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JV: Ok, I just don’t want to get into things where we have the newspaper on the one hand and the expert on the other and we give them equal weight.Ĭ: A spokesperson from WHO, I think that that is an authority. In Taiwan and Singapore, what they did, early on, in week one, in February, everyone was wearing surgical masks…Ĭ: This is from a newspaper, this is from…Ĭ: Sorry, this is a spokesperson, this is a spokesperson, this is coming from a spokesperson from WHO. It’s not a fact.Ĭ: But I can, because this is what I read. You can have an opinion, but it’s not a fact. With the greatest respect, unless you have read every scientific paper and statistical modelling paper that’s come out, you cannot argue with me on that. But what will happen is that this is going to start circulating again as soon as they take that province out of lockdown. As a result of that they have managed dramatically to reduce the number of cases. What they have done is they have put the entire of Hubei province into lockdown for months. SJ: No, what has happened is that in China, there was one province – one city in particular, one province generally – who were affected. That will sort it.ĭr Sarah Jarvis (SJ): That is complete and utter… Caprice, you said, put the whole country in lockdown for two weeks. Jeremy Vine (JV): “Now we had this idea that if we put the whole country. I’ll come to why it’s complex and there is right on both sides – on Jarvis v Caprice – in a moment.įirst, the clip is worth watching, and if not here is the transcript: Kudos to Dr Jarvis for not flying across the studio and throttling her.”įour months later it all looks rather different.Ĭaprice advocated an early lockdown and highlighted the efforts taken by technologically advanced Asian states that have made the Brits look like complacent fools at worst for trusting the authorities and unlucky incompetents at best. “Please don’t give idiots like this airtime. “This may be the stupidest clip I’ve seen yet and a high bar has already been set,” she said. Kirstie Allsop, the property guru, was angry on social media. Jeremy had seemed uncomfortable with the “expert” being challenged too.
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On social media there was a pile-on by sophisticated persons, furious that Caprice would dare disagree with a doctor – an expert GP. She expressed her view that a two week lockdown should be introduced in Britain, and she cited the success Taiwan and Singapore had enjoyed by combating the disease by cracking down early.įor this Caprice was treated on the show – to my eye anyway, as an occasional viewer – as though she was a total idiot. Back in mid-March – you remember March? – the Jeremy Vine show on Britain’s Channel 5 attracted considerable criticism for inviting a celebrity panellist on to discuss the then looming pandemic with the show’s resident doctor, Sarah Jarvis.Ĭaprice is an American-born model and businesswoman.