Pasta said: It's still rife in the UK. Friend of mine caught it at a non-WAM shoot this month because the tog turned up infected because he reckoned he'd be safe three days after a positive test.

webcamplayer said: But I do think there are things that could be done to help people get through it - such as halting the daily news stories about it that aren't news stories anyway. Scientist X says such-and-such MAY happen, and that the next wave COULD be the largest, that we MIGHT reach a certain number of cases a day. And so on. I don't think people don't want to hear mays, coulds, and mights anymore. If it's an unknown, wait until it's a known before reporting it. Likewise, do we need to know daily figures? Would we be better off with weekly figures? Must every utterance be a major news story that runs for a week? In the UK, the Boris said in March or April that Covid passports "couldn't be ruled out." And the news stories ran for weeks saying that they are likely to be brought in. And then they weren't. I think the media (press and TV and internet) are no longer being responsible. They're not reporting facts, they're making clickbait out of every little thing that might or might not happen.

I really do think we would all have mentally coped with this better if we had the same technology we had thirty years ago: no rolling TV news, just the bulletins at 6 and 10. No headlines forever popping up on your phone. No internet, and so no news stories about it on every page you turn to. That way, even in lockdown, we could at least forget about it for a few hours a day. The only way to do that in 2021 is by literally isolating yourself from every media source possible.