Dr Lee videoed the scene and Tweeted it out with this comment: “Worked the late A&E SHO shift on NYE and came out to this. Hundreds of maskless, drunk people in huge groups shouting 'Covid is a hoax', literally outside the building where hundreds are sick and dying. Why do people still not realise the seriousness of this pandemic?”.
Why indeed. Fast forward to yesterday evening, and BBC Newsnight gave a platform to the loathsome Toby Young, who was at pains to stress that he, and others published on the Lockdown Sceptics site, did not claim that Covid-19 was not real, and nor did they deny there was a pandemic. It was just debate, and good old FREEZE PEACH.
This is the same argument as that advanced in defence of the unappealing roster of hosts at Murdoch property TalkRADIO: they’re just debating the issue. And to that I call bullshit: this is the equivalent of papers like the Sun and Mail claiming they aren’t (for instance) bigoted against people who are not white, while carefully selecting arguments and pundits in the sure and certain knowledge that the bigots will hear the dog whistle loud and clear.
What Tobes and the TalkRADIO goons effectively do is to keep picking out figures, arguments, and alleged experts who cast enough doubt on the scientific consensus to make the more easily led question not only that consensus, but because they haven’t yet experienced Covid-19 infection, to question whether it is actually real.
After all, it has to be remembered that the BBC says Covid-19 is real, and those out there on the right are constantly attacking the BBC, as well as other broadcasters, for getting things wrong. It is not too far a stretch to go from “just having a debate” to a disturbingly large number of people becoming convinced that it’s all a hoax.
That is why the Beeb should not be giving the oxygen of publicity to Toby Young, or indeed any of the Covidiot brigade. Because while the latter are right in that they are not claiming the pandemic is a hoax and the virus doesn’t exist, you can see it from there.
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8 comments:
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Ideally Tobes oughtn't to be getting any Oxygen whatsoever.
Wouldn't wish CV-19 on anybody.
But wouldn't it be ironic if Young et Al caught the long version?
Just a freeze peach debating point you understand....
Imagine the last astronaut to have flown the Space Shuttle. Or a NASA rocket scientist. Or perhaps an astronomer who works for the ESA. Or a Russian cosmonaut just returning from the Int'l Space Station.
And imagine all of these men and women have either been to space and seen the Earth as a sphere. Or been involved in sending other people and objects which clearly have. They are in TV studio debating with a flat-earther. Whose views should take precedent? This is what we're up against with Covid deniers...and worse. Because this is public health and safety at stake!
My fist badly wants to converse with his nose .... nothing like good close quarters debate
If Covidiots end up catching it then treat them and bill them. A couple of "medical bankruptcies" would bring the rest to their senses, assuming they have any.
When I heard about the utterly deluded Covid-deniers outside St Thomas's Hospital, intimidating medical staff, I wondered if those water cannons that Johnson bought when he was Mayor were still available.
The BBC keep giving Gupta oxygen. Gupta along with Sikora is a central go-to scientist for Hartley Brewer, Hitchens, Oakeshott , Young and so on. Meanwhile, 1000 dead figs seem to be acceptable to them, not to put too fien a point on it, a bunch of eugenecists and ultimately murderers. June one person persuaded to their point of view could have lead to death. Gupta was asked on BBC Radio two days ago what she would do with elderly in families where they live intergenerationally, including in many Asian families. She said she would remove them to other locations on their own! She and Hartley Brewer have argued for containment and isolation of the most vulnerable in age groups 70 and above, of which there are an estimated 15 million in UK. Lunatics.
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