Hospitals Overwhelmed by ____ Patients Are Treating Them in Tents
“The _______ epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few.”
The above quote is from Time magazine in…….2018! The blank in the headline above is not COVID 19 but the word “Flu”. The blank in the quote are the words “2017-2018 influenza”.
There were no Thanksgiving cancellations. No halt in travel. No shutting down businesses forever.
Listen, I am not a CV19 denier. I do wear masks. I don’t want to get sick so I don’t dine in. I don’t want any more deaths. That ALL being said, I just want to point out how much I hate mainstream media and the hypocrisy of some people. Common sense is no longer allowed. No one wants to sit down and calmly talk about what works and what doesn’t. Young people handle this virus quite well. The old and the vulnerable do not. Why not start there?
Why did this have to be such a political issue? Because in an election year the clickbait biased media decided to do their thing. The sky was falling. And they pointed fingers without any evidence to do so. Shame on them.
We will survive this pandemic. We survived VERY BAD flu seasons. Hopefully we have gotten smarter from it all but I am not betting on it.
The media covered the pandemic like they would an election, ie who’s winning, who’s losing, what politician said what, everything is a crisis. Instead of turning things over to their health and science reporters, reporting was led by reporters who mainly covered politics. They ended up with reporters who are really dumb when it comes to medicine and without enough humility or common sense to realize it.
And there’s a special place in hell for supposed “medical experts” in the media (usually physicians) who will say whatever their network wants, be they on the right or left.
And I agree with Doug – CV19 is a real thing. i wear my mask at work and when I’m out and about and I haven’t dined in a restaurant for several months, My family decided to forego our big Thanksgiving get-together.after a calm non-hysterical conversation about it, something you will never see happening in the media.
We will definitely NOT get better from this, in large part because the medical community abdicated its leadership role to the media, government, and few docs with their own pockets to line, or adoration to pursue. This “crisis” has laid the tracks for future abuses and diminished freedoms, all under the rubric “Safety!” The most destructive, dangerous phrase out there now is “…if it will save one life…”
Interesting… not something I want to hear about, but doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen and it isn’t true… What ever happened to “let’s rethink what we are doing?” Let’s eliminate our own political bias. CLEARLY we need to do something different… not more of the SAME.
It should be abundantly clear by now that the media runs the country. And I am sick of this $#*% _______!
No.
The idea that we are innocent victims controlled by an all-powerful, evil media cabal is inaccurate and disempowering.
We have exactly the media that we want and deserve.
To quote a great philosopher, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”