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Originally Posted by Adder
Do you talk to people who don't think you sound like an idiot when you say things like this?
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Do you know
any media people?
This isn't at all controversial. They look for the most salacious angle. What planet are you on?
Covid is dangerous. There's a low single digit chance it'll kill you, and a small but unknown chance it'll create lasting damage.
As the disease progresses, however, the story risks becoming normalized. As in, people might not continue to be entirely obsessed with it. So at this point, to avoid that risk, every story about NY's rate dropping must be met with some story re-emphasizing the outlier disease presentations. This isn't a right or left media thing. It's an all media thing.
If you want to test the theory, look at the trend line between what the market sees and what the media is writing. Now, a shit ton of the melt up has been due to Fed intervention. But all of it? No. A significant portion of it is a prediction that, while we'll see a U recovery of a sort, we will see a normalization in which Covid is not multiplying wildly around the country as it did in NYC.
But what is the media writing? Few stories are focused on the drop in cases, while the majority emphasize doom events:
1. Massive spike in rural areas to come (though not yet materialized);
2. Kawasaki-like syndrome in .00001 of children which may be related;
3. Immunity from previous acquisition probably unlikely
Etc., etc., etc.
The "it kills kids" angle was destined to be front and center at some point. Efforts to push that narrative started at the very outset of the virus. The reason for this is simple -- takes the narrative from thriller to psychological horror movie.
Another media flurry of bullshit is about to hit from the right, regarding this Durham investigation.
WSJ is setting up that probable nothingburger to look like a new Watergate right now. They'll have the credulous at each others' throats on several fronts this election season:
1. Greed vs. Science;
2. D vs. R;
3. Progressive v. Moderate Liberal;
4. Populist vs. Anti-Trump Conservatives;
5. Xenophobes v. Immigration Moderates;
6. China Bashers v. Globalization Proponents
Of course you see all of this. Who couldn't?
