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Gary K

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Yahoo pretends to quote a Dr, Heneghen from Oxford when he says effects of lockdown in UK will be worse than the coronavirus. This is an excellent example of a media lie. The claim by Yahoo is directly contradicted by the direct quote from Heneghen in the article. He makes a positive statement and Yahoo reports it as a statement of possibility. Compare the wording in the internal quote from Heneghen to the Yahoo headline. Big difference.

[h=1]'Damage done by lockdown could outweigh that of coronavirus', warns professor[/h]





Deserted streets are a familiar sight as the UK continues with a lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Joe Giddens/PA)
The effects of a long term lockdown could do more damage than coronavirus itself, an Oxford professor has warned.
Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the centre for evidence-based medicine at Oxford University, told Radio 4’s Today programme: “In fact, the damaging effect now of lockdown is going to outweigh the damaging effect of coronavirus.”
Heneghan argued that not enough testing has been done so the government cannot understand how many people have actually had COVID-19, and that lockdown was preventing people seeking help for potentially life-threatening issues.
“The key is no-one has really understood how many people actually have the infection,” he said.
“You could do that really quickly with random sampling of a thousand people in London who thought they had the symptoms.

Professor Carl Heneghan suggests Boris Johnson's government may have imposed lockdown after coronavirus peaked in Britain (AP)
“You could do that in the next couple of days and get a really key handle on that problem and we’d be able to then understand coming out of lockdown much quicker.”
But the academic argued that the government had no plan for what happens next.
“You go into a lockdown - you should have a clear exit strategy,” he said on Monday. “You should understand the advantages and disadvantages of what you’re doing.”
Heneghan suggested the coronavirus peak may actually have taken place the week before Boris Johnson imposed the lockdown.
“We have failed to look at the data and see when the lockdown actually occurred,” he added.
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The two statements don't contradict each other, but you're right that the yahoo headline was misleading about what he said.

But so what? Yahoo (an many other media organizations) do this and much, much worse all the time. What is so special about this particular case?
 
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SUTG said:
The two statements don't contradict each other, but you're right that the yahoo headline was misleading about what he said.

But so what? Yahoo (an many other media organizations) do this and much, much worse all the time. What is so special about this particular case?
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Nothing is special about it. It's just evidence as to how the media warps the statements of those who point out the flaws in the media's narrative.

Damage done by lockdown could outweigh that of coronavirus', warns professor
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The above "quote" is far different than Heneghen's actual statement.

“In fact, the damaging effect now of lockdown is going to outweigh the damaging effect of coronavirus.”
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Heneghen's actual words said it was a fact that the lockdown was going to be far worse than the coronavirus. Yahoo's change to his actual words were that it was a possibility that the lockdown might be far worse. That's an actual contradiction of Heneghen's words.

I got into a conversation with one of Brit's here yesterday about how damaging the lock down would be if they followed the UK's Chief Medical Officer's statement that they needed to keep the lock down in place for an entire year. That Brit was in full concurrence with that as if that was the only opinion available by experts in the UK. Heneghen's statement fully backs up my position on the lock down.
 
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