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The reality is exactly the opposite. The media has so overblown the risk of COVID that 41% of Democrats now believe that you have a greater than 50% chance of b

The reality is exactly the opposite. The media has so overblown the risk of COVID that 41% of Democrats now believe that you have a greater than 50% chance of being hospitalized if you contract it: https://twitter.com/PandaTribune/status/1440192783260655618?s=20 https://twitter.com/PandaTribune/status/1440192783260655618?... >>Great clip of Bill Maher citing a survey in which 41% of Democrats said that if you catch COVID, the chances of going to the hospital are >50%... (the correct answer is between 1% - 5%) Maher says the "liberal media needs to take responsibility for scaring the sh*t out of people" Why this matters is that an over-estimation of the risk for low-risk demographics has led to behavioral patterns that are net harmful. For example, the climate of fear around COVID has maybe reduced the very minute risk the virus poses to children (0.003% IFR, or about equivalent to the risk of dying if stung by a bee), at the cost of an unprecedented rise in childhood obesity: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm7037a3_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm... "Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19, rate of body mass index increase approximately doubled during pandemic compared to prepandemic period. Persons w/ prepandemic overweight or obesity & younger school-aged children experienced largest increases." The response to COVID, with respect to children, is going to cause far more deaths in the long run than it mitigates.

jonahbenton 5y ago
OMG stop. In that same survey 30% of non-Democrats agreed that chances of going to the hospital are > 50%. Maybe Fox News stop scaring the sh*t out of people re COVID too. Except obviously that is not what is going on.
- CryptoPunk 5y ago
  Well, the Democrats are even more misinformed. But yes, the media in general is scaring the shit out of people. That Democrats are the worse afflicted is secondary to that point.
  - hactually 5y ago
    I don't know many democrats backing riots and snarfling horse paste so maybe just stop.
    - CryptoPunk 5y ago
      You're implying that Democrats shouldn't be criticized because Republicans are worse in some other respect. Every group should be open to criticism. One group's ignorance doesn't absolve another's. Addressing your specific points, the BLM rioters were almost exclusively Democrats, and there were hundreds of BLM riots: https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Demonstrations-Associated-with-Black-Lives-Matter-BLM-by-Demonstration-Type-24-May-22-August-2020.png https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/2020/0... As for ivermectin, it has been used in hundreds of millions of humans, so characterizing it as "horse paste" is not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#History If you wanted to point to some way in which Republicans in general are worse, you could point out how anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are more prevalent among Republicans. This form of ignorance has done considerable harm.
lamp987 5y ago
Fear and drama sells news. This is to be expected.

jonahbenton 5y ago

OMG stop. In that same survey 30% of non-Democrats agreed that chances of going to the hospital are > 50%. Maybe Fox News stop scaring the sh*t out of people re COVID too. Except obviously that is not what is going on.

CryptoPunk 5y ago
Well, the Democrats are even more misinformed. But yes, the media in general is scaring the shit out of people. That Democrats are the worse afflicted is secondary to that point.
- hactually 5y ago
  I don't know many democrats backing riots and snarfling horse paste so maybe just stop.
  - CryptoPunk 5y ago
    You're implying that Democrats shouldn't be criticized because Republicans are worse in some other respect. Every group should be open to criticism. One group's ignorance doesn't absolve another's. Addressing your specific points, the BLM rioters were almost exclusively Democrats, and there were hundreds of BLM riots: https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Demonstrations-Associated-with-Black-Lives-Matter-BLM-by-Demonstration-Type-24-May-22-August-2020.png https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/2020/0... As for ivermectin, it has been used in hundreds of millions of humans, so characterizing it as "horse paste" is not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#History If you wanted to point to some way in which Republicans in general are worse, you could point out how anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are more prevalent among Republicans. This form of ignorance has done considerable harm.

lamp987 5y ago

Fear and drama sells news. This is to be expected.