I could almost repeat your two sentences word for word @Nik, except to replace email the word 'news' by 'political debate'. By that I mean TV programmes like 'Politics Live', 'Question Time', 'The Andrew Marr Show' etc.
But one observation I have found very puzzling about this pandemic is how various news correspondents seem regularly to throw caution to the wind and put themselves in danger and at risk of contracting the disease, and yet none seem to succumb.
By way of an example, C4's health correspondent Victoria McDonald, visiting the wards of covid inundated hospitals, speaking to doctors and staff on the front line. Hugh Pym too, has done similar for the BBC.
Jonathan Rugman, C4's International Affairs correspondent, was reporting the other night from South Dakota, in America's midwest, which although rural has USA's biggest covid surge. Local hospitals are already overwhelmed so the sick have had to be sent to other infirmaries outside the state. Yet here was Rugman talking inside a Dakota household to a housewife whose own husband is currently fighting the virus in hospital. He was wearing a mask, she wasn't.
It's a similar story with MPs. Apart from the PM, and apparently a Bolton Labour MP, who got as far as the pneumonia stage, very few have appeared to suffer serious disease, in spite of Westminster being a hotbed for the virus, with several MPs over these last 9 months having been tested and confirmed positive.
Maybe covid is substantially harder to catch than we are led to believe.
Or maybe if you're on an impressively big salary; way above the £24,000 pa national average; like correspondents and politicians are, your BUPA subscriptions count.
I cannot believe the public, many of whom fall hook line and sinker for whatever bollocks the elite tell them, don't realise this.
Here is a great observation from someone on twitter who has seen through the nonsense.
'In a real pandemic we wouldn't need the constant barrage from the media, police presence & brutality, fines, threats, coercion, snitching, forced isolation, forced face coverings, restrictions, people would just comply &try to protect themselves, surely people see that by now?'
