was when I was walking down the street a few months ago - taking my hour of exercise, shopping - and a woman in front of me stopped to pull her face mask down, push a cigarette into her mouth, light it and walk on, puffing away.
Clearly had decided dying of cancer was preferable to dying of Covid 19.
Actually proving - media hype works. It overwhelms common sense with slogans and panic headlines.
Today a photo exhibition opens showing all the misery of remaining relatives & friends.
Nobody, we are told by media, mourns cancer deaths, road accident deaths, sepsis deaths, heart attack victims...,
No, they don't count. They are not part of our media crusade for a great story.
Coming up for 42,000 Covid linked deaths in the UK. 2017-2018 England & Wales alone 50,000 died in 3 months from flu linked causes.
Not a media story at the time.