Take this with a large pinch of salt, but a friend told a few of us the other day that she had been told by a friend whose partner is an ambulance driver that they had been instructed to drive around with sirens on more than they ordinarily would in order to subconsciously scare people into thinking there were more "emergencies".
Not by whom they were intructed but it would seem to fit with the overwhelmed NHS/hospitals no busier than normal narrative.
I have also heard that from several sources coronation street re the ambulances .
I would really appreciate some help.pointing me to these podcasts and also sites that are best for news and nothing to do with the msm as I find my sources of news very limited and would like to expand it.
Thanks.
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Trusted media sources are hard to find, especially if you don't want to feel 'radicalised' in either direction; this is why I miss the BBC as it used to be.
I'm looking forward to Andrew Neil's news channel in March, although I've forgotten what it is to be called.
Planet Normal appears on Thursdays and can be found via the Daily Telegraph, fronted by Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan.
Triggernometry isn't really 'news', but is interesting nevertheless.
Haven't made up my mind yet about TimesRadio.
I think we just have to listen to as wide a selection as available and keep our BS detectors fine-tunes.
Just to add to the point about ambulance sirens being used to scare us:
I have been concerned for a while about the "One in three people with coronavirus don't have symptoms", message. It may be factually correct, but people very often get conditional probabilities back to front, as the Government's communications experts will know. So there is a good chance they will be happy for people to misread it as "One in three people without symptoms have coronavirus". In fact it is far fewer than one in three - most people don't have symptoms for the good reason that they don't have the virus,
Then a couple of days ago I saw an advert on a screen at a bus shelter in London. It said "One in three people don't have symptoms". Not even one in three carriers, simply one in three people. Again false - the great majority of people don't have symptoms because they don't have the virus. But very likely to distract you from the fact that anything like "one in three" only relates to the people with the virus, not to the population at large. And therefore helping people to misread all such messages and start to think "I feel fine today, I may well be a carrier".
My housemate made an interesting comment the other day which relates to the media and the BBC in particular relating to Boris' previous talk about scrapping the TV licence. He thinks a deal has been done to keep the BBC onside with the govt official narrative on the virus.
I'm not sure of the ins and outs of that (nor why other media would be captured, as they seem to be) but an interesting opinion.
