Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Interesting. I didn't watch the press conference, so may not be in the best place to comment here, but (that doesn't normally stop me)...

Could it be that the conversation went something like:
Scientists: You really will have to do some sort of lock-down
Politicians: OK we agree, but people won't believe us unless we scare them a bit. Can you show them that graph you showed us last week?
Scientists: But that's already out of date and it's not tracking any more
Politicians: That doesn't matter, no-one will look at the details. We just need a headline of 4000 a day, then we can justify the lock-down
I think it was March 15th Sage minutes (not Government) that talked of using shock or fear. It's been mentioned before on here.

It is a Sage tactic.

They recently highlighted socially shaming as acceptable and desirable.

But the buck stops with the Government.

I listened to Jenrick doing the rounds this morning. He was awful. He sounded like a robot, given a few pre-recorded answers to questions they would have liked to have been asked.

How about Liverpool Mr Jenrick, where cases were dropping a week befire they went in to Tier 3?

I'm sorry but that just isn't true, I don't know where you get that information from.

It's from the Governments own Covid data on their website now.

stoney silence.

Reality Noel - there will always be a small rump of the population who will not follow the law. They do their own thing.
Drink driving has not been eliminated despite the laws and checks against it and that it is extremely socially unacceptable.

By trying to manipulate data, scare the population, blame the population, they are turning more against what they want to achieve.