Tối 19/7, thêm 2.180 ca mắc mới Covid-19

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The tyranny always lurking in the heart of nudgers is on the loose in Britain – so reports Laura Dodsworth. Here’s more:

With more than half of the population now double-vaccinated – 51.2 per cent of all eligible Britons have now had both jabs – expect the emphasis to shift on to long Covid. It’s all too apparent that Covid doesn’t kill children, so scientifically its “hangover” effects are a grey area that can be leveraged, potentially exploited to encourage, say, the idea of vaccination in children, or the rollout of daily testing in schools.

Can it be coincidence that, in recent days, Prof Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, has warned of a “significant” increase in long Covid among the young?

Similarly, if the Government really wants us to retreat from the state of fear it put us in at the start of the first lockdown last March – when the Prime Minister urged us, “at this moment of national emergency, to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives” – we must get wise to its reporting of data. The current Covid dashboard, to which we are subjected on the news every evening, has floated the big scary numbers to the top – but without context. We are told about deaths (tử vong) and hospital admissions (nhập viện), but never about the recoveries (hồi phục).

If the Government was serious about things returning to normal, the nightly reported figures might be better switched to the amount of antibodies in the population at large, or the reduced lethality (tính có thể làm chết người) of new variants (biến chủng mới), both of which tell a positive (tích cực) story.

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