Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I think the government has really constructed a parallel discursive reality and people are falling for it. It was a stroke of genius to only report hospital deaths, allowing the government to pretend its crisis management has been a success so far. Quite unbelievable what Boris said on Monday, if you think about it. I think it’s easily on par with Trump:

thanks to our collective national resolve
we are on the brink of achieving that first > > clear mission to prevent our national health > service from being overwhelmed in a way > > that tragically we have seen elsewhere