The Leftist ‘mainstream’ media isn’t completely censoring the daily presidential press briefings, but they are asking absurd gotcha questions and then ripping into him in articles they write about the presser. Additionally, they are making the virus more terrifying than it is in reality.
During an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Dr. Drew Pinsky was asked about the media’s pandemic coverage.
He said he wants the media to “shut up” and stop “whipping up further panic and chaos.” They are over the top.
According to DR Drew Pinsky: the media needs to shut up – they sensationalize everything. pic.twitter.com/9XxdKywF33
— Arslan (@Arslanjaved22) March 31, 2020
We aren’t saying Dr. Pinsky knows it all, but doesn’t he have a point?
When this first started, he recalled a reporter saying, ‘We have a staggering number of cases…we have seven thousand cases.’ And I thought, oh my god, you need to shut up, because this is going to go way higher,” Pinsky, an internal medicine and addiction specialist.
Pinsky said that if everyone in the media freaked out about a relatively small number of cases, “what are we going to call a million?”
“Look we have 24 million flu cases in this country, every year, thirty thousand deaths. What do you call those numbers?” He explained. “And this is going to be comparable, or worse, or who knows.
“So, shut up, because you are only going to panic people,” he scolded. “And they ensued, and are continuing to spin this thing in ways I think are disturbing.”
He has a problem with the ‘panic’ the media is stirring up.
Dr. Pinsky was wrong in January and early February, but so was Dr. Fauci through January. People just didn’t know. We were lied to by China and the World Health Organization.
China needs to be cut out of our supply chain and we need to look at immigration from China as long as these wet markets exist as is.
Watch on #Periscope: #DoseOfDrDrew 4/4/2020 (Take 1) Apology.https://t.co/jLJU779hb5
— Dr Drew (@drdrew) April 5, 2020
OPINION
The virus is bad, don’t misunderstand me here, but the media’s nuts. Words like “terrifying” from one upset nurse, “alarming, astounding, stunning,” and predictions like the ‘Green Effect might be disastrous’ or noting famous people dying without mentioning the 81-year-old was sickly, and omitting the co-morbidities when someone dies, are all aimed at clicks. The truth is we don’t know the numbers.
The models were wrong and continue to be wrong, more are labeled COVID deaths than actually are COVID deaths, we have no idea how many people have it or had it. We don’t have a numerator or a denominator. We have a drastically inaccurate number of people who recovered.
The drama isn’t necessary. These media people want clicks over just reporting facts.
It is getting stressful reading the papers or watching TV, and it’s not even accurate.
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In the meantime, USA and Canada are now owned by the banks for the enormous bailouts and the citizens are no longer free but enslaved forever. This over-reaction has universally killed more than the virus. Mission accomplished.
Interestingly, the Main Sewer Stream Fake Media and their Demoncrap buddies diligently IGNORE,and one Governor even banned the use of, the malaria drug (and Zinc) which France has had great results with and Italy is NOW using successfully…one wonders if they are stupid or have an ulterior motive???
Hospitals overwhelmed, but NO economic shutdown. Instead economic prosperity.
https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/
What say you Fauci, Birx.
The more I see on this Kung flu the more I realize that what I suspected from the outset is very likely true.
Impeachment hoaxes didn’t work to remove Trump from office, or diminish his poll numbers, so the leftist had to go to another plan. The chicoms had just the thing to stop the economy and the trade deal, etc. A virus of which there is no know cure nor vaccine.
Ain’t gonna work, either. So far DJT has performed his duties awesomely. And it looks like a treatment has been found, which will just further infuriate the commies(foreign and domestic) as the virus numbers continue to drop.
At the present time, hospitals are not overwhelmed with covid19 patients, are running short shifts and laying off workers due to inactivity.
KAG2020.
Media is creating chaos on purpose to terrify people pointing anger at Trump looking for the senile Biden to be the next Holy Messiah like Obama.
One thing I’ve concluded about the media is they are basically “Lazy”. This epidemic allows them to go on day after day, after week, after month, to have simplistic programming requiring no independent thinking. The same questions, no matter who, with the same answers. The redundancy is painful to watch.
I don’t think Fox even realizes what they reported. There are many hospitals closing down and laying off personnel because of the LACK of patients due to disallowing non-virus procedures. Many nurses are applying for unemployment.
I quit watching the fear mongers on TV a long time ago and now quit listening to talks shows because the almost exclusive reporting or subject is the coronavirus. What is making me sick is just hearing about the Kung Flu without actually being infected by it.
For a long time I have compared the politicians with professional wrestlers. For an example; during a tag team match the partner of the bad guy who is on the sidelines until he is tagged, is distracting the referee while the bad guy in the ring is cheating. The government and media do the same thing. They are distracting us with this virus while the government is blowing through money and Democrats are trying to enact their socialist/communist agenda, etc.
Common sense, Tim, is not so common with the folks commenting after msnbc videos on You Tube. They have a feeding frenzy daily to the Orange Man Bad narrative and want Fox news shut down and its employees jailed for “misinformation.” Really.
Amen to that !!!