Posted on 04/25/2021 8:58:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For a long time, Americans were hungry for doomsday coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and establishment media outlets were happy to oblige.
The phenomenon led to “doomscrolling,” which Dr. Ariane Ling, a psychologist and assistant professor at New York University’s Langone Health, described as “the act of endlessly scrolling down one’s news apps, Twitter and social media and reading bad news.”
“In the efforts to make information accessible to all, many major news resources like [The New York Times] are offering coverage of COVID for free,” Ling told Healthline in July. “This creates both less barriers to being informed, but it also adds to the abundance of doomsday headlines out there.”
The crippling fear of COVID-19 fueled by media handwringing was reflected in public polling.
In June, the Pew Research Center found that 58 percent of Americans believed the coronavirus pandemic was a major problem.
In a follow-up survey published last August, 62 percent of voters said the pandemic would play a very important role in determining their choice for president. The survey polled 11,001 U.S. adults from July 27 to Aug. 2 and had a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.
The puzzle pieces have shifted since then.
Prophecies of doom and gloom no longer weigh on people’s minds, and the country is eager to return to normal. It’s certainly been long enough.
Since President Joe Biden took office, however, Americans have been forced to turn their attention to the southern border.
Pew’s latest poll reflects that shift.
“The share of Americans saying the coronavirus is a very big problem has declined 11 percentage points since last June (from 58% to 47%), while the share citing illegal immigration has increased 20 points (from 28% to 48%),” Pew reported on April 15.
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There is a threat on the border? Really? I have not heard about that. Some people are actually claiming there’s a crisis on the border, but I don’t believe that. Our president and or vice president surely would have gone to the border in an attempt to solve that crisis. To solve that threat.
The real threat is white cops are shooting innocent black people five and six times a day. I recently saw on NBC where a little teenage girl did not have a knife as she encountered a girl in pink. Yet a mean evil White cop shot her dead. For no reason.
...and in our cities.
Whose streets?
Their streets!
Oops, how did that get on this thread?
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