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re: Daily COVID Updated as of 11/2/20 8:00 PM
Posted on 8/3/20 at 11:13 pm to Chromdome35
Posted on 8/3/20 at 11:13 pm to Chromdome35
NYT article that actually approaches something resembling a cost/benefit analysis
My daily exasperation is mostly over how virtually every media outlet literally only reports on one metric: covid deaths. Nothing about suicide, mental health, child abuse, crowding out of other disease treatment, starvation, etc. NOTHING.
I was surprised to see this article sort of did go there:
My daily exasperation is mostly over how virtually every media outlet literally only reports on one metric: covid deaths. Nothing about suicide, mental health, child abuse, crowding out of other disease treatment, starvation, etc. NOTHING.
I was surprised to see this article sort of did go there:
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‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus. Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
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Posted on 8/3/20 at 11:22 pm to Big Scrub TX
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My daily exasperation is mostly over how virtually every media outlet literally only reports on one metric: covid deaths. Nothing about suicide, mental health, child abuse, crowding out of other disease treatment, starvation, etc. NOTHING.
There has actually been quite a bit written about it. Not necessarily "reported" because that would take a media not politicizing the flu, but quite a few "experts" write about it, and I tend to believe these experts because they're never found on the cover of Style magazine.
It's been known for a while that the human cost of lockdowns will be more than an order of magnitude greater than lives saved by them.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 8:30 am to Big Scrub TX
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My daily exasperation is mostly over how virtually every media outlet literally only reports on one metric: covid deaths.
Mine, too. This tradition goes back to Vietnam coverage where the press used that metric as a hammer against the administration. Back then, they started it against LBJ, but escalated against Nixon.
For OIF/OEF, they did it to W, but then dropped that type of reporting (and certainly the emphasis on the death count) during Obama.
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