"Doom, with added gloom"

 

Jeremy Clarkson caught Covid for Christmas and found it scary. 

What made it even more scary was not knowing and not being able to find out many of the most important things he needed to know about the disease as he lay in bed. 

It's information he wanted:

This is the problem we have. We keep being told that we know a great deal about Covid, but what I’ve learnt over the past 10 days is: we don’t. We don’t know how long we are infectious for. We don’t know how to tackle it. We don’t know what it does to us.

We don’t know how long the antibodies last. We don’t know how easy it is to catch it twice. And we certainly don’t know if any of the vaccines will work long-term. I don’t even know if I’m better now. Seriously, I have absolutely no idea.

He turned to the BBC:

In desperation I’d tune into the BBC, where things were even worse because all it did was try to belittle Boris Johnson by going onto the streets and asking passers-by what they’d do. If there’s ever an award for truly lamentable journalism, the BBC’s News at Six team should win it for its efforts last year. Its message has been constant. You’re going to die. And the Tories are to blame.

It’s strange, but when people catch cancer, they are always told about people who had the exact same thing and got better. No one says: “Ooh, you’ve got it in the liver? I had a mate who got it there. Dead in a week.” But it seems that’s what you get from the BBC. Doom, with added gloom.

He thinks the BBC should concentrate on finding out information about the disease that would help us all:

Maybe the BBC should consider this and in future stop asking clever-clever questions designed to make Boris look foolish, and instead ask clever questions that will help us understand something that scares us.