“ This is a reminder not to dismiss the possibility of children getting severe illness.”
I’m convinced of something now that I didn’t believe before.
They, the denying masses, and large, certain groups of people among us, are going to hang on to their narratives till the bitter end.
If it was 10% kids die, they’d say it’s only 10%, media is stirring panic.
If they are used to seeing everything in terms of gender, race, or sexual identity, they are going to continue to see things and talk about things in that way no matter what happens.
Certain people are going to make it all about politics. You could have 50% death rate and they’d still be blaming the other side.
I could go on and on with examples.
It’s like they are the programmed characters in a video game. There is no reason behind the will, they just operate on the software program they are loaded with.
Agreed, you nailed it on the head
****
Coronavirus: Two more confirmed cases in Punjab; number rises to 33 in India
India has reported a total of 33 cases so far and around 29,607 people have been kept under observation at the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) netwok for novel coronavirus till March 5
Bloomberg
@business
·
8m
JUST IN: The head of Italy’s Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, said he’s tested positive for the coronavirus
Current Iranian Official Numbers
(Source is Iran, via RT, so unknown veracity)
“On Friday, Iran’s Ministry of Health reported that the number of confirmed cases had jumped by 1,234 over just one day and had almost reached 4,800. The national coronavirus death toll had increased to 124 over the same period.”
https://www.rt.com/newsline/482558-newly-elected-iranian-mp-dies/
Buster—Great post about the “narrative”.
It is really a form of denial.
When we see it on the left we call it virtue signaling.
I am special and cool and the other guy is a Neanderthal and evil.
It has been very disappointing and irritating to see it here.
But—I think it is curable.
We have to gently but firmly point out facts that contradict the narrative—over and over and over again.
(Thinking about the posters here that refused to the believe the quarantines in Italy were real. They thought they were just an invention of the Trump hating mass media—like wtf?)
We are all human. We all have flaws. So does everybody else.
This is a great teaching moment—for everybody. (Some learn more quickly than others. ;-) )