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Previously on "Brutal state crackdown on freedom loving folk"
Apparently hospitals, NHS Trusts and so on are under direct orders from ministers not to allow media in at all. The stuff on the BBC programme Hospital showing the system getting near collapse last spring was embarrassing to the government, and as things are even worse this time around, they don't want anybody to see.
See Mirror journalist Susie Boniface's tweet https://twitter.com/fleetstreetfox/s...28915182202886"For those wondering why journalists aren’t showing you what’s happening in hospitals - we can’t break in, and the ministers refuse access. An individual overriding that would lose their job, a trust would lose funding." in response to Dr. Rachel Clarke's thread starting at https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/st...86319536803840 which states that "7. Senior clinicians in multiple hospitals tell me they are desperate to show the reality inside our ICUs, wards and EDs. They aren't allowed to. All comms have been centralised. 8. I know this to be true at a Trust level too. CEOs who *want* to show the truth and can't."
This government doesn't really care if medical staff get abused by idiots who think the whole thing's a hoax, so they won't show us the things that would prove it isn't. It might lose them votes or, even worse, make the editor of the Daily Mail say nasty things about them
To be fair, have any of use seen any videos of people in hospitals?
If it was Africa with starving children we'd have Lenny Henry down there and that token white girl who David Lammy doesn't like
Not seen any UK hospitals? Anyone?
Apparently hospitals, NHS Trusts and so on are under direct orders from ministers not to allow media in at all. The stuff on the BBC programme Hospital showing the system getting near collapse last spring was embarrassing to the government, and as things are even worse this time around, they don't want anybody to see.
See Mirror journalist Susie Boniface's tweet https://twitter.com/fleetstreetfox/s...28915182202886"For those wondering why journalists aren’t showing you what’s happening in hospitals - we can’t break in, and the ministers refuse access. An individual overriding that would lose their job, a trust would lose funding." in response to Dr. Rachel Clarke's thread starting at https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/st...86319536803840 which states that "7. Senior clinicians in multiple hospitals tell me they are desperate to show the reality inside our ICUs, wards and EDs. They aren't allowed to. All comms have been centralised. 8. I know this to be true at a Trust level too. CEOs who *want* to show the truth and can't."
This government doesn't really care if medical staff get abused by idiots who think the whole thing's a hoax, so they won't show us the things that would prove it isn't. It might lose them votes or, even worse, make the editor of the Daily Mail say nasty things about them
They should tell them custody is busy and they'll have to be detained on a Covid ward for a few hours before they can be processed. See if they think the clicks were worth it then
"Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.
The men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.
Earlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.
The videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.
West Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.
Hospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.
The West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.
They were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre."
"1 Offence of sending letters etc. with intent to cause distress or anxiety.
(1)Any person who sends to another person—
(a)a [F1letter, electronic communication or article of any description] which conveys—
(i)a message which is indecent or grossly offensive;
(ii)a threat; or
(iii)information which is false and known or believed to be false by the sender; or
(b)any [F2article or electronic communication] which is, in whole or part, of an indecent or grossly offensive nature,"
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