WhooHoo FluMongering: CJR just comes right out and says it
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Thu Feb 27 10:51:01 PST 2020
Downplaying the COVID-19 threat has become a
formulaic cognitive trigger dismissal.
Perhaps wise but there have been disasters in the
past by such wise-ass downplaying: plague, VD,
smallpox, polio, measles, mental illness,
genocide, AIDS, opiods, suicide, environmental
damage, sexual predation, et al.
The worst are intolerant religion and war-making,
this two-backed beast is widely blessed and
boosted by profit-making adherents no matter the
great harm the cause, both sensationalized to the
maximum. Their leaders wear funny-looking
garments and jewelry, are obsessed with rank,
ceremony, public displays and above all
fund-raising by scaring the shit out of people
with endless murdering onslaughts supported by extorted tithes and taxes.
No surprise that journalism sucks up to them, that's its purpose.
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>"Why COVID-19 is not the problem" (but the sensationalized reporting and
>ignorant reactionary humans sure are!)
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>"So why is so much attention being paid to COVID-19? First, because itâs
>new, and spreading. But as Max Fisher wrote in the New York Times,
>COVID-19 âhits nearly every cognitive trigger we have.â 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.
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>And social media spreads the rumors, fake cures, and other untruths that
>we wonât link to, but include words like âgenocideâ and âZionist
>conspiracy.â
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>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."
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>Â https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/covid-19-coronavirus.php
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