Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[-Rob-]

This sentence literally doesn't mean anything.

Apart from what it actually means

 

[Prevenger17]

Apart from what it actually means

Okay, we'll have a look at it again.

The media

So when you say media, who are we talking about it? Is this a global media conspiracy, national, local? Be a bit more specific. Because, I'm pretty sure no reputable news outlet has ever conspired globally with others to assert that

no one has ever died of any illness ever before

Where? Where have they said that death-by-illness is a new craze sweeping the globe?

And then we have this nugget

all of a sudden this virus comes along to kill us all.

Point me to any story that suggests coronavirus is going to kill everyone. Or even 50% of people. Or even 20%? Where has any reputable, mass-consumed media outlet reported this?

 

[RAFUH]

Also for a brand new virus we knew nothing about until a few months ago they were already in March predicting a “Second Wave” or “spike” September/October time..

It is predicated on past viral pandemics. The virus itself is new. Pandemics are not.

 

[-Rob-]

Okay, we'll have a look at it again.




So when you say media, who are we talking about it? Is this a global media conspiracy, national, local? Be a bit more specific. Because, I'm pretty sure no reputable news outlet has ever conspired globally with others to assert that




Where? Where have they said that death-by-illness is a new craze sweeping the globe?


And then we have this nugget





Point me to any story that suggests coronavirus is going to kill everyone. Or even 50% of people. Or even 20%? Where has any reputable, mass-consumed media outlet reported this?

Ohhhh so you take everything you read literally.

Try reading between the lines to get the general jist of it.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[RAFUH]

The media would have you believe no one has ever died of any illness ever before and all of a sudden this virus comes along to kill us all.
The reality is that the death rate from covid is well below 1% and many of those 800k deaths attributed to covid were people that were dying anyway.
I'm saying it's not to be taken seriously but it has been massively over hyped to scaremongering the public.

If they were "dying anyway" your overall death rates would not be higher

Weekly death rates - England/Wales

 

[Prevenger17]

Ohhhh so you take everything you read literally.

Try reading between the lines to get the general jist of it.

Try saying something that even slightly reflects reality first. If the shadowy global media conspiracy has been overhyping its effects, I'm not even sure there's a word for how much you've just underhyped it there. There has been excess deaths in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps over a million, across the world since March. According to scientists and epidemiologists, we can't afford to take the foot off the pedal. That is a story and it should be reported.

 

[Goat]

The reality is that the death rate from covid is well below 1% and many of those 800k deaths attributed to covid were people that were dying anyway.

Ive been on this site for 12 years and it surprises me how every now and again I read posts that are so stupid they make me wonder what is life.

This sentence is quite special.

 

[Goat]

Gonna get that put on my gravestone.

"He was dying anyway".

 

[Catfish Blues]

and many of those 800k deaths attributed to covid were people that were dying anyway

How many were dying anyway mate ?
Just roughly, say to the nearest 5 or 10%.

 

[Goat]

How many were dying anyway mate ?
Just roughly, say to the nearest 5 or 10%.

100% of the world is dying anyway.

 

[-Rob-]

Try saying something that even slightly reflects reality first. If the shadowy global media conspiracy has been overhyping its effects, I'm not even sure there's a word for how much you've just underhyped it there. There has been excess deaths in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps over a million, across the world since March. According to scientists and epidemiologists, we can't afford to take the foot off the pedal. That is a story and it should be reported.

The global media over hypes everything. It's exactly how they stay in business.

 

[Catfish Blues]

100% of the world is dying anyway.

Aye, to be fair to @-Rob- , he didn't put a timescale on it.

He's not as daft as first appears.

 

[Prevenger17]

The global media over hypes everything. It's exactly how they stay in business.

Do you have a recent example of this hype?

 

[-Rob-]

How many were dying anyway mate ?
Just roughly, say to the nearest 5 or 10%.

We'll never know because the reporting of deaths this year has been an absolute sham.