Posted on 03/28/2020 7:09:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A couple of weeks ago, we saw media outlets report that "experts" predicted that 500,000 would die in Great Britain and two million in the U.S.
Now those wild made-up predictions have been lowered to 20,000 or below in Britain and to 80,000 in the U.S.
Here's the news item:
"Imperial College scientist who predicted 500K coronavirus deaths in UK adjusts to 20K or fewer"
So those predictions of less than two weeks ago, used to spread panic and depression and used to justify shutting down much of the economy, were at least 96% off. Why would anyone think the new estimates are any closer and continue to call these people experts when they missed their original estimates by almost 100%?
Andrew Cuomo and others just make up that the rest of the country will soon look like New York City, and the media treat him as if he were an expert, too.
Yet President Trump is lectured continuously by the press puppets, who just repeat what they are told, that he should never question experts. The media are so scared that the public will like what Trump is doing that they are censoring him as they pretend they are for transparency and the truth.
Let's put the 80,000 deaths in the U.S. in perspective. In an average year, around 2.4 million people die from all causes in the U.S., and 80,000 would be a little over 3%. Also, most of the people who are dying from this virus are elderly people with other severe medical conditions.
How many people will get sick or die from other conditions because of the tunnel-vision focus on the Chinese virus? How many people will get extremely ill, mentally and physically, and panic because they are constantly being scared to death by the media?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Doom headlines sell.
I have always had trouble with the media calling people “experts” who are frequently spectacularly wrong and are pushing agendas, most often radical left-wing agendas, seeking more government control and less freedom for the people.
For example:
In 1970, to push a left-wing agenda, on the first Earth Day, scientists and others intentionally scared the public by saying billions would die soon because of a coming ice age and starvation and said we would soon be out of oil and other natural resources. The media just went along with these made-up predictions that were 100% wrong.
In 1989, the experts at the U.N. intentionally scared the public when they said we had only ten years left to solve the global warming problem. Most of the media, along with entertainers and other Democrats, just repeated the warnings that were 100% wrong because of the radical left-wing agenda they support.
Because the media feeds on negativity - “yellow journalism”. Sells papers and readership.
Also becsue they hate Trump and America and would love to see both taken down.
Worse still, much of the radical media outlets no longer want the public to see Trump. Instead they want to continue to scare them. Community health clinics are going broke because of this continuous panic-mongering.
Hundreds of health care facilities in Illinois that largely serve low-income and minority communities are facing financial chaos because they’ve canceled most routine doctor visits in an attempt to stymie the coronavirus pandemic, according to an industry organization’s report.
Because drama and hysteric drive clicks and viewers thus generating ad revenue for the Fake News. Hysteria and drama sells,
If US people stopped being sucked in, the Fake New might change. As long as we are continue buying their defect product, we fuel their idiocy.
Because it $ELL$
Because they say what the media want to hear: gloom, despair, and misery.
Well the idiocy was fueled here by a decent-sized number of people and at the end if this thing isn’t incredibly staggering and it’s numbers of victims they should be called out.
They have led a terror campaign here for months now and it’s been disgusting.
But they will just say the quarantine is what kept it from being millions. People like that always have answers
Nope. Zombie apocalypse is real. Stay tuned for latest hot zone alerts. Orange man bad.
The monica media only reports what its masters tell them to report and in the manner of reporting it.
The monica media is owned by communists, both domestic and China. Orange Man Bad.... /s
They are actually counting the Covid-19 infected and dead.
While for “flu” they extrapolate using models and include deaths for people who do not test positive for flu. The normal yearly supposed number of flu cases and deaths are a fantasy. I believe it may have been during the Obama Administration (?) when they came up with these silly “statistics” for flu deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm#References
I was good friends with one of the legendary news anchors in Charlotte NC. Numerous times he told me the way news organizations decide which news stories to run is based on “If it bleeds it leads”. This is just another variation of that mantra.
Because it sells, is incredibly cheap to produce, and provides outsourcing jobs to to severely compromised politicians and their staffs.
If it bleeds it leads. If it’s sex that’s next. If you SAY people are gonna die, that’s kinda bleeding.
Experts think they got educated when they really got brainwashed.
We really have just started this.
We’ll be up to a million plus cases by this time next week.
Two million this week after.
Here’s an ER nurse. This is where you or your family members will be running for help should, God forbid, it comes your way.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-GX-D1DKJ_/?utm_source=ig_embed
The healthcare providers at one NYC hospital were using trash bags for safety.
Tennessee told it’s healthcare providers they could use a diaper on their face if they didn’t have an N95 mask and pool goggles.
But keep on denying it. Maybe it’ll just go away ...
Have we learned nothing from the Weather Channel and its years of histrionics over incoming hurricanes that turn out to be duds? The people love the drama and tune in every time. The reporters fake bending in the wind while dudes in shorts play frisbee behind them; the terrible floods that are knee deep; and on and on. Great ratings regardless of how exaggerated it all is. And now we are a decade or two into governors preemptively closing all the roads for anticipated snow storms. The country is weak, sedentary and easily led.
Partisan Media Shills update.
You absolutely nail it.
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