I know I'm in danger of becoming a crank and a bore by going on about our awful news media, but it really is awful. Tens of thousands of people are already more or less ruined by a burgeoning depression and this Dickensian claptrap is what one of our chief explainers produces. https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1250028990573817857

The inhumanity on display in the papers and on TV is startling - a daily death toll in the hundreds is treated as a simple metric, with no sense of the pain involved, and tat metric is mostly used to claim that the govt is doing a great job.