The media is spreading fear

From what I have read they are getting $13k in FEMA funds for every COVID19 patient and $39k in FEMA funds for every COVID19 patient needing to be put on a ventilator.
Seems like a reasonable motive to me.
The old principle of follow the money.

I continue to maintain that believing this is a serious issue, believing the media is hyping & exaggerating it for ratings & agenda purposes, and believing that it is being used by some for political purposes are all 3 true statements. They aren't mutually exclusive and it isn't an either-or question at this point.

Excluding belief that this is a serious matter (I do believe), the rest of your post seems to indicate that our society is so far down the tubes that the grate back up to the gutter is out of sight already. Congratulations on summing up so much stupidity and depravity in so few words.

...and before anybody asks, yes, I'm serious.
 
I could be wrong (gasp! :D) but I think those numbers assumed little or no social distancing and business closures, in other words let the pandemic run its course and arrive somewhere near herd immunity ASAP.

Coronavirus: How to understand the death toll - BBC News

OK, so then are we to believe that 95% of the deaths were prevented by social distancing and shutting all non-essential businesses for less than a month? Really? 95%? Damn! We ought to shut everything down for 3 weeks at the beginning of flu season every year. We'd save 35,000 to 55,000 of the 40,000-60,000 who die of regular flu every year. Think of all the money we'd save on the vaccines too - we wouldn't even need them if 3 weeks of forced vacation/isolation is all it takes.

Coming back to reality, we haven't been that successful at managing to wipe out 95% of any other contagious viral disease, EVER. Even with vaccines and condoms and safe sex, and BILLIONS in research over the last 40 years, and every other preventative measure imaginable.

But in this case we are supposed to believe that we did - just by having about 75% or 80% of the people stay home for 3 weeks. Where they are still able to transmit it to anyone in their family of course.

IT'S A MIRACLE! I'm sorry, but that doesn't even make sense.
 
Excluding belief that this is a serious matter (I do believe), the rest of your post seems to indicate that our society is so far down the tubes that the grate back up to the gutter is out of sight already. Congratulations on summing up so much stupidity and depravity in so few words.

...and before anybody asks, yes, I'm serious.

If you question the depravity of our society, take a hard look around. Look at the bill Northam signed on Friday. Look at the stories of the way the homeless are living in Seattle and San Francisco. Look at the stories of looting happening during this (and every other) crisis. Look at the hucksters trying to peddle products based solely on the fear generated by this viral outbreak.
Anybody who doesn't think our country has sunk to new lows of depravity isn't paying attention. Dare I say even to the point of burying their head in the sand.
Greed and money are a powerful motivation.
Personally I am praying that this crisis helps open enough eyes to start pulling us back from the brink.
 
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"People are being arrested in some states for spending too much time outside, and you applaud. Pastors are being arrested in some states for daring to hold church services, and you applaud.

A child's birthday party is raided by police, and you applaud. A young woman is ticketed for going on a leisurely drive alone because it's deemed "non-essential travel", and you applaud. A father is handcuffed & arrested in an empty park for playing softball with his 6-year-old daughter & refusing to turn over his ID, and you applaud. A lone paddleboarder in the ocean on a beach without any other people around is arrested because he's violating quarantine orders, and you applaud.

You're being told to use hotlines and online forms provided by your local governments to report your neighbors who don't obey, and you comply. You scold people day after day for not obeying government edicts, and if any of us dare to question what's happening, you lecture about how we're a danger to society and and we just don't care about people dying.

You've somehow managed to convince yourselves that the people whose lives are affected by a virus are MUCH more important than the people whose lives are being destroyed (and in many cases, leading to death) by the effects of a worldwide economic shutdown and impending worldwide depression the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

If they told you to load your families onto train cars so that you could be taken to Virus Protection Facilities for your own safety, would you do it?

YES. Yes, you would. That much has become painfully obvious to me. And the whole time, you'd be shaking your finger and yelling at those of us who refused, accusing us of being "a danger to society" and "not caring if people die."

But they don't have to load you onto train cars and take you to Virus Protection Facilities, or force you to comply, because you do that voluntarily. The fake news controls your mind. They control you through fear. They control you by convincing you that the world is a scary dangerous place, but they're here to protect you, care for you, and keep you safe, just as long as you OBEY.

They know that as long as you're locked inside your comfortable home with Netflix, Hulu, CNN, NBC, ABC, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a cell phone, you'll comply. No force is necessary for the majority of the herd.

Bill Gates even recommends to mandate antibody tests. ONLY those who are immune from VIRUSES will be allowed to leave their homes & work. YOU ARE IMPRISONED, willingly, and you're too blind to see it."

- Author Unknown
 
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"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

"Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?…

"The Organs [State Police] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…

"We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
 
The big difference is we are armed. Another irony, the name of this thread is the media is spreading fear.
 
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The intent of this thread is to point out the dastardly deeds of the media. Lots of comments, maybe some have diverted the meaning a bit.

