Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

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Mr. Tea

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mixed_biscuits said:
Media does the first.
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This might make some sense if the only news/opinion media in the UK were the Guardian/Observer and the New Statesman. But most of our print media and their online versions are right-wing and are generally supportive of Tory governments, particularly the very right-wing one we have now. There were entirely predictable articles in the Telegraph and Spectator early on, saying it was no worse than seasonal flu and anyone worrying about it was a silly wet snowflake; then when the scale of the problem became clear, the angle changed to blaming the public for ignoring the government's confused, confusing and contradictory advice and deciding it might as well enjoy the nice weather.
 
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In any case, "the media demanded a medically unnecessary and economically ruinous lockdown and the government followed suit without so much as a whimper of dissent", even if it were true, doesn't explain a damn thing, because how does the lockdown benefit the Guardian, the Telegraph, News Corp, the BBC, or any other company or organization? What's in it for them?

Cui bono?
 
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Mr. Tea

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So real life is now officially like Cyclonopedia, except perhaps more morbid, frustrating and hard to understand.
 
mixed_biscuits

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It's a horrendous feedback loop, cos the government are making policy from what the public want, which is determined by what the media are telling them.
 
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mixed_biscuits said:
The media are following the clicks and are being constrained by Ofcom so as not to undermine what the government is doing.
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But you just said the government only introduced the lockdown because "the media" (which apparently is monolithic) demanded it!

So all you've got is "the pussy-ass government meekly followed the tyrannical media, and now the pussy-ass media are obeying the tyrannical government"?
 
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The public have the most power in this situation, as the government is following public opinion.

The media get most clicks from coming up with extreme, present threats. However, if the public had not believed that the threat were so great, the government would have enacted their original plan and done a Sweden instead (did I mention Sweden is back to normal now? :D)

Once the govt choose to do something, it serves them to have media and public compliance but it's a dance with the devil.
 
IdleRich

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Mr. Tea said:
But you just said the government only introduced the lockdown because "the media" (which apparently is monolithic) demanded it!

So all you've got is "the pussy-ass government meekly followed the tyrannical media, and now the pussy-ass media are obeying the tyrannical government"?
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That is literally what you just said MB.
 
mixed_biscuits

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Yeah, direct democracy works only if the information the public gets is reliable. To some extent that has been recognised as people are moving away from the MSM.
 
IdleRich

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Yes I agree, should be all sorted soon once enough people have rejected the BBC and moved to Infowars etc what do we do in the meantime though?
 
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