{"id":161463,"date":"2020-09-21T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/21\/britain-needs-to-live-with-coronavirus-not-in-fear-of-it-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:44:02","slug":"britain-needs-to-live-with-coronavirus-not-in-fear-of-it-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=161463","title":{"rendered":"Britain needs to live with coronavirus, not in fear of it | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vallance and Whitty spoke reasonably and sincerely in their press conference. But their data was selective, and they seem determined to cause alarmThank goodness for scientists talking about coronavirus rather than politicians. They speak English and sound sincere. Today\u2019s presentation by Whitehall\u2019s Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty was devoid of slogan and cliche. They just wanted to say that the virus was back, Covid-19 numbers were rising and we all should be worried. So far so reasonable.What they did not do was take questions on their alarming thesis or indicate how it should affect government policy. They based their argument on two countries, Spain and France, both with \u201ccase surges\u201d far worse than the UK, without mentioning Italy, Germany, Sweden or elsewhere \u2013 evidence that might point in the opposite direction. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/21\/coronavirus-britain-vallance-whitty-fear-data-alarm\" target=\"_blank\">Britain needs to live with coronavirus, not in fear of it | Simon Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vallance and Whitty spoke reasonably and sincerely in their press conference. But their data was selective, and they seem determined to cause alarmThank goodness for scientists talking about coronavirus rather than politicians. They speak English and sound sincere. Today\u2019s presentation by Whitehall\u2019s Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty was devoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}