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Local media’s coverage of cv19 has been egregious. This is a headline from fort bend

Posted on 8/21/20 at 12:00 am
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69399 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 12:00 am



They are trying to SPIN IT AS A BAD THING that people are demanding less testing aka people aren’t feeling as many symptoms aka spread is slowing.

Local media has

1) hyped up false stories about hospitals being overrun

2) chosen to heavily focus on tragic outliers of people under 50 dying, without including disclaimers in these articles that the overall data indicates for people under 50, it is not deadlier than flu.

3) misread various studies in ways that makes studies sound more alarming than they are


Local media here in the OC and LA market has been a disgrace. I’m sure Louisiana media is similar.
Posted by sand mountainDvalues
Member since Oct 2018
8718 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 12:04 am to
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While hospitalization rates for the virus appear to be decreasing, with the recovery rate of those infected appears to be increasing


lol this is all that needs to be said, and it’s almost impressive that the media can take that info and still attempt to spin it as a bad thing
Posted by tgrgrd00
Kenner, LA
Member since Jun 2004
8592 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 12:12 am to
The media is the enemy of this country. They are so far away from true journalism these days it's unbelievable.

How some people can't see this is beyond me. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that they report with a slant and agenda constantly.

Why can't the media just report the fricking news? Why does every article and/or story have to have an agenda? It's insane.
Posted by Pico de Gallo
Member since Aug 2016
1894 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 12:17 am to
I don’t remember the exact number, but I do believe the governor of Louisiana said the majority of the positive cases are from asymptomatic people.
Posted by Marco Esquandolas
Member since Jul 2013
11432 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 1:49 am to
In just two short paragraphs, there were numerous violations of grammar/spelling/writing.

They don’t even proofread the shite they churn out.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142549 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 2:07 am to
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Local media’s coverage of cv19 has been egregious
Posted by ell_13
Member since Apr 2013
85172 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 2:51 am to
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I do believe the governor of Louisiana said the majority of the positive cases are from asymptomatic people.
Actually, just two weeks ago he said the exact opposite. He said nearly all tests done were on people showing symptoms. He was trying to drum up fear that there were many more people walking around with it and spreading it to others without knowing. This was when he was trying to scare people into wearing masks. But then the Ochsner study came out where 60% of those positive showed no symptoms at all, and he spun it as if it proved his point even though the percent positive was in line with the current trend. In other words, we had been testing people without symptoms. He basically gave us a study that proved he had been lying.
Posted by vtdad
WV side of Bluefield,WV
Member since Dec 2009
1001 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 5:17 am to
Proves how the MSM played the whole thing up to fit the liberal agenda.
Posted by LSU-MNCBABY
Knightsgate
Member since Jan 2004
24376 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 6:18 am to
Don’t consume local media. Problem solved
Posted by Croozin2
Somewhere on the water
Member since Dec 2004
3193 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 6:35 am to
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Don’t consume any media.


FIFY
Posted by Mr Sausage
Cat Spring, Texas
Member since Oct 2011
12867 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 7:17 am to
KP will milk this and “racist” for all it’s worth. So glad we moved out west to God’s Country.
Posted by Clint Eastwood
Member since May 2015
229 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 7:42 am to
60% don’t show symptoms I believe.
Posted by p0845330
Member since Aug 2013
5704 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 8:01 am to
Ol’ Phil apparently doesn’t proofread, and neither does his editor.
Posted by RB10
Member since Nov 2010
44066 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 8:55 am to
My stepdad got it a couple of weeks ago. He’s over 60, nearly died from kidney failure two years ago because he was an alcoholic and still has several complications from it, has neuropathy in his feet and legs, is about 30 pounds overweight, has been a chain smoker for 40 years and is just generally in bad health.

His worst symptoms have been lethargy for a couple of days. On top of that, the doctors told him not to worry about more positive tests in the next couple of months because after you recover the antibodies present positive results even though you no longer have symptoms and are no longer contagious.

Also, my girlfriends friend’s parents, who are both extremely overweight, got it. Their worst symptoms were about like a normal head cold.

This obviously doesn’t tell the whole story, but it tells a lot of it for me. I’m over this shite.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62923 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 8:57 am to
The last Covid19 fear mongering article to be published by America's pathetic media will be something along the lines of "Unused ventilators will further fill up our already stressed landfills"
Posted by Anaximander
3524 Third St New Orleans, LA
Member since Jun 2018
3412 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 9:01 am to
Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

This cabal of media, academics and politicians has desired the control they now have for some time and will lie to keep us in a State of Fear.
Posted by 3nOut
Central Texas, TX
Member since Jan 2013
29031 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 9:28 am to
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They are trying to SPIN IT AS A BAD THING


The media as a whole will take any statistic and turn it bad.


We’ve had so many deaths compared to the world!!!!

Well yeah, we’re the third most populated county and you know China’s numbers will be shite. We’re exactly average to any other 1st world country.

Testing!!!

We’ve done 40 million more tests than 2nd place... India, which has > 3x our population. (Again, China has done more than us but they only claim 5k dead... so do with that what you will.)

Opening schools is dangerous.

15 school age children have died of Coronavirus. Pediatricians say to do it. Parents want to do it. Letting kids get to school and catch it is the safest way to herd immunity in that age group possible.

Testing numbers are decreasing rapidly.

Less people are having symptoms or coming into contact with C19 positive people? The horror.


It won’t end. Everything good that will happen the next 3 months will be spun into bad news by the media.
Posted by Epaminondas
The Boot
Member since Jul 2020
4258 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 9:54 am to
So it's not just here that the local media sucks. I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse.
Posted by scott8811
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
11405 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 10:02 am to
This thing is ending..they can feel it

The good thing at least in my area is that people have calling the media out on this bullshite. The comments section have gone from "mask up and stay safe" "this is serious" People need to be cautious" to "go to hell with your fake numbers" Stop fear mongering" etc. People are waking up.
This post was edited on 8/21/20 at 10:04 am
Posted by pelicanpride
Houston
Member since Oct 2007
1303 posts
Posted on 8/21/20 at 10:25 am to
We live in Fort Bend. My husband tested positive for Strep yesterday, and the doctor at the urgent care still did a COVID test just to be 100% certain that wasn’t the cause of his sore throat and fever. If COVID tests are being used in circumstances like that, we have plenty of tests to go around.
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