I ’m a UK Covid scientist. Here’s a sample of the abuse in my inbox

Messages may contain unhinged expletives, threatening tropes … or one of my interviews set to musicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“You scaremongering ignorant f.ing c., you and your retarded team made predictions that could have f.ed this country for billions of pounds, f.ed Christmas for a second time and cost thousands thier [sic] jobs only to have your most pessimistic ballshit [sic] now found to be just that. How f.s like you can sleep at night is beyond me and I hope you are f.ing held to account for what you have done and could have done if there weren’t some people in the government with a brain.”How would you like to get this in your inbox? As a senior scientist advising the government on Covid, I get this sort of email on a fairly regular basis. Indeed, (someone calling himself) Mr Roberts (who sent this) is a regular offender. What particularly upset me about this email was that it wasn ’t sent to me, but to a junior member of my team. Awful, isn’t it?Continue reading...
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