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The re-opening of England's pubs has rendered me, ahem, unable to do a proper update today but will do one tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a post from regular contributor Guy de la Bédoyère that will, I imagine, strike a chord with many. Sky News this morning featured another of those bizarro-world reports the broadcast media seems to be fixated about pushing out. This one, by Alex Crawford in Houston, was about the dramatic increase in infections in Texas. It was straight back to the Good Old Days of Covid Death Porn – except that there didn't seem to be much death. But Ms Crawford had clearly been watching back through the Death Porn archives to make sure it ticked all the boxes. But somehow it just didn't work out like that.Needless to say, the item began with a patient having a tube stuffed down his nose – the usual opening scene in any self-respecting Covid hospital report. "The awful reality of Coronavirus," said Alex Crawford, who moved on to a hospitalised patient whom she reported as saying that "Coronavirus kills you". That he seemed to be alive, conscious and on the way to recovery had apparently passed both him and Crawford by."Even survival feels like death," Crawford opined, perhaps frustrated by the lack of body bags on hand. ...
