I cannot be the only person who is just daily appalled by Adam Creighton and his Twitter coverage about COVID. His arrogant mocking tone and completely unwarranted, ideologically drive, certainty that he has been right all along is just a journalistic and personal disgrace, and I hope he has (at the very least) lost friends permanently over it. (He will have more in the wingnut Right - he can have them.) He's like an Australian version of that utterly obnoxious, can-someone-please-punch-him-in-the-face Paul Joseph Watson.
His latest piece of triumphalism is gloating over the apparent rapid drop in UK cases, against expectations. This does appear genuinely puzzling, as this article in The Guardian notes. But as I have said for a long time - this has just obviously been a really complicated pandemic, with lots of puzzles that are not going to be fully understood for some time, such as why it took off so fast in some places, and slower in some poorer countries where one might have expected an earlier outbreak; the effectiveness of the various policy responses in different countries; and the extent of "long Covid" and whether it is going to lead to an increase in things as diverse as diabetes, dementia and male infertility and erectile dysfunction (!)
If ever there was a person who deserves to get it, and suffer badly from it, it's Adam.
He is one of the many.
ReplyDeletethe economy would be worse if you did nothing. He is obviously ignorant about exponential growth or avoiding it.