Posted on 04/12/2020 8:13:23 PM PDT by rintintin
Don Lemon is a horrendously dangerous ignorant drug commentator.
It seems like they don't want to admit there's an extremely cheap and effective treatment.
This isn't new - this isn't something they have to study forever. A ton of studying was done with SARS:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21079686
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/29/zinc-ions-and-fight-against-sars
Yep!
Anonymous source red flag.
Worse, even if the source exists, on the face of it, it's not a statement by a witness. It doesn't say, "according to two people who were at the meeting." (Or even one "people.")
In other words, it's OBVIOUSLY a made-up anecdote, or they would have worded it differently. So it's a whole story based on nothing at all. And that's standard operating procedure in today's "mainstream" press.
When I came up in that business, if you turned in a story like that, your editor would laugh and kick you back to your desk to "do your f*cking job." And if you pulled crap like that again, fire you. Liberal, conservative, didn't matter.
Only with the Clinton administration and its kneepad news coverage did you start to hear reporters even joke that an anecdote was "too good to fact-check."
It was a matter of basic professional self-respect that, even if you really loved a quote or anecdote for story-telling power, or because it helped your favored political party, you would never run with it if it didn't check out. There was too much hell to pay--looking like an incompetent, your paper's reputation going into the toilet, libel lawsuits--if you let something factually wrong in ANY way go to print. "Print is forever," they would say.
An excellent counter-example is Walter (cough, cough) Duranty. But he was a 1 percent exception. It's unimaginable how things have changed in the press. They just make sh*t up.
The Enemedia needs a few RPGs.
I think the Swine Flu of 2009-2010 was a variant of the Spanish Flu.
Re: CDC - thousands of hits on their website for topics like Diversity, Climate Change, and Transgender. Plenty of time for all that content, those studies.
Pandemics? Lots of hits, too, but clearly not ready.
“I think the Swine Flu of 2009-2010 was a variant of the Spanish Flu.”
that would make sense ...
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