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Sure. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-46a270ce0f681caa7e4143e2ae9a0211 https://apnews.com/art

Sure. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-46a270ce0f681caa7e4143e2ae9a0211 https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-governm... https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/21/politics/walensky-comments-cdc-guidance-fact-check https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/21/politics/walensky-comment...

Terr_ 2y ago
So the "government propaganda" is... unprepared statements by individuals being live-interviewed, which were so unusual and against accepted-truth that they provoked immediate and public correction from mainstream news outlets, as well as corrections (or at least distancing) by the rest of the government? Even a brief look at the context shows those are "exceptions that prove the rule." I'm sure that for some people those incidents defined "what [they knew] the government said", but that would probably be because they put themselves into media-bubbles which excluded the greater mass of nuanced (and boring) health information, allowing only the "OMG look at this" scornful submissions by their Facebook friends.
- ralph84 2y ago
  > So the "government propaganda" is... unprepared statements by individuals Yes, when those individuals are the president of the US and the director of the CDC presenting half-truths and exaggerations to further their agenda, that is textbook government propaganda.
barbazoo 2y ago
For context, that was in June 2021, in August 2021 he said this: > Let me be clear: There are cases where vaccinated people do get COVID-19, but they are far less common than unvaccinated people getting COVID-19. And most importantly, their conditions are far less severe. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/23/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-covid-19-response-and-the-vaccination-program-7/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

Terr_ 2y ago

So the "government propaganda" is... unprepared statements by individuals being live-interviewed, which were so unusual and against accepted-truth that they provoked immediate and public correction from mainstream news outlets, as well as corrections (or at least distancing) by the rest of the government? Even a brief look at the context shows those are "exceptions that prove the rule." I'm sure that for some people those incidents defined "what [they knew] the government said", but that would probably be because they put themselves into media-bubbles which excluded the greater mass of nuanced (and boring) health information, allowing only the "OMG look at this" scornful submissions by their Facebook friends.

ralph84 2y ago
> So the "government propaganda" is... unprepared statements by individuals Yes, when those individuals are the president of the US and the director of the CDC presenting half-truths and exaggerations to further their agenda, that is textbook government propaganda.

barbazoo 2y ago

For context, that was in June 2021, in August 2021 he said this: > Let me be clear: There are cases where vaccinated people do get COVID-19, but they are far less common than unvaccinated people getting COVID-19. And most importantly, their conditions are far less severe. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/23/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-covid-19-response-and-the-vaccination-program-7/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...