South Wales Echo

Intensive care consultant warns of false online claims about the pandemic

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This has been the problem with social media. The ignorant feel that they have knowledge and power at last. They take some half baked conspiracy theory and run with it.

Gillian Rivers

Find it really bizarre when people say the hospitals are empty... the hospitals are not empty there are less people because routine appointmen­ts are being postponed non urgent operations are being dealt with differentl­y and clinics are run with smaller numbers so there’s minimal risk and keep staff and patients safe! Claire Louise Dean

We have the leaders of the

Newport Freedom Rally, clapped for the NHS, now slagging off the NHS and are the ones responsibl­e for spreading these wild conspiraci­es. They were sharing pictures of the unopened Grange hospital, a mere six miles away, saying it was somewhere else. Claire Hopkin

I wonder how many people say that NHS workers are liars stood on their doorsteps clapping for the same people they now don’t believe. And for all the people that say this virus is not real or a conspiracy, go to the wards where people are losing their lives on a daily basis, better still go and visit the families that have lost loved ones and tell them it’s all a load of rubbish.

Karen Meredith

spreading conspiracy theories? Lee Heggie

It’s a disgrace that a doctor has to make a statement like this defending the work being done as if things were not hard enough. Lilian Edwards

So when the government reports false figures and double counts corona deaths and the media report the same, are they too

People want economy over life or are misguided that being told to wear a mask is state control and next step communism. Then there are them that just have no empathy and are self-centred idiots.

Marilyn Harvey

Time we opened some gulags and send all the Covidiots and wibblers there. Let’s see how they get on. Paul MacMichael

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