Have you noticed in the last week or so a turning of tides regarding Covid-19 in the mainstream media? There have been quite a few turns over the last two years, but it seems that in the last couple weeks, there are "questions" increasingly being raised that are critical of the responses that governments are taking. This isn't the MSM finally growing a pair and waking up or anything like that, it is just that it is suitable for their narrative, as they attempt to reposition themselves to always be on the "right side" of the discourse - which is where they can make the most profits.
I read an interesting article just before from Australia, which has been draconian in its response, but hasn't really held back the tide of infections. Of course, "infection rate" doesn't really matter, unless those result in severe hospitalization or death - but don't let that stop the changing of laws to get more control over the population.
The state’s Health Minister has revealed that many of those listed as having being “hospitalised” for the virus are simply testing positive in routine checks after being admitted for broken bones, labour pains or even mental health issues.
Remember, these numbers have been used for 1.5 years (after the death rate wasn't cutting it and got replaced with infection rate) to warrant lockdowns, forced vaccinations, segregation nof populations and all kinds of other lifestyle restrictions - in what has amounted to the fastest increase in the wealth gap, ever.
The article goes on to talk about the "strain" that the hospital staff are under, but it also mentions that:
“Heart attacks, births, falls, none of that stops just because there is Covid. They come into hospital, they have a swab taken and it confirms Covid.
Yeah, none of the normal hospitalization stops, even if there is Covid, which means the normal pressures on staff are still there. But, because they have Covid (but aren't there for it, they are being registered as Covid patients) However:
“I’m hearing about teams getting completely wiped out essentially because they are either contacts or they are positive,”
Notice he they don't say "sick"? This means that hospital staff are not allowed to go into work, even if they are otherwise healthy. So, all of those normal cases still need to be treated, but because of staff having or being a close contact of someone who is positive, they are not allowed to go into work. This means that even without Covid in the hospitals, the hospitals would still be short-staffed and under strain and struggle to serve even the normal workload.
What would be interesting to see is how much of the hospital staff are out because they are just too sick to work. I suspect, not that many, this means that if it was under normal conditions sans-Covid, most of those staff would actually be at work, even if they have a slight runny nose or hoarse voice - or if they knew someone who had a seasonal flu.
However, true to form, they are making exceptions for hospital staff who are considered close contacts, getting them to come into work still. This is illogical if their "stop the spread" message is true, and even more so if they are trying to stop the most vulnerable from getting Covid - since the most vulnerable are more likely to be at the hospital already.
A lot of the narrative over the last two years has been dominated by a lot of statistically irrelevant details. For example, case numbers don't actually tell much, but hospitalization and death numbers too. The death numbers have stopped getting reported since mid-2020, because they were found well lacking, since for example in Finland, there are only a tiny fraction of cases that don't include one or more chronic illnesses, and the mortality age is still over the normal average for the country. But, the media singles out the youngest people globally they can find, but only toward the end of the article say something like "they also had stage-4 cancer" - as if that is a side detail and irrelevant to the death. Weight of patients has also been omitted from the reports, despite there being a very clear correlation between weight and severity of symptoms.
The largest descriptive study yet of hospitalized U.S. COVID-19 patients, posted as a preprint last month by Genentech researchers, found that 77% of nearly 17,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were overweight (29%) or obese (48%). Sept 2020
One metanalysis that pooled data on more than 399,000 people with COVID-19 found that those with obesity were 113% more likely to be hospitalized, 74% more likely to need intensive care and 48% more likely to die than those with lower BMIs. source
This isn't about just Covid though, this is what the media is always going to do, continually rewrite history so that they appear like they are always correct. For example, at one point they will have experts in 2007 saying how strong the economy is and then a year later, the same experts saying how obvious the crash was and people should have seen the signs. And, because they run on a 30 minute news cycle that drives the same messaging across all mediums and channels, the repetition makes us forget that just yesterday, they were saying something very different.
Then the next day, it will change again.
We see this across all kinds of topics, where for example one week they are calling the end of Bitcoin and the next week, suggesting people buy in, only to a week later, have another expert say that it is again doomed. The same has happened with the news on the real estate markets, where they are saying "buy, buy, buy - before you miss out", and then saying "oh no, the people who have bought are screwed now interest rates are rising!"
The thing is though, no matter what they message, there is no accountability for them, no repercussions for being wrong, only incentive to keep the polarization swinging to generate clicks from their readers. They don't need to be right, they don't care if they are wrong - because there is no consequence.
It is no wonder that there is so much polarized distrust around the news, or "fake news" as the case may be, because it is such a shambles and inconsistent, that it is nonsensical. And as such, it is no longer a source that can be relied on in order to inform decisions, which leaves us all up to our own opinions, influenced by the incoherent scraps of information we are fed from multiple sources. Read the news and,
You won't know whether to shit, or go sailing.
Just remember, based on all of these "reported" numbers (which are apparently very poorly collected considering they are scientists), people are making social decisions, financial decisions, governance decisions and irreversible medical decisions that are going to have ramifications well into the future, likely for generations to come. But, with no way for the average person to independently verify or cross-reference any of this, we become reliant on the narrative we subscribe to, regardless of its accuracy or whether it makes any logical sense under the microscope.
But of course, we need just trust the media, corporations and governments because as history tells us, they always have our best interests and wellbeing at heart.
They say, there is no vaccine for stupidity.
But, do they have one for gullibility?
Truth no longer matters - it is all about clicks.
Taraz
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