Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it true.”
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Good post .True story, My younger wife listened to the fake news for months, endless fear being peddled, her mental health deteriorated to a degree our kids started asking “ what happened to Mom”? I had enough, I cancelled our Cable, no more CNN, MSNBC, no more misinformation and fear peddling. Her Covid fear has now subsided after a few months of no TV, but my kids are now on me to get cable back,,,,,No way, ever again.
“cancelled cable”
Wow. Brave man. My kids would have been apoplectic and had me impeached. 😂
Sorry to hear your story. The virus is real, but so are the numbers that are generally approximate with the flu.
There was so much fear sown in our society that it has paralyzed many people. Why? There are many answers and not all of them are nefarious, but it is impossible to separate the politics of this disease and “orange man bad” and the overall perception of the public responding to fear porn from our media.
The economics of Covid as well as the flip-flopping “experts” and deliberate “dishonesty for the greater good” have caused many people to entirely dismiss the virus. That is not right either.
This thing is a mess. It remains a mess in terms of understanding the “pandemic” and the governmental response. It will be like that for awhile. Years from now after the emotion of the moment has disappeared the after-action review will conclude that we did some things right, but we did even more wrong in my humble opinion.
Prayers for all those suffering from the actions of China (another thing conveniently forgotten) and hope your wife gets her sea-legs back under her with it. There are many folks like her out there that need to conquer their fear regardless of their exposure.
I'm proud of you! Stay strong.
So great the way you laid down the law. NOTICE the panicky tones designed to induce fear that the TV newsmen use for Covid. Or at least while Trump was President. There is no TV at this house but I see it when visiting. Induce fear and panic. Fear and panic to get the ratings.
This is why I see so many wearing face masks outdoors in my suburban situation. As if the air is laden with Covid viruses.. TV has made them into Covid compliant zombies and I sure 99% of them voted Biden.