Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Neiler]

Media should really be accountable for headlines

This:

Vast majority of Britons have NO PROTECTION against Omicron

Millions of Britons have effectively no protection against the Omicron Covid variant, health experts have warned as the public was urged to get their booster jabs before Christmas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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[ForeverBlue92]

Media should really be accountable for headlines

This:

Vast majority of Britons have NO PROTECTION against Omicron

Millions of Britons have effectively no protection against the Omicron Covid variant, health experts have warned as the public was urged to get their booster jabs before Christmas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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In times like this reporters deliberately using clickbait to spread misinformation should be fined/prosecuted imo.

The Pandemic has made me hate the media - utter parasites they are.

 

[Amw79]

In times like this reporters deliberately using clickbait to spread misinformation should be fined/prosecuted imo.

The Pandemic has made me hate the media - utter parasites they are.

Media are knobheads. They always have been.

But we’ve now imported this distrust of the media from the US. Now the default position is to disbelieve everything the MSM says (which is just as stupid as believing everything they say).

Next election we have we’ll all be doing the election fraud nonsense, like the US did.

 

[efcfanwirral]

Media are knobheads. They always have been.

But we’ve now imported this distrust of the media from the US. Now the default position is to disbelieve everything the MSM says (which is just as stupid as believing everything they say).

Next election we have we’ll all be doing the election fraud nonsense, like the US did.

I don't think we will- the left won't pull that sort of thing, and they'll be absolutely hammered in the polls because they'll still be pushing restrictions in 2024 and people will have had enough by then

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Not sure about that one. I think case rates were typically higher in minority populations in the US, but also seem to remember reading that it was probably less about anything genetic and down to living conditions, i.e. they were more likely to live in crowded or shared family situations as opposed to white families who are more statistically likely to live in single family homes.

Aside from multi-family homes and being less likely to have insurance, there is also more distrust of doctors and medicine in minority populations —unfortunately pretty well-founded looking back through history — so they would be less likely to seek help, follow a doctor’s advice, get vaccinated, etc.

 

[JLW]

Media are knobheads. They always have been.

But we’ve now imported this distrust of the media from the US. Now the default position is to disbelieve everything the MSM says (which is just as stupid as believing everything they say).

Next election we have we’ll all be doing the election fraud nonsense, like the US did.

Any event that happens in the world is only as big as the media make it, they can make me and you speak about it for as long as they want us to speak about it.

Lets say the media stopped reporting on Covid 6 months ago but all the information is still there on the ONS and the data is the same as it is today new cases Deaths etc... would we be speaking about it? No we wouldn't not on the scale we have been, we would be speaking about what the media have as their main story.

Insulate protests of about 10 people blocking a motorway was almost on our screens every day yet hundreds of thousands of people across the globe protesting against vaccine passports and very little do we hear about in the MSM. Why? Because is doesnt fit with their narrative.

The problem we have in todays society is social media, before what was reported in the MSM we believed but now it can be challenged and is getting challenged. Don't get me wrong here i hate social media i think its a cancer of society i really do, but, what it has done is make what's getting reported in the media questionable and rightly so IMO.

My point is I'm not saying any of the above shouldn't be reported but the power of the media in all our lives shouldn't be underestimated.

 

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[Tigger]

Media should really be accountable for headlines

This:

Vast majority of Britons have NO PROTECTION against Omicron

Millions of Britons have effectively no protection against the Omicron Covid variant, health experts have warned as the public was urged to get their booster jabs before Christmas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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The vast majority of Britons have that little old thing called an immune system that's more than capable of fighting it off too. 98% plus of the population will fight it of with 0 jab, 1 jab, 2 jab. Hopefully people get it but let's not pretend everyone is at risk here.

 

[tsubaki]

The vast majority of Britons have that little old thing called an immune system that's more than capable of fighting it off too. 98% plus of the population will fight it of with 0 jab, 1 jab, 2 jab. Hopefully people get it but let's not pretend everyone is at risk here.

1.3 million people are, though.

 

[TN Toffee]

The vast majority of Britons have that little old thing called an immune system that's more than capable of fighting it off too. 98% plus of the population will fight it of with 0 jab, 1 jab, 2 jab. Hopefully people get it but let's not pretend everyone is at risk here.

That almost felt true with the initial wave of the virus in 2020, but Delta was different, at least across the American south this past summer. Lots of young and otherwise healthy (but unvaccinated) people bet on their immune system and lost.

 

[Hickson9]

Getting my booster this morning, perfectly in time for the Christmas period ??

 

[Ghost Rider]

1.3 million people are, though.

But 1.3 million aren't ending up in hospital as a result.

If I told you how many people every single day had tested positive for the cold , would you care about that?

No , because why would you?

But you would care how many people with the cold ended up in hospital. Same principle here , the number of people with covid doesn't matter anymore in a society that is vaccinated. The number of people going to hospital WITH covid does matter.

 

[Martin Alvito]

In times like this reporters deliberately using clickbait to spread misinformation should be fined/prosecuted imo.

The Pandemic has made me hate the media - utter parasites they are.

If people actively didn't read the clickbait, the papers would lose clicks and the copy editors who write the headlines would eventually face termination, taking the reporters with them.

The article directly contradicts the clickbait headline several paragraphs in by admitting that the vaccines still offer protection against severe illness without a booster. I don't think the problem is with the reporter, other than perhaps with their ethical standards in working for someone whose copy editors write clickbait headlines that are lies.

The copy editor would probably tell you that there wasn't enough space for a nuanced headline. He/she would also be telling at best a half-truth, considering that paper's reputation.

I don't really know where to tell you the problem lies. Are people generally to blame for their baser natures and difficulty in seeing through deception? Is the government, and its educational system, at fault for not teaching these skills? Is it capitalism, which incentivizes the media to convert these failings into profit? Is it the media, for not collectively agreeing to standards and enforcing them against their own?

What I will say with certainty is that it's not a new problem, considering that Hearst and Pulitzer's respective rises occurred over a century ago.

 

[tsubaki]

But 1.3 million aren't ending up in hospital as a result.

If I told you how many people every single day had tested positive for the cold , would you care about that?

No , because why would you?

But you would care how many people with the cold ended up in hospital. Same principle here , the number of people with covid doesn't matter anymore in a society that is vaccinated. The number of people going to hospital WITH covid does matter.

That was a reply to what @Tigger said. We can all minimise this to “it’s only 2%” or whatever but that’s still a huge number of people.