@chameleon54 wrote:
@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Trump has been lying to his own people too, at one stage calling covid-19 a 'hoax'. Latest figures put the number infected in the U.S at over 600 with 23 deaths. That's about 150 new cases since Sunday.
I think if you convert Trump speak to " normal " English, his claim has some merit. 23 deaths from a population of 331,002, 651 people is so statistically minuscule that it is not even worth doing the math. In any given year the U.S. expects to have 12,000 people die from regular flu, so the current deaths from Coronavirus in the U.S are even nothing more than a statistical blip in " normal " flu statistics.
If you extrapolate the damage that is being caused to global economies ( and think of the U.S. in this example ) it is completely disproportionate to the existing problem. We have seen this in Australia with the mass toilet paper hysteria. A completely irrational , crazy reaction to the disease.
In the past, media sources recognised they had a responsibility to provide factual, accurate information without the hype. Now social media and trashy, hyped up traditional media sources such the morning shows, " the Project " and even the ABC are contributing to mass panic.
Everything has to be sensationalised. You see a headline and when you read the article it's nothing like what the headline indicated it might be. The ABC is just as bad as everyone else. Well, hopefully not as bad as 60 Minutes. I wouldn't EVER believe anything that mob says! I was looking through some ABC news articles before and a lot of it was just hype - the sort that causes panic.
I have a friend who says you can't even trust the New York Times any more, or other similar newspapers. I think a lot of the newspaper owners are too involved in politics and only want to print what suits their own cause, or the publicly owned news services like the ABC seem to just want to keep up with the others with their sensationalism. What they don't realise is that the more serious people who once listened to them are turned off by the hype and they lose more of their audience than the ones they gain.
There are a few news sites that are more accurate but they're few and far between, and a lot of what they report gets suppressed (or nobody wants to believe it so it's just not reported). My friend tells me a few things he reads but I don't have the time to keep up with what he reads. He was accused of being a conspiracy nut when he told a lot of people what was going on in Guantanamo Bay several years before it became public. Even when it all became more widely known, people still ridiculed him. They just don't want to know.
