D&D and the rising pandemic

[billd91]

It was stated in a specific judgment, with respect to what weight should be given to Tucker Carlson ("none"), over his commentary. When you lie enough that a judge states on the record that no one should believe anything that you say, you've got issues.

Maybe? But that's not going to matter to the Fox viewers. They'll still eat it up and it'll still, effectively, brainwash the viewers. And that's their goal. It's not to "inform". It's to produce a public oriented to their viewpoints. It's doesn't matter if they use the truth to do it or not.

 

[Ryujin]

Maybe? But that's not going to matter to the Fox viewers. They'll still eat it up and it'll still, effectively, brainwash the viewers. And that's their goal. It's not to "inform". It's to produce a public oriented to their viewpoints. It's doesn't matter if they use the truth to do it or not.

Of course. It feeds into their conspiracy theory laden minds' confirmation bias.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It was stated in a specific judgment, with respect to what weight should be given to Tucker Carlson ("none"), over his commentary. When you lie enough that a judge states on the record that no one should believe anything that you say, you've got issues.

His latest statements, regarding certain documents that they've been touting heavily over the last couple of weeks, are right up there with, "The dog ate my homework."

Which supports what I said, no? Carlson is one of their commentators, not part of the news division proper. The issue is, of course, that when you have a large and extremely slanted commentator group that interacts with the news division, the line gets super muddy (and that's over and above what goes on with the way the news division chooses to present what it does).

 

[Umbran]

His latest statements, regarding certain documents ...

Are not covid-19 related, so, can we please leave them outside? Thanks.

 

[Ryujin]

Are not covid-19 related, so, can we please leave them outside? Thanks.

I didn't go into any depth on them for precisely that reason.

 

[Istbor]

Ugh. Come home state... catch the drift that COVID-19 is still a thing.

Daily cases rising pretty high here atm.

 

[CleverNickName]

Yeah, we added 91,530 new cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. yesterday alone. We added more cases in a single day than we did in almost the entire first quarter of year 2020.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yeah, my state (Washington) has generally been following the trend of the whole US, having increases of cases in both of the first two US waves. Now, at the start of the "third" wave (in reality, we never finished either of the first two), our cases are rising yet again:

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By these two graphs, we've been doing pretty well in comparison to most of the rest of the country, but definitely have failed to control it when compared to most European countries, New Zealand, and so on (it is also difficult to get control of a pandemic if you don't have the support of the president, if legislature isn't passed to help mitigate the spread when it's needed, and when there aren't travel restrictions between states, etc).

 

[Garthanos]

50 percent of those tested today in my county were positive ....

 

[Hussar]

The worst part about that whole NZ hellhole thing is I've seen people, people who I thought were pretty smart and thoughtful actually buying the stories. It's mind boggling. When did expertise become so discredited?

I mean, I have a buddy who just sent me a masking is bad for you propaganda piece. Very well made, lots of backup research and all that. Gotta give mad props for that. But, on one hand we've got every doctor on the frigging planet, whose job it is to keep people healthy, telling us to put on the damn mask and wear it and on the other hand, there's this guy, no medical training at all, just a decent sense of film making and access to Google Scholar. Why in hell do people continuously fall for this? It's so frustrating - it's like people aren't even speaking the same language anymore.

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