Bbc Reporter

[lankeela]

Why on earth did he have to be filmed stood outside Gatwick Airport? Can there be anyone watching BBC News who does not know what Gatwick Airport looks like? Why send a reporter and a cameraman there just to tell us that Virgin Atlantic are going to cut their operations. What chance do we have of getting this thing under control when people are still making unnecessary journeys.

[jno]

tomus, the OP suggested that unnecessary journeys like a reporter going to Gatwick will make it harder to get Covid 19 under control. I disagree; I don't think it will have any impact on the course of the virus at all. I also believe broadcasting is an essential service. At any rate, Piers Morgan apparently is.

[tomus42]

// I also believe broadcasting is an essential service //

They're probably classified as key workers, but that's irrelevant. A nurse couldn't go and sit on the park without being told to go home by the police, despite the fact that sitting on the park well away from others would also have no impact on the course of the virus.

[webbo3]

Elliemay, this is better.