As the Pandemic Killed Millions, Callous Press Celebrated Environmental ‘Silver Lining’

Newsbusters.org ^ | 4/22/2021 | Scott Whitlock, Bill D'Agastino

[rktman]

On the April 22, 2020 episode of Today, Al Roker celebrated the environmental upside as the economy ground to a halt: “Less foot traffic, less waste, less energy consumption, allowing certain animals to thrive and impacting the Earth's atmosphere as well.” For the same day’s CBS This Morning, Jamie Yuccas offered a theme that would become common. Humans were the problem:

This stinging dismissal for the mounting death toll culminated in the spring of 2021. On the April 1 Today, Kerry Sanders lectured viewers even as many may have lost someone to Covid-19: “When the nation and world shut down, Planet Earth got a rare break...” He featured University of Miami professor Ben Kirtman who offered this alarming take on the coronavirus: “It's a gift to the science, but it's also a gift to us. To society. To the human race. It demonstrates we can do this.”

[rktman]

Well gee golly. Shouldn't nanzi be calling a presser to thank all those that have sacrificed their lives in order to help bring about climate just-us? Didn't used to be a H8er. Times change.

[frank ballenger]

Less foot traffic, less waste, less energy consumption....((with everyone huddled at home wearing a mask and the economy destroyed....))

How about less Al Roker?

And not just because of his famous surgically enabled weight loss.

[Nateman]

In the Sun every second 4 million tons of matter are converted to pure energy. Most of that energy is radiated away uselessly into space. Nature wastes more energy than people could even dream of wasting.

[brownsfan]

The number of deaths is so overstated. I saw somewhere that the number of deaths in the US, from all causes, didn’t change from 2019 to 2020.

I think the ruling class is capable of anything. I would be very surprised if the climate change impact wasn’t part of the calculation of letting the Wuflu go. It’s awfully convenient that the pandemic happened at a time when infrastructure would allow many to keep working from home.

Coincidences are rare.

[monkeyshine]

Spoiler alert to Al Roker. Bambi’s mom dies in the opening scene.

[palmer]

I saw somewhere that the number of deaths in the US, from all causes, didn’t change from 2019 to 2020.

The number of deaths rose in 2020, dramatically. The 2020 death numbers are from NCHS but I verified some with state data.

Year	Total Deaths	Total U.S. Population
1999	2,391,399	279,040,168
2000	2,403,351	281,421,906
2001	2,416,425	284,968,955
2002	2,443,387	287,625,193
2003	2,448,288	290,107,933
2004	2,397,615	292,805,298
2005	2,448,017	295,516,599
2006	2,426,264	298,379,912
2007	2,423,712	301,231,207
2008	2,471,984	304,093,966
2009	2,437,163	306,771,529
2010	2,468,435	308,745,538
2011	2,515,458	311,591,917
2012	2,543,279	313,914,040
2013	2,596,993	316,128,839
2014	2,626,418	318,857,056
2015	2,712,630	321,418,820
2016	2,744,248	323,127,513
2017	2,813,503	325,719,178
2018	2,839,205	327,167,434
2019	2,845,796	328,239,523
2020	3,356,656	331,002,651

Not sure why the population rose so much in 2020, but perhaps they added more illegals.