they like to dramatise their news to make it sound a lot worse than it is.
To give you a slightly different example of this.
I have just read the headlines on the Business news section of the BBC teletext. There is a topic with the headlines stating that the price of MvVitie’s hobnob biscuits are set to soar. When you read the topic in full it states that the price of McVitie’s hobnobs, Jaffa cakes and penguin biscuits are set to rise by 5%. This is hardly soaring in price but the BBC likes to make their headlines worse than what they are.
Stupid headlines like this are liable to cause panic buying in the biscuit aisles of supermarkets.