A new name for the UK - Plague Island

vampirequeen

Our media censors what we see and hear. I watch the UK news and a friend in South Africa sends me links to relevant news stories. It's fascinating to see/hear what we're not told. For example, long covid isn't iust about breathlessness and fatigue, it's about heart conditions, blindness, a shingles like condition, in fact anything that can go wrong when the immune system is compromised.

Sorry vampirequeen, I think every rag and TV news channel in the UK has been telling us about the other connected illnesses for months now. And do has half the population of gransnet.

The whole travel ban was caused by our scurrilous media over hyping the new strain virus, it was discovered many months ago in Brazil and is circulating in many countries. Are we worse than any other country?, probably not, but they have responsible media.

Our media censors what we see and hear. I watch the UK news and a friend in South Africa sends me links to relevant news stories. It's fascinating to see/hear what we're not told. For example, long covid isn't iust about breathlessness and fatigue, it's about heart conditions, blindness, a shingles like condition, in fact anything that can go wrong when the immune system is compromised.

This has been known for some time. It's a step-up from it being classed as a " cess-pit " a few months ago ! As said by Dr Richard North ( author and blogger ) when referring to Brexit.

I think the user name tells you all growstuff

Can blame the overseas news if it was the other way round our press would have just the same vitriolic headlines
Walk on by

trueblue22

Typical for The Guardian but it's not all doom & gloom. I just had this sent to me and gives me so much hope

What do you mean? Typical of the Guardian to report what newspapers in other countries are reporting? That's what journalists are supposed to do.

I've only just come back to GN this evening having been working for most of the day and hadn't realised that the same subject is being discussed on the Corona virus section. I don't often look at that.

Typical for The Guardian but it's not all doom & gloom. I just had this sent to me and gives me so much hope