WhooHoo FluMongering: CJR just comes right out and says it

[Razer]

"Why COVID-19 is not the problem" (but the sensationalized reporting and
ignorant reactionary humans sure are!)

"So why is so much attention being paid to COVID-19? First, because it’s
new, and spreading. But as Max Fisher wrote in the New York Times,
COVID-19 “hits nearly every cognitive trigger we have.” Its novelty and
the uncertainty around it override the recognition that other diseases,
including flu, are far more endemic and dangerous.

He likens the reaction to that after a plane crash, when people shun
flying even though a crash is an anomaly and flying is overwhelmingly safe.

And social media spreads the rumors, fake cures, and other untruths that
we won’t link to, but include words like “genocide” and “Zionist
conspiracy.”

Journalists have the responsibility to put things in context. Cover
COVID-19 and its effects, be they economic, physical, or social. But
acknowledge its place in the pantheon of disease. Reporting as if it
were the end of the world is an epidemic of a different kind."

 https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/covid-19-coronavirus.php


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