Does any1 else feel that all this outdoor reporting: from beaches, outside Hospitals, showing how Cities are empty : is a non-essential journey 
? I'm sick of seeing journalists and police walking along beaches which are supposedly empty, showing us how it 'should' be at the same time telling us that we are allowed to exercise. Well no, journalists and associated camera crews should not be standing outside Hospitals ......... if they want 2 issue an update on Boris it can be sent to Matt Hancock for release at 5.00 p.m.!
Also, that MP who travelled from London to see his parents in Shropshire as they needed food and medicines then went to Herefordshire to join his family ....... again, 1 rule for them and we are being told otherwise . A 40 mile journey is not essential, when the public are being told not to travel more than 5 miles from home?
I think it was/is important to show the empty places in case people had the idea they would sneak off and surely there must be other people doing it. Well actually no, and the imnages prove it ( although could have been taken at dawn!).
Noone has said we are only to travel 5 miles from home? Where did you get that idea? There has been no limit put on where you should drive either for your shopping or to park for your exercise. For the latter the Goivt has said close to home but steered clear of any definition. As for distance for visiting elderly relative who also lives in village without shops, eg shopping as I do, well that's about 15 miles and no-one would tell someone not to do that. Also we live further than 5 miles from a shop so it is patently absurd to put any form of distance restriction, which is why they haven't. 40 miles is pushing it but if the elderly parents had no other way of getting their food and medicines fair enough, although most people can call on help relatively locally.
It's done to keep us scared. Scared people do as they are told. 
I watch minimal media coverage. It's saturation and I'm sick of it.
We have reason to be scared with the frightening amount of deaths happening daily and no clear end to this crisis. Of course we should do what we're told otherwise this thing will claim more of us before our time.
Well said Dorothy,the news is practically on a loop these days,I'm with you,we DO NOT NEED to see people in wards coughing and in distress,WE GET IT!! They don't show you in normal times,people dying from cancer and heart disease so why this?
No many people don't seem to get it (jaypo excluding you and all of us here on the forum ie you and we do get it!!). Every single death before thier time is harrowing and a tragedy for someone somewhere. Although it is distressing it is not possible to imagine how ill people can get from this virus without the reminders and CLKD, people will have given their consent to be shown on TV if they are identifiable, in fact people have asked to share their stories.
I think we should be shown more. I mean in italy we were shown the lorry convoys of trucks with bodies and temporary mortuaries being set up etc. I know that sounds morbid but it brings it home to people, and practically, what is being done in UK about this? It is really quite scary. Then we hear some politicians talking about easing the lockdown because of the economic impact of continuing for weeks and in some form for months. NO WAY!
I must say I've been watching the daily briefings although I get bored by the questions, and keep up with all the stats on twitter as well as trying to read the latest science (digestible version!).
The deaths from apparent covid will be from the death certs from doctors if it is suspected, which is quite reasonable at the moment. There will have to be grounds for suspecting that. These are reflected in the weekly stats from ONS. I linked to that on another thread but don't ask me which one
there are so many!
The thing to do is to avoid all the poor quality tabloids like Mail Sun Express etc and other disreputable rags that love sensational headlines. The BBC is fairly straightforward as is the Guardian, but you can also sign up to Dept of Health and Social Care, Public Health etc, and some of the science sites (I've put links to some of these) for some of the actual data.
Hurdity x
