Ron Paul: The Media is lying about the COVID-19 second wave. "Resist propaganda and defend your liberty. That is the only way we’ll get through this."

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[–]soundsalad[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For months, the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media kept a morbid Covid-19 “death count” on their front pages and at the top of their news broadcasts. The coronavirus outbreak was all about the number of dead. The narrative was intended to boost governors like Cuomo in New York and Whitmer in Michigan, who turned their states authoritarian under the false notion that destroying people’s jobs, freedom, and lives would somehow keep a virus from doing what viruses always do: spread through a population until eventually losing strength and dying out.

The “death count” was always the headline.

But then all of a sudden early in June the mainstream media did a George Orwell and lectured us that it is all about “cases” and has always been all about “cases.” Death, and especially infection fatality rate, were irrelevant. Why? Because from the peak in April, deaths had decreased by 90 percent and were continuing to crash. That was not terrifying enough so the media pretended this good news did not exist.

Great point. Didn't think about this before.

[–]lmao_bruh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty wild when you think about it, if you look at the deaths/day it's pretty much been the same nationwide as it's been throughout all of June which is to say very low (About the same deaths/day we had at the end of March).

I understand that NJ/NY were the places with the biggest population that got hit the hardest and they're down by a lot right now but even so, the fact that more people are testing positive shouldn't come as a surprise since the rest of the country was lagging behind the east on cases anyway. Keep an eye on the death count and the hospitalizations in "Hot zones" I think we're going to be OK.