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I don't remember the exact start date when people started noticing we had severely fucked this up, but it's been a common refrain in the media for the last mont
by majormajor 7y ago
I don't remember the exact start date when people started noticing we had severely fucked this up, but it's been a common refrain in the media for the last month at least. If you're still asking "where was the media" NOW then you need to seriously reevaluate what media you're paying attention to, because the ones you're looking at are doing you a big disservice.
Here's one from a month ago: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-28/coronavirus-testing-under-scrutiny-newsletter https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-28/corona...
Ten days before that, people were becoming aware of asymptomatic carriers which should've triggered a huge testing effort to try to prevent community spread: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-18/report-shows-limits-of-coronavirus-screening https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-18/report-show...
Less awareness of it in late January: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/coronavirus-outbreak-orange-county-spread https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/coronavi...
- mikeyouse 7y agoFeb 1st in Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/tests-for-coronavirus-us-might-not-actually-work-cdc-says-2020-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/tests-for-coronavirus-us-mig... Feb 12th in the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/health/coronavirus-test-kits-cdc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/health/coronavirus-test-k... Feb 12th in LiveScience: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-testing-kits-flawed.html https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-testing-kits-flawed.... Feb 12th from Physicians Weekly: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/some-u-s-states-launch/ https://www.physiciansweekly.com/some-u-s-states-launch/ Feb 13th on FoxNews: https://www.foxnews.com/health/some-coronavirus-testing-kits-defective-cdc https://www.foxnews.com/health/some-coronavirus-testing-kits... The media has been all over this, news stories just don't have the penetrating power they used to. Plus, Trump admin officials kept saying the tests were fixed and would be shipped shortly even though it was patently false, so I don't think people thought much of it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/trump-aides-say-virus-is-contained-while-u-s-count-grows https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/trump-aid...
- h2odragon 7y agoI didnt start digging until 2/19; when my daughter went to a clinic for something that "wasn't flu or strep"; and there was no answer about "is there a test for the new wulan virus?"
- air7 7y agoI think the Media the-boy-who-cried-wolf itself. There are scares all the time and people grew (rightly) indifferent. Imagine a responsible media that's not out looking for click grabbing headlines all of a sudden mentioning a would-be pandemic...
- belltaco 7y agoCan you mention a few scares that you mention that happen "all the time" ?
- Natsu 7y agoWorld War 3 supposedly started in January by some accounts, but is nearly forgotten now. What's some mystery flu in China got on that as far as headlines go? Sure, we can answer this with a bit of hindsight, but it's amazing how quickly we forget even wildly incorrect predictions.
- thombat 7y agoCan you expand on thst WW3 reference - it's not a story that made the rounds here.
- dgritsko 7y agoI think they are referring to the killing of Qasem Soleimani and the subsequent retaliation [1]. [1]: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States_military_kills_Qasem_Soleimani https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States_military_kills_Qa...