Oh dear
I'm sure that you remember all the talk about "flattening the peak" ?
Brazil is still on the way up in a vertical line and while you are quite correct in saying that per capita, at the moment, they are doing better then the UK, their numbers of new daily cases is quite staggering.

What happened to the conspiracy theory ??

Thank heavens it's only the useless windbag one can only speculate where we would be with other so called leaders in charge of I am honest there is hardly a leader among the lot of them Corbyn was is an activist Starmer couldn't make decision to save his life when in charge of CPS and nothing seems to change in respect of him too many agendas not enough cohesion politics are polar opposite at the moment and the gutter journalism doesn't help. Having watched numerous live reports and then seen the summary twist things I stick to Al Jazeera now at least it's down the middle!

Why don't you check the excess mortality data if you distrust the reporting of COVID19?

I've done some of the groundwork for you (Percentage data captured for All Mortality 14 March - 8 May compared to the last 5 year average).

England & Wales 2020 increase on the previous 5 year average is 60%+ (131,467 / 82,000 )
Sweden 2020 increase on the previous 5 year average is 27%+ (17,925 / 14,079)
Germany 2020 increase on the previous 5 year average is 5%+ (151,661 / 143,906)

Our World In Data.org have even provided graphs for 24 participating countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany (Berlin), Germany (Hesse), Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK (England), UK (Northern Ireland), UK (Scotland), UK (Wales).

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"Even Redcat must be wondering why this government seems so scared to use the power it has. What exactly is Boris scared of, all very sinister.¬'"

The "conspiracy" was suggested by posters earlier in the thread, some scheme designed to keep the population of the world in its place and no such thing as the covid pandemic ??
As for common sense to judge propaganda, that's a little more difficult

I always remember the line form the track "pills and soap", "something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis" and there is little doubt that much of the news, now, more than ever before, is driven by an agenda from someone, somewhere.
It's quite staggering just how much can happen without the perpetrators not being called out.

Trump, for instance, would have been a laughing stock with some of the guff that he's come out with but, he has the majority of the US media running scared, almost like they would in a dictatorship.

It's a strange world that we live in, that's for sure.

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Strangley enough vasty you appear to have quite a knowledgeable head on you when broaching serious subjects that doesn't always show through on RL/Trinity topics. No offence intended, I've enjoyed reading your posts, but it it is quite a simple answer to your question; The thing that scares Boris the most is the fact that he hasn't a bloody clue what the heck he's dolng and what the job of PM entails and what it's all about. He hasn't a clue when answering serious interviewers and repeats the same old rhetoric on every question. What he does say is what his "Law-breaking" advisor tells him to say any way. In a word vasty, the man's an idiot!!!
He can’t even go one session of PMQs without having to turn back towards his mates for reassurance who are only there to jeer at the opposition.

How bizzare, a blind man with blinkers on.
Btw vastman is quite knowledgeable about most things, he sometimes though has the propensity to be a little short on patience with some posters on here with less understanding than him, he's certainly half a page in front of you

I could probably cope with him if he had an ounce of sincerity and stopped telling so many bloody lies.
We were supposed to have a "world beating" teas and trace system in place at the beginning of June ??
His own ministers willingly admit that the app connected to this MAY be ready by the end of the year - this was supposed to be THE main element in controlling the spread of the virus.

With the ecconomy in full reverse, he is now going to gamble everything on reducing social distancing to 1 metre (an announcement probably by this time on Tuesday) and yet, the very thing that was supposed to keep "his people" safe doesn't work.

Boris and his shamed advisor have blustered and lied through all of his tenure as PM (and before) and he simply isn't going to change.

"Listening to the science" will stop very soon and it will be politics that now governs our safety and wellbeing - good times eh ?

Ok to criticise after the event.We are a very small country compared to the rest of Europe large overpopulated city's, and the highest population,in Europe .Give the Government a break .I did not vote for them . Know we are in a better position with them in charge.What ever they do some person will not be happy.The problem with this country is the meda TV ,paper's ect Just dramatizing every thing ,and missing a word out to change the meeting of a sentence

Summed up perfectly for me