Stop the FM Daily Briefing
The daily briefings were intended to inform but have become a platform to depress, bully and control the public. Indeed they seem to have morphed into a party political broadcast. The never ending negativity with no hint of a positive outcome in the near to medium term deflates rather than boosts morale. This is an avowedly “evidenced based policy” administration yet the daily briefings cite no evidence for the draconian measures being introduced. Face masks, rule of 6, 10pm closures, none of it has been justified by evidence. Even the latest “evidence” paper supporting the central belt shutdown is nothing more than hyperbole, misinformation, omission and propaganda. The young are not dying so they wheel out “long Covid” as justification for some of their actions. No evidence, no numbers, just a bland statement.
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The general public are losing interest, becoming frustrated at the lack of a coherent policy, and indeed angry with the way their rights are being trashed. The daily briefings do nothing to counter this malaise. Either stop them completely or radically change them - make them apolitical (get rid of the FM), make them evidence based, make them contextualised (where does Covid sit with all other public health issues), interpret the numbers don’t just repeat them, show charts rather than words. Above all, make them positive.
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