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Did the Times Print an Urban Legend?
National Review ^ | July 14, 2020 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 07/15/2020 1:49:06 PM PDT by LouieFisk

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To: Billthedrill

Exactly.


21 posted on 07/15/2020 2:27:38 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: decal

“All The Urban Legends That Is Fit To Print.”

Wait. Weren’t we recently told that “urban” is racist?


22 posted on 07/15/2020 2:34:36 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: LouieFisk

“Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard from another you’ve been messing around”...

Aye, por favor-it is just the latest urban legend...


23 posted on 07/15/2020 2:37:41 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: LouieFisk

I pointed all this out when it was posted earlier.

If it were real the name, the party, others also infected at the same party etc...would be known or under investigation.

But it was an anecdote by a hospital administrator with zero actual information.


24 posted on 07/15/2020 2:38:06 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: LouieFisk
I thought the story was credited to The New York Times's ace reporter, Ben Trovato.
25 posted on 07/15/2020 2:38:55 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: PeterPrinciple

You mean, What does the leftist porn star and her tax evader husband say?


26 posted on 07/15/2020 2:41:12 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: supremedoctrine

No pictures with this story. You may be thinking of this one, which is a genuine:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/647139/virginia-pastor-dies-coronavirus-mardi-gras/


27 posted on 07/15/2020 2:41:18 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

Like that one reporter(?) who said he went through terrible pain and stuff with COVID and lied about it - never happened; even had fake pictures.


28 posted on 07/15/2020 2:45:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: ifinnegan

“But it was an anecdote by a hospital administrator with zero actual information.”

The woman should be fired - unless she can come up with something tangible on this.


29 posted on 07/15/2020 2:46:36 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

“... did not have any information “that would confirm (or deny)” that such an event had happened there”

They certainly would know if a 30 year old died of Wuflu.


30 posted on 07/15/2020 2:47:06 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: LouieFisk

Fake but Accurate


31 posted on 07/15/2020 3:04:30 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: LouieFisk
It would be easier and take less time to cite what is *not* fake new in the NYT.

Ha ha! They should issue corrections:

Some of the incidental details in our one of our recent stories entitled "Trump Lies Again" were capable of being independently verified. The Times regrets the lack of error.

32 posted on 07/15/2020 3:08:50 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: LouieFisk
If you see my obituary in the New York Slimes, just disregard it and watch for my posts on Free Republic.

Leni

33 posted on 07/15/2020 3:10:57 PM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: Texas resident

Good post.

11/03/20


34 posted on 07/15/2020 3:11:32 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent.)
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To: edwinland

Or, at the end of every news story, just print the word: “not!”.


35 posted on 07/15/2020 3:12:46 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30243-7/fulltext

This one says time from onset of symptoms to death was 17.8 days. 95% CI was 16.9 - 19.2). A standard deviation of 0.5 day would make this scenario essentially impossible.

Even a sd of 2 days would make it one in a billion.

Also incubation (time from infection to symptoms) is 2-14 days.


36 posted on 07/15/2020 4:12:52 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

Yeah, 4 days would be more believable.


37 posted on 07/15/2020 4:57:31 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

LOL, was this the one where the guy’s last words to some doctor or nurse were “I thought it was a hoax!” or something like that?


38 posted on 07/15/2020 5:34:44 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Hahahahahaha


39 posted on 07/15/2020 5:35:21 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: LouieFisk

I had read a story about younger people creating gambling pools on which of them would get covid first. Of course, that too could be totally fake news.

FWIW, I don’t think anybody believes covid is a hoax. If the events recounted are true, more than likely he thought that a “covid party” was the hoax, not that covid itself was a hoax.


40 posted on 07/15/2020 5:47:17 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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