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Here's the Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps ... just older people with underlying conditions d

Here's the Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps ... just older people with underlying conditions dying ... etc.

mehrdadn 7y ago
Are you joking? She says a heck of a lot more than that. Her tone is extremely cautious and she's extremely clear that we know very little about this virus, she's describing the current situation of who is dying rather than making baseless predictions about who will die in the future, and all she's saying in that one sentence is that for the current situation, "you have to put it into context". Meanwhile you have snarky Fox News folks spewing "the media mob is telling you the sky is falling down" and "at worst this is like the flu" and "this is the best time to fly" etc. And she even literally tells you "this one is scary..." and tries to explain what about it is scary. Are these glaring difference not obvious or do you just ignore everything except the 1 sentence you can cherry-pick out of context?
- lazyjones 7y ago
  You should look at the video again. Her tone is calming and reassuring and she is saying it's scary because it is NEW. Are you deliberately trying to misinterpret it?
  - mehrdadn 7y ago
    No, I'm trying to point out everything you're ignoring, which fundamentally affects the meaning of the message coming across. Like right now when you just ignored the rest of my comment. I'm not gonna put more effort into this though, since it's clear you're not going to see what you don't intend to see.
    - lazyjones 7y ago
      I'm only ignoring the fact that you're more obsessed with Fox News' well-known snarkiness and presentation than with the fact that at the time, considering Coronavirus relatively harmless was not a lie or even uncommon opinion among most media, all along the spectrum.
  - qqqwerty 7y ago
    This video was published on January 23rd. At that point, China had less than 1k confirmed cases and less than 30 deaths. I agree with the sibling commenter, this was a very reasoned and factual video, especially considering the information that was public at the time.
robocat 7y ago
That is from Jan 23, 2020... when everyone was clueless as to the consequences so she didn’t predict those. Everything else is spot on, and it is still mostly older people with underlying conditions dying. She says the death rate is 2%: no pretending that it would be like a normal flu season. I just can’t see how you can cherry-pick a single thing out of that reporting to criticise, even given it was done on January 23rd!

Here's the Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps ... just older people with underlying conditions dying ... etc.

mehrdadn 7y ago

Are you joking? She says a heck of a lot more than that. Her tone is extremely cautious and she's extremely clear that we know very little about this virus, she's describing the current situation of who is dying rather than making baseless predictions about who will die in the future, and all she's saying in that one sentence is that for the current situation, "you have to put it into context". Meanwhile you have snarky Fox News folks spewing "the media mob is telling you the sky is falling down" and "at worst this is like the flu" and "this is the best time to fly" etc. And she even literally tells you "this one is scary..." and tries to explain what about it is scary. Are these glaring difference not obvious or do you just ignore everything except the 1 sentence you can cherry-pick out of context?

lazyjones 7y ago
You should look at the video again. Her tone is calming and reassuring and she is saying it's scary because it is NEW. Are you deliberately trying to misinterpret it?
- mehrdadn 7y ago
  No, I'm trying to point out everything you're ignoring, which fundamentally affects the meaning of the message coming across. Like right now when you just ignored the rest of my comment. I'm not gonna put more effort into this though, since it's clear you're not going to see what you don't intend to see.
  - lazyjones 7y ago
    I'm only ignoring the fact that you're more obsessed with Fox News' well-known snarkiness and presentation than with the fact that at the time, considering Coronavirus relatively harmless was not a lie or even uncommon opinion among most media, all along the spectrum.
- qqqwerty 7y ago
  This video was published on January 23rd. At that point, China had less than 1k confirmed cases and less than 30 deaths. I agree with the sibling commenter, this was a very reasoned and factual video, especially considering the information that was public at the time.

robocat 7y ago

That is from Jan 23, 2020... when everyone was clueless as to the consequences so she didn’t predict those. Everything else is spot on, and it is still mostly older people with underlying conditions dying. She says the death rate is 2%: no pretending that it would be like a normal flu season. I just can’t see how you can cherry-pick a single thing out of that reporting to criticise, even given it was done on January 23rd!