And the home town for Patient Zero in the BBC's predictive programming screening of 'Contagion'.
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rachel wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:07 pm We know Professor Hannah Fry for her 2022 'UNVACCINATED' documentary, but before that, on BBC4, she hosted another documentary called 'CONTAGION'. So let's have a bit of a diversion, because just like Andrew Maxwell from the 'Conspiracy Road Trip', Hannah prefers to be known as a badass comedian.
UK Column News on BBC controversy 27 July 2022
We find out Hannah was a member of the Bright Club, which is an academic comedy club. Are things beginning to all fit together?
At around 14:30, Alex comments about 'THE BRIGHTS', and suggests that might be the linguistic link the 'BRIGHT CLUB' is using, and he then quotes - people who wish to play God among men - the London and Oxbridge set. How interesting is that considering Katie Hopkins.
Contagion: The BBC Four Pandemic (2018)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y0p1CONTAGION: THE BBC FOUR PANDEMIC
The government rates the global outbreak of a deadly flu virus as a major threat to the UK. It could happen at any time. To predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before, new data is needed - and lots of it. Dr Hannah Fry is on the case.
She sets out to recruit the nation to download the BBC Pandemic app in a ground-breaking experiment to help plan for when the next deadly virus comes to the UK. How quickly will it spread? How many could it kill? What can we do about it? The BBC Four Pandemic experiment will find out.
Hannah masterminds the experiment and adopts the role of Patient Zero by walking the streets of Haslemere in Surrey to launch the outbreak. Meanwhile, emergency physician Dr Javid Abdelmoneim finds out why flu is still such a danger to society a century after Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people worldwide. He meets researchers trying to discover what makes some people more contagious than others and visits a factory that will produce vaccine when the next pandemic flu virus emerges.
Armed with the information he gathers and the results of the BBC Four Pandemic experiment, Hannah and Javid make a shocking revelation.
rachel wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:22 pm Interesting, I just went back to the 'CONTAGION: THE BBC FOUR PANDEMIC' page link I berated here for not having the broadcast dates, and there they are...first shown on Thu 22 Mar 2018, 21:00.
22nd March 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y0p1
And two years later, to the date, Boris Johnson implements the first UK lockdown. Do we think they popped some champagne to celebrate?
22nd March 2020
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... march-2020
Location: 10 Downing Street
Delivered on: 22 March 2020
(Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Good afternoon everyone
Thank you for coming, and thank you to Robert Jenrick, the Communities Secretary, and Dr Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer.
I want again to thank everyone in the country today for the huge effort that we are collectively making.
I want to thank the amazing workers in the NHS, everybody working in social care, in every sector, in food distribution, transport, you name it – absolutely everyone who is keeping this country going today.
And I want to thank everyone who is being forced to do something differently today.
Everyone who didn’t visit their mum for Mother’s Day but Facetimed them, Skyped them, rang them instead.
Thank you for your restraint and for what you did.
Everyone who was forced to close a pub or a restaurant or a gym or any other business that could have done fantastic businesses on a great day like this.
Thank you for your sacrifice, I know how tough it must be.
And I can tell you again that this government will be standing behind you – behind British business, behind British workers, employees, self-employed – throughout this crisis.
And the reason we are taking these unprecedented steps to prop up businesses, support businesses and support our economy and these preventative measures is because we have to slow the spread of the disease and to save thousands of lives.
Today we have come to the stage of our plan that I advertised at the outset, when we first set out the plan of the UK government.
When we have to take special steps to protect the particularly vulnerable.
I said the moment would come where we needed to shield those with serious conditions. There are probably about 1.5 million in all.
And in a minute Robert Jenrick will set out the plan in detail.
But this shielding will do more than any other single measure that we are setting out to save life. That is what we want to do.
Also to reduce infection and to slow the spread of the disease.
We have to do more to make sure that the existing measures that we are taking are having the effect that we want.
So it is crucial that people understand tomorrow that the schools are closed.
And tomorrow you should not send your child to school unless you have been identified as a key worker.
And more generally in the view of the way people have responded over the last few days to the measures we have set out I want to say a bit more about how we interact outdoors.
Of course I want people to be able to go to the parks and open spaces and to enjoy themselves – it is crucial for health and mental and physical wellbeing.
But please follow the advice and don’t think that fresh air in itself automatically provides some immunity.
You have to stay two metres apart; you have to follow the social distancing advice.
And even if you think you are personally invulnerable, there are plenty of people you can infect and whose lives will then be put at risk.
And I say this now – on Sunday evening – take this advice seriously, follow it, because it is absolutely crucial.
And as I have said throughout this process we will keep the implementation of these measures under constant review and, yes of course, we will bring forward further measures if we think that is necessary.
Always remember that in following this advice- and I know how difficult that is – that each and every one of us.
You are doing your bit in following this advice to slow the spread of this disease.
The more we collectively slow the spread, the more time we give the NHS to prepare, the more lives we will save, the faster we will get through this.
And always remember – we will get through this, and we will beat it together.
Next Robert Jenrick to outline the shielding measures.
Published 22 March 2020
Grabs from that video...
Climate change threatens the natural world more than ground-mounted solar panels do, Ed Miliband has claimed.
The Energy Secretary branded himself a “super nerd” in the House of Commons, as he made an urgent statement on Labour’s “clean energy superpower mission”.
The Labour minister has faced criticism from Rutland and Stamford’s Conservative MP Alicia Kearns, after he signed off on the 350-megawatt Mallard Pass Solar project across about 2,000 acres in her constituency.
Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has also questioned the Government’s approach to a proposed 114-mile string of electricity pylons across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, which could help carry electricity generated by offshore windfarms, calling for “a pause while the other options are considered”.
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