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Often, there are reasons to criticize newspapers, reporting on the current state of knowledge is none of them.
Playing down a lethal pandemic in order to get people back to work is most certainly something to criticize them for
Especially after "AN INCALCULABLE LOSS"
Here is a covid timeline of NewYork, make of it what you will
weird how it ends in 2023 when people are still being infected by covid, huh, wonder what that means
Can you explain in a quick sentence why you think everyone here is saying the NYT article is so bad? It doesn't seem like you understand.
From the October, 2020 section, dated October 9th.
4 days after NYC experienced it's highest number of cases since the summer peak that year, the New York Times published the linked article downplaying the seriousness of this life threatening pandemic.
Are you starting to see why we are criticizing them?
I love when libs link something they clearly haven't read and all it does is prove them wrong.
Yeah leave the newspapers alone, the NYT does valuable investigative reporting
The current state of knowledge, buried deep in the article, was their own statement that nobody knew how prevalent reinfections were.
This is after repeatedly saying it's rare.
Also, at a very basic level, this was in the beginning of a global pandemic where infecting rates were high, there has already been multiple waves, and and it would be literally impossible to claim that reinfection would be rare. If a new variant took over every 6 months due to waning immunity to a new set of variants, they'd never detect it.
Applying very basic logic to the situation made this article and everyone quoted in it reckless and partly responsible for the deaths of thousands, maybe millions. It was part of a wider campaign of COVID minimization led by a press complicit in that narrative (one that aligned with capitalist interests in real estate and forcing people back to work / ending "lockdowns") and a minority of irresponsible researchers known as "COVID minimizers" that lied through their teeth for a chance to get in the press.