If the BBC is going to pack its major tv news bulletins with coronavirus stories, let's have a move to reporting some facts, and a touch on the tiller reducing the either heartwarming or tear-jerking stories of 'real life'.
With over 4,000 BBC UK hacks working from home, why not give each of them the job of calling 5 care homes (there are 21,723 in the UK) to get a better picture of the death rate - which the Government seems unable to do ?
Why not get some graphs from intensive care units ? There was a Friday report from ICNARC that hasn't been covered yet. It shows 2067 have died and 2011 have been discharged after critical care; that the average age of patients is 60; that 71.8% are men; and that 26.1% are Asian or black (compared with 11.8% of the UK population as a whole).
Let's monitor some commuter roads into London on Monday, and see who is going back to work and why.
Let's test today's news, provided by the Government, that they've ordered millions of lateral flow tests for covid antibodies - when a day before an Oxford evaluation panel rejected nine commercially-offered tests as not good enough. Ask for the Government evaluation of this headline-grabbing purchase.
Let's have the shortest possible package on our Prime Minister's trumphal return to take the reins of the swerving, one-wheeled, chariot of Government, eh ?
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