This feels really dangerous. Media extremely susceptible to Farage's bullshit and will be searching for covid 'controversies'. https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1323015020641456128
Plus the effect it'll have on Tory lockdown-sceptics will make it more newsworthy. He'll likely be able to pump out his degenerate self-interested anti-science crap extensively, politicising the pandemic and helping the virus to spread.
The next year will be an important moment for broadcasters and especially the BBC. You can't one-the-one-hand-and-on-the-other this thing. We must be clear where the scientific consensus is and what non-vaccine herd immunity would entail.
As a principle of public health - of saving lives - these people must be shown for the ignorant grifting narcissists they really are.
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