Dear Bbc

[douglas9401]

Please give Clive Myrie half an hour on one of your digital platforms so he can anchor a sob-fest with close-ups of distressed health workers being close-upped to tears and leave the six o'clock news for news.

That item was like watching the worst of American reality guff.

Shameless.

[DTCwordfan]

Ch 4 paraphrasing 'Even though the numbers today are terrible, it does like we are at the peak and on the way down?"

Answer NHS senior admin - 'yes... I think so' and then about the vaccinations being 'off peak', 'yes, we have to allow the supplies to come through but we did vaccinate over 220k people today.'

Just a balanced view allowed to be expressed.

[DTCwordfan]

and recognition of the staff and stress levels - all of this from a professor tied to the NHS. Come on Aunty Beeb, less of the left wing crap and get a better balance into what is going on out there on the frontline.

[DTCwordfan]

Having said that, the Panorama programme on how the Oxford vaccine was developed was superb...perhaps the criticism is at the News....

Now C4 is looking at the impact on Criminal Justice and that the system was in trouble before the virus hit....

[douglas9401]

No, Atheist, just a licence payer.

I'm sure there are any number of health professionals who are less on edge but still worthy of an interview.
This kind of stuff is better left to ITV or Channel5

[nailit]

//Anyway - the figures we are being fed are fibs. I now know 4 people who are furious that relatives who died recently were recorded as Covid - one had a massive heart-attack, but Covid went on the Cert.//
This really concerns me too.
Why the lies?

[iluvmargie]

My friend's Mum died in a care home last summer. My friend was told she did not have covid and yet it was put as cause of death on her death certificate! This is how the so called deaths are ramped up, but God knows why.

[douglas9401]

Beg pardon, that should have been fbg40

[New Judge]

//Sadly my friend, this IS the news//

No it isn’t. As I’ve said more than once on here, for the last nine months the BBC news has been simply a government propaganda programme designed to scare the population witless. Night after night there are scenes of intensive care units manipulating patients connected to machinery. Tonight there was even a scene inside a mortuary. This is not news. News is how many people have contracted the disease, how many have died, how many vaccinations have been administered and (which you never hear) how many people have recovered.

ICUs have no right to allow film crews into their premises. Hospitals are about the worst places for contracting the virus and to have film crews roaming around from place to place is simply madness and is irresponsible.

//do you think it wrong to report that NHS workers are suffering from overload//

Day after day, most certainly yes. Make a documentary about it if you want, but it’s not news. It’s obvious that health workers are under the cosh; we don’t need to be constantly told. It is now becoming counter- productive. I simply record the news now and fast forward all this guff. I doubt I’m alone.

[bobbinwales]

As a point of info the covid deaths figures are not based on what goes on the death certificate but yes if they had covid as well as heart attack it would count in thec covid figures. But read up on excess deaths. Still 90000.

[bobbinwales]

Nailit your lucky but not alone. So far most of is have been lucky as less than 10 million have had covid in UK but its growing by 50000 a day. So far 'only' 90000 have been unlucky to die but there not here to tell there anecdotes on Answerbank. They only needed to be unlucky once. At your age like me your vunerable. Take care. stay safe

[bobbinwales]

Sorry nailit , mine was for your post on lankeelas thread

[bobbinwales]

Ilovemargie seems to lack understanding of the scale of the problem and is using silly arguments to give the impression its all hype

[THECORBYLOON]

"It’s obvious that health workers are under the cosh; we don’t need to be constantly told."

What about those who believe it's all a big hoax?

What about those who believe it's okay to ignore the guidance and the legislation?

It appears they do need to be reminded about the facts on a daily basis.

[bobbinwales]

Agreed thecorbeyloon But there generally not going to even watch and certainly will see it as lies and reinforce there conspiracy view

[royfromaus]

It's why I watch Channel 4 - a much more balanced view of what is going on.
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[fbg40]

Douglas
This is the real life, get used to it. If you are that much against the BBC why do you watch it ?? I have 4 friends who have Covid - one is retired Fireman like me and works as a Healthcare Assistant, the other is a hospital secretary. The other two are , luckily, getting over it. They have seen first hand what it's like.
FBG40

[Peter Pedant]

it gets people watching

my shocka for the week was the poking and prodding of Saffie Roussos parents

[Togo]

It is gratifying to note that others are now beginning to take note of the skewed agenda and marxist content. Did you also know that by far the most complaints against the propaganda generators were complaints about bias against the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon than any other issue in the period from November 23 to December 6, 2020? Just saying.

[iluvmargie]

bonninwales - 'silly argument'? Are you for real? My friend's Mum did die in a care home, but not from covid, yet this was put on her death certificate. Mind you, the day I listen to anything that comes from your doom and gloom laden mouth is the day I pack it in - seriously. I wonder what on earth you will moan about when all this is over??? My opinion is vastly different to yours, but that does not make YOU right!

[New Judge]

//What about those who believe it's all a big hoax?

What about those who believe it's okay to ignore the guidance and the legislation?//

Do you really think that showing those people footage of people in ICUs will change the behaviour of such people, Corby?

//It appears they do need to be reminded about the facts on a daily basis.//

So more propaganda than news then?

Showing viewers near enough the same stuff night after night serves no purpose whatsoever. Once they've seen it a couple of times they do what I do, either don't watch it at all or skim through it.