Journalists

Its because London is so densely crowded the virus is spreading quicker there.

It does get irritating when Westminster concentrate on London, but the rest of us North of Watford have been used to that behaviour for a long time. You've only got to listen to the weather today in London its sunny and its mild for the rest of the country

Anniebach and Linnypinny, I agree with you both.

I so agree Linnipinny , what ever is said today by the PM and the experts the media will find someone to say they were
wrong

I think the media is making people panic. On Merseyside there are vast shortages no flour eggs soap toilet rolls the list is endless. What I am finding most annoying is news coverage. Most of the reporting is about London it's not the only city in this country we all matter.

Yes, I sometimes think the polictians are very clever to remember the string of questions put to them by each journalist. I would have forgotten the first one by the time they were asking the third one!
I guess each journalist wants to get in as many questions as possible because they don't get another chance in that briefing.

I wish the journalists were restricted to one question instead of asking multiple questions, usually pretty stupid ones, just to hear their own voices.

fourormore coincidentally, today we passed 3 of what used to be called cottage hospitals. They are still in NHS use but under different names as various special units or clinics. Not gone just rebranded.

The journalists ask the type of questions their proprietors require them to ask.

I wish one of the journalists would ask if they now regret closing all the little cottage hospitals that we've lost over the past few years.
Wouldn't they have been useful as isolation hospitals?

I disagree. Why would this disparate bunch of journalists play the government's game? They ask awkward and uncomfortable questions that you can sometimes see them struggle to answer or deflect.

The journalists questions are designed to give the PM and cohorts the opportunity to look good. It's nothing to do with whether we really want to or would have asked that question. An inane question about private hospitals allows the PM to waffle on about how many private beds are coming into the system. Obviously no one asks the more awkward questions such as, 'How much are we paying the private hospitals?' or 'Doesn't this prove that over the last 10 years you've pushed the NHS to breaking point by reducing funding so it can no longer cope in a crisis?'

We've found it best just to watch the PM and experts present their speech and switch off after that. The journalists questions are so irritating and trying to make their own points.
The PM and experts are specialists in their fields not TV presenters so shouldn't be judged on the ums and ahs.

One of the journalists asked about looting (I think he was from the Sun. ? ) I too was incensed watching them. They spread fear amongst us I’m afraid. Who started with the there are no hand gels to be found and photos of empty shelves....

Or the one who asked if there were any private hospitals outside London?!!

Journalists seem to ask ridiculous questions wherever they go!
For example:
You've just left a building where a bomb has just exploded - how do you feel?
You managed to get out of the Grenville Tower flats -
how do you feel?
Honest to goodness I wonder about their mentality at times!

The journalists ask the most stupid questions, why should we want to know if Johnson is seeing his mother this Sunday .

So many questions as stupid as ‘how long is a piece of string’

Faced with these stupid journalists the 'ers' and 'ums' are probably replacements for the rather stronger language they would prefer to use.

Glad it wasn't only me shouting at the journalists Crazygran!!!
Honestly we were losing the will to live with the stupid questions.
Another frustrating thing was that none of the 'experts' seemed to be able to string a sentence together coherently? So many 'ers' and 'ums' but that's probably due to us feeling fed up that we're nit picking!