Re:UK government advisor caught out by Wayback machine
by rvz on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:45AM
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> Does anyone know am I justified in thinking this, or is it all spinning smoke and mirrors?
There's a great deal of spin doctors on all sides that will do anything to make the party they're in look great in-front of the 'media' in order to sweep scandals under the carpet. So it's both.
The guy is undoubtably clever, something like an evil genius here and he knows the mainstream media is on his case for sometime with lots of skepticism of his own story if proven to be completely false. His attitude to answering questions in the Q/A was nothing more than a lure to show the extreme hysteria and anger the media has towards him, just as they ran with a story of 'allegations' of a second trip with no evidence. [0][1] Such stories without evidence are very dangerous.
> No photographic evidence has been published, and the reports are based on the testimonies of two eyewitnesses.
The UK didn't take the lockdown measures and this pandemic seriously from the start and was slow to act and testing targets were not met. The media compared it to the 'flu' and played down the death rates when comparing it to the 2003 SARS outbreak. Perhaps those who weren't socially distant and were clapping close together at Westminster Bridge [2] were just as bad as Cummings 'breaking' the lockdown, shouldn't begin to point fingers. It's everyone's fault.
There's a great deal of spin doctors on all sides that will do anything to make the party they're in look great in-front of the 'media' in order to sweep scandals under the carpet. So it's both.
The guy is undoubtably clever, something like an evil genius here and he knows the mainstream media is on his case for sometime with lots of skepticism of his own story if proven to be completely false. His attitude to answering questions in the Q/A was nothing more than a lure to show the extreme hysteria and anger the media has towards him, just as they ran with a story of 'allegations' of a second trip with no evidence. [0][1] Such stories without evidence are very dangerous.
> No photographic evidence has been published, and the reports are based on the testimonies of two eyewitnesses.
The UK didn't take the lockdown measures and this pandemic seriously from the start and was slow to act and testing targets were not met. The media compared it to the 'flu' and played down the death rates when comparing it to the 2003 SARS outbreak. Perhaps those who weren't socially distant and were clapping close together at Westminster Bridge [2] were just as bad as Cummings 'breaking' the lockdown, shouldn't begin to point fingers. It's everyone's fault.
[0] https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-dominic-cummings-made...
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52786206
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...