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NYT was one of the worst Covid bullshitters
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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NYT's business is manufacturing consent. They manufactured consent to invade Iraq. They manufactured consent for perpetual covid circulation, reinfection, and the death and disability that follow. They've been manufacturing consent for supporting an apartheid ethnostate in committing genocide.
Nobody should take it seriously as a news outlet.
NYT, such a land of contrasts. Some really good investigation pieces that expose heinous shit. And then everything else they produce being completely lib pilled or outright conservative. And then they have the 5 letter word game that they basically took out back and murdered when they bought it. They also have a crossword puzzle that is useful for exposing sickos around you.
I sorta want to do an effort post on how liberal media distorts scientific research, by avoiding mentioning peer review, and doing dishonest summaries of the abstract. But honestly, it would surprise no one here.
Favorite Connections categories so far:
- Things that the editor has in their pocket
- Things that are not birds
- Obscure off-Broadway musical title synonyms
connections is easy i honestly worry for people that complain about it being too hard
It's hard when you're not American and at least two of the categories are references to American media, places, or lingo.
Or when you're not from New York and it's like 4 pizza shops on one specific street in Manhattan
Just pull up a list of Italian first names and start plugging in whatever fits.
It's amazing how much they got and continue to get wrong and the most vocal people raising voices about COVID and the attendant issues are the death dealing antivax chuds. Hellworld.
Just to be clear we're all getting COVID like on average about once a year, right? That seems to be the case for me and my partner.
Forgive me if I'm too lazy to research atm. There are multiple big waves every year. And since people rarely test nowadays, lots of infections are passed off as the flu, cold, or allergies. I'll find something more substantial and get back to you.
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.
There were 779 hospitalizations on October 9, the highest number reported since July 15.
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.
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.