Nanny Peston, as ever, has something of a bee in his bonnet about the government not imposing enough restrictions wrt Covid.
However, over the last 24 hours he has managed to get himself into a wee bit of a tangle.
Last night on the News at Ten he quoted some hospitalisations statistics that were out of date, he then went on to say that if they doubled (without any evidence as to why they should double) then the NHS would be overwhelmed.
All very well, except that he ignored the fact that this time last year NHS admissions were ten times the level they are now, and the "service" wasn't overwhelmed.
Then on Twitter he decided to try a new tack, suggesting that the government needs to SLOWDOWN the booster programme lest the NHS become overwhelmed!
doctors and nurses, a big question is whether @BorisJohnson should have bitten the bullet of other social distancing measures, to slow Omnicron spread, and allow slightly slower roll out of vaccines. That might have dealt less of a blow to the NHS’s attempt to…
— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 30, 2021
As I have noted on one of my other sites, Peston needs to be muted!
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