The fact is that CNN reported a false number, that made it look like NY CITY was much worse than it really is. (OK its really really bad there, but the true numbers need to be reported)

I don't know why they did that. Are they just plain stupid? Or was it a typo? Or was the reported told the wrong number? Or was it a deliberate piece of fake news?

I dunno, but it just confirms my personal policy of never listening to CNN.
 
I really hope that summer will wipe out this virus. If not we are going to have to revisit all the issues and numbers that have been discussed on this thread.

A second round would really stir emotions up. Especially with a election year coming up.

Certain parts of the world are not going to see the weather that hopefully will destroy this virus.
 
And they've shown footage of a chaotic hospital scene in Italy and claimed it was the US - not once, but TWICE. The same footage. After it being unmasked as a fraud the first time. They simply think that they can get away with it because their audience buys whatever they say. Hook, line, and sinker. Unfortunately they are right.

Another network put out a video of a "nurse" crying in front of the camera about the horrible conditions and lack of PPE she is being forced to work with. They didn't bother to fact check and discover she was a "crisis actor", and that she hadn't worked at a hospital for over a year.

Nothing being exaggerated, faked or misrepresented for the sake of sensation-driven ratings here. Nope. Not happening. I'm gonna' go hide under the bed. :rolleyes:
 
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What's a lie anymore. It's all a blur. You can say something one day and deny it the next. Just blame it on the fake news. Name a "news" outlet that hasn't got it wrong.
 
"People are being arrested in some states for spending too much time outside, and you applaud. Pastors are being arrested in some states for daring to hold church services, and you applaud.

A child's birthday party is raided by police, and you applaud. A young woman is ticketed for going on a leisurely drive alone because it's deemed "non-essential travel", and you applaud. A father is handcuffed & arrested in an empty park for playing softball with his 6-year-old daughter & refusing to turn over his ID, and you applaud. A lone paddleboarder in the ocean on a beach without any other people around is arrested because he's violating quarantine orders, and you applaud.

You're being told to use hotlines and online forms provided by your local governments to report your neighbors who don't obey, and you comply. You scold people day after day for not obeying government edicts, and if any of us dare to question what's happening, you lecture about how we're a danger to society and and we just don't care about people dying.

You've somehow managed to convince yourselves that the people whose lives are affected by a virus are MUCH more important than the people whose lives are being destroyed (and in many cases, leading to death) by the effects of a worldwide economic shutdown and impending worldwide depression the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

If they told you to load your families onto train cars so that you could be taken to Virus Protection Facilities for your own safety, would you do it?

YES. Yes, you would. That much has become painfully obvious to me. And the whole time, you'd be shaking your finger and yelling at those of us who refused, accusing us of being "a danger to society" and "not caring if people die."

But they don't have to load you onto train cars and take you to Virus Protection Facilities, or force you to comply, because you do that voluntarily. The fake news controls your mind. They control you through fear. They control you by convincing you that the world is a scary dangerous place, but they're here to protect you, care for you, and keep you safe, just as long as you OBEY.

They know that as long as you're locked inside your comfortable home with Netflix, Hulu, CNN, NBC, ABC, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a cell phone, you'll comply. No force is necessary for the majority of the herd.

Bill Gates even recommends to mandate antibody tests. ONLY those who are immune from VIRUSES will be allowed to leave their homes & work. YOU ARE IMPRISONED, willingly, and you're too blind to see it."

- Author Unknown




Who exactly is "applauding":confused: The "News" is reporting the events. Of course we do not know both sides of the story. How is that different then posting a article from an unknown author? The media is always leading with the stuff the grabs viewership no different today than any other day



Here are videos. notice ALL the POLICE. Are any of them taking protective measures, gloves face masks?? No, so rather than blame the media if you want to blame someone, blame those who enacted the "rules legislation laws"
Three or 4 incidents out for the entire Country?? Don't look at the News then


Watch the Birthday party video!


Police issue citation, fine woman who was just 'going on a drive' amid coronavirus stay-at-home order - TheBlaze


Father arrested for playing with daughter in park, citing coronavirus restrictions


LAPD Shutdown 1 Year Old Birthday Party Due To Social Distancing Rule - FlyHeight
 
Anyone try Google News? It is a collection of different reporting from around the country and world. You can pick and choose from opposing ideologies . Get a perspective from both sides.
 
And they've shown footage of a chaotic hospital scene in Italy and claimed it was the US - not once, but TWICE. The same footage.

People love to bash Buffalo. I don't know why. If you live here and hate it, then MOVE. If you don't live here why does it matter to you.

I used to travel for business. A lot. One morning I woke up in a Holiday Inn Express and turned on the TV to see the daily news. The lead story was about a massive snow storm and accidents and school and business closings. Before I even got my pants on I called my wife. Actually woke her up. She said "what are you talking about...wait a minute". She came back after looking out the window and said the sun is shining and the front yard is green grass.

Got the Buffalo Mayor all riled up. Turned out the news clip was from a previous YEAR, and it wasn't even in Buffalo.
 
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