Why do we always seem to look on the worst side of everything?
Not all of us, but nationally.
They are at it again. The modellers have warned the government of a possible 80,000 deaths from a second wave of coronavirus this winter.
They explain that is is not a forecast, but a scenario for SAGE, the government's advisory committee.
They knew the advice was bound to leak, to be picked up immediately by the media - this time television's Newsnight, to make headline news.
Bad news is always been good news for the press. It sells.
Never mind the fear it raises, especially among the elderly,.
Government ministers are too ready to use scenarios as information to persuade the public to take the continuing threat of coronavirus seriously and to heed their warnings and advice, to follow the rules.
The trouble is, too often that advice is vague and poorly explained.
It might as well be guesswork.Trying to grasp where coronavirus will take us in the months, perhaps years, ahead is imponderable.
Perhaps it will be defeated by the vaccines that many countries are rushing to develop and produce.
In the meantime, let us ignore these senseless scenarios.
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