RE: Repost24 Apr 2020 10:06
Part2
10. Please can the results of the epidemiological modelling, of the effects of recent social distancing measures, be presented?
A standard method of presentation is a graph of deaths per 10 million people per day, on logarithmic axis, plotted against days after the first death, on linear axis. It is appreciated that there will be uncertainties in the estimates, a problem that can be addressed by presenting upper, lower and central estimates. A graph of this type will also allow comparison with other countries.
11.The present format of the briefings does not allow the questioner to reply to the answers that have been given and point out where the answer given is deficient, at odds with known facts, or to suggest precisely the information that should be provided. There has been far too much shifty evasion and this needs to stop.
At the moment it is too much like PMQs where Government Ministers can simply not answer, willfully misrepresent and bluster. The briefings need a moderator of unimpeachable integrity - in previous days we could have had a Brian Walden, a Robin Day or a David Dimbleby - to keep order and make sure questions are answered properly and honestly, which at the moment they are not.