Almost 1000 deaths again today, and the lead BBC headline is still “Boris needs a rest, says his dad”.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
Nearly a thousand dead in 24 hours.
The worst death toll of any European country in a 24 hour period.
And this is what the BBC is leading on: the sort of pro-government tub thumping you’d expect in a tinpot dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/kgHtxkTBdh
— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 10, 2020
This has been updated. 980 Britons died in the last 24 hour period. That’s the worst 24 hour death toll of any European country. It is a national catastrophe: these horrific deaths should be the main headline, and the government held properly to account. https://t.co/59dH53Suns
— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 10, 2020
If we ever wondered if it was even possible for the BBC to fail its audiences more shamefully than it did during the independence referendum, we now have our answer.https://t.co/7V3HrsrHHs
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
It’s absolutely obvious that an edict has gone out from the very top of the BBC to play down the catastrophic daily UK death toll. This has happened several days in a row now, and is unlikely to be a coincidence.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
Just checked. Still the top story. Still a terrible terrible headline. ‘Herculean’ ‘reassures’ ‘efforts’ 🤮🤮🤮
They’re DEAD. 980 people today. pic.twitter.com/T2NQHlqVAf
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 10, 2020
Agreed. I saw this and was stunned. How could almost 1000 people dying not make it as a headline. Why do they not even warrant a mention?
— Sophie Farooque ✋WASH HANDS! (@LondonAllergy) April 10, 2020
Entire news list is shocking. I know it’s easy to criticise but ‘Apple & Google team up’ as story 2? Johnson takes short walks as 3? And not a single headline that reflects the horror of what is happening? pic.twitter.com/SfdYATHBZl
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 10, 2020
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This isn’t unique to Scotland. As death figures continue to climb, we are seeing that though certain trends may be flattening, the whole UK is heading to be one of the worst affected states of the crisis. Huge questions to be asked now and in the future about why that is.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) April 10, 2020
Well, it’s not rocket science. We abandoned testing and contact tracing at exactly the moment we should have been ramping it up. We left the pubs and clubs open and actively encouraged people to go to big events when we should have long since banned them.https://t.co/BxEL6sk9G7
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
One of the architects. Amazingly still in post. pic.twitter.com/jx3TUfIM5I
— ~ Paul ~ 🏴 🇪🇺 (@Rogue_74) April 10, 2020
I hadn’t seen this one before. I presume it’s from a few weeks ago, and it’s absolutely disgraceful. Scotland’s own Jason Leitch, openly propagandising for the ‘herd immunity’ strategy that would have killed 250,000. This must never, ever happen again.https://t.co/QoXOltdcwv
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
The comment “it appears you very, very rarely, if ever, get it twice” is bordering on imbecilic. At the time of that interview, the virus had been around for what…three months?
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
Amazes me that folk are so in awe of him, this kind of stuff is dangerous. He speaks with such self assurance, but I think he’s really just winging it. Utterly went off him when it was clear he was backing the herd immunity guff. He should resign.
— fife_ninja (@fife_ninja) April 10, 2020
Lost faith in Leitch when he told Peirs Morgan that he would have attended the Capaldi concert in Aberdeen. Any idiot knew then that attending events like this at that time was a dangerous thing to do.
— colin armstrong (@RantinScot) April 10, 2020
He was telling us that it doesn’t spread in large crowds, and not in schools either. What scared me was that, as an armchair researcher, I felt that I had a better understanding of the scale of this thing and of the impending disaster than he did.
— fife_ninja (@fife_ninja) April 10, 2020
Same thing here and it made me very uneasy. To me, no expert, it was just basic common sense to avoid large gatherings. How Leitch and other experts didn’t see the same thing is something that is beyond me and something that will have to be answered.
— colin armstrong (@RantinScot) April 10, 2020
I am amazed how many people rate Leitch and his ‘man of the people’ act. He is no better than BoJo and WM Tories in his approach to Covid19. He also argued for massive gig in Aberdeen just before lockdown and visiting old COPD mum on Mother’s day to give her a hug 🤡
— Barbara (@bombusmonticola) April 10, 2020
I watched one of his very early video posts about how the ‘flattening the curve’ works and haven’t been able to listen to/watch anything he’s done since. He said so many things in it that were obviously wrong. I hear he’s a dentist by trade. @ScotGovFM please do better.
— Debz (@debzydoll13) April 10, 2020
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Some excoriating comments in this video if you stick with it until midway through – the “British imperial arrogance” that led to the defiance of the WHO, and how the Western Isles could have been saved from any outbreak at all, but the chance was missed.https://t.co/3vu3sUFlxo
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 10, 2020
Have you heard enough of experts? Or would you like to hear what’s *really* going on with the whole testing debacle. We got 3 professors,an expert in communicable diseases & an ex-chair of health committee to give it to us straight: The Covid Reporthttps://t.co/GCjVJOap3l
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 9, 2020
