jimnyc
06-23-2020, 01:44 PM
Of course they ignore this. Too busy with panicking about outbreaks, and Trump making things worse. Telling this takes away a lot of fear and might make you think we're on a much better path now, can't have that!
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Media ignores 90% coronavirus death collapse in country
On Sunday a major positive milestone was reached for the first time, coronavirus deaths declined by 90% in this country from the high set on April 21st. That’s an incredibly positive story about our national battle with the virus. Yet, shockingly, it has received almost no media attention.
That’s indefensible because this is not complicated data to track down. You can see it yourself on this chart here, on April 21st 2,693 people died of the coronavirus. Yesterday 267 died. Putting that number into perspective, an average of 7200 people died on Sunday of something other than the coronavirus and those deaths received almost no media attention at all.
https://i.imgur.com/QuT0bWb.png
That’s a monstrous 90% drop in deaths the space of two months, a tremendous sign of positivity which clearly suggests that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak has now passed. But the media mostly ignored it in favor of a continuing embrace of fear porn. (For the coronabros out there, yes Sunday tends to be the lowest day of the week, but if you want to use the seven day moving average instead of Sunday, the data still reflects a 70+% decline in mortality, a similarly wildly positive story.)
Yet look at all the Monday morning headlines that have been collated by Outkick readers beneath my original tweet featuring the New York Times own Monday morning web headline, which didn’t even take note of the collapsing death totals. This is a particularly glaring failure in light of the New York Times electing to make its cover story last month a recitation of people who had died of the coronavirus.
Almost no mainstream media outlets in the country have made note of the collapsing coronavirus death total in this country.
Why is that?
It’s certainly not because the media is attempting to share fair and balanced journalism with its audience, it’s because they’ve recognized fear porn drives engagement, even if it isn’t reflecting reality. Scaring people to death works. Emotion is the coin of the social media realm and logical analysis of facts is disfavored if it doesn’t elicit the same firestorm of social media pandemonium.
Put simply, the mainstream media doesn’t exist to inform any longer, it exists to emote.
Rest - https://outkick.com/media-ignores-90-coronavirus-death-collapse-in-country/
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Media ignores 90% coronavirus death collapse in country
On Sunday a major positive milestone was reached for the first time, coronavirus deaths declined by 90% in this country from the high set on April 21st. That’s an incredibly positive story about our national battle with the virus. Yet, shockingly, it has received almost no media attention.
That’s indefensible because this is not complicated data to track down. You can see it yourself on this chart here, on April 21st 2,693 people died of the coronavirus. Yesterday 267 died. Putting that number into perspective, an average of 7200 people died on Sunday of something other than the coronavirus and those deaths received almost no media attention at all.
https://i.imgur.com/QuT0bWb.png
That’s a monstrous 90% drop in deaths the space of two months, a tremendous sign of positivity which clearly suggests that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak has now passed. But the media mostly ignored it in favor of a continuing embrace of fear porn. (For the coronabros out there, yes Sunday tends to be the lowest day of the week, but if you want to use the seven day moving average instead of Sunday, the data still reflects a 70+% decline in mortality, a similarly wildly positive story.)
Yet look at all the Monday morning headlines that have been collated by Outkick readers beneath my original tweet featuring the New York Times own Monday morning web headline, which didn’t even take note of the collapsing death totals. This is a particularly glaring failure in light of the New York Times electing to make its cover story last month a recitation of people who had died of the coronavirus.
Almost no mainstream media outlets in the country have made note of the collapsing coronavirus death total in this country.
Why is that?
It’s certainly not because the media is attempting to share fair and balanced journalism with its audience, it’s because they’ve recognized fear porn drives engagement, even if it isn’t reflecting reality. Scaring people to death works. Emotion is the coin of the social media realm and logical analysis of facts is disfavored if it doesn’t elicit the same firestorm of social media pandemonium.
Put simply, the mainstream media doesn’t exist to inform any longer, it exists to emote.
Rest - https://outkick.com/media-ignores-90-coronavirus-death-collapse-in-country/