Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
It's a government committee hearing filmed in its entirety, and the Telegraph are not adding any spin or opinion! They discuss what is going to happen and what the response will be. No panic he said/she said hearsay, just the facts from the horses mouth.
The horses mouth? A single source is a good way of building your opinion now then? How things change.

Committee hearings make good theatre, I prefer to look at the numbers and what has/hasn't worked in other countries. Probably the worst thing to do is announce that it is a 'hoax invented by the opposition' but a close second is 'sod all'.

Yesterday one of the horses mouths (Chris whitty - CMO for england) said that 'sod all' hadn't worked and we were moving into delay phase. This morning the BBC did a q and a with the chief scientific advisor and he said we were very much 'in the contain phase', it doesn't really matter because they are both largely the same. Comms have been firing around Central and local government and the focus is pretty clearly more around controlling the narrative and message than the virus.

Let me ask you something about contain phase. Imagine a situation where a parent of a child at a specialist provision school had tested positive for coronavirus. Do you think the focus from the authorities (DfE, public health etc) would be on informing the parents of those vulnerable, potentially immunocompromised children so they can make appropriate choices for their own children/families or alternatively taking steps to ensure that the parents wouldn't find out?