Scoularite wrote:by skidemin » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:19 am
Scoularite wrote:
I just don't get how some people still seem to think that covid is no worse than flu and that the media are responsible for beefing the story up to scare the people for some reason. Maybe one of them could explain why the media would want to do it - what's in it for them, why governments all around the world are falling for it when having to take preventative action that is murdering their economies ( apart from Trump when in office, and the president of Brazil who, like Trump, also believes that Global Warming is a myth), why the World Health Organisation is pleading for vaccinations to be given to poorer countries, and what appears to be the vast majority of medical experts seem to be concerned about further mutations.
In particular, why are so many people with other major medical problems being denied timely treatment because the Health Boards across the country have also apparently been conned by the media? Are all the medical staff apparently all falling for this so-called scare-mongering?
well i dont get how i keep reading the claim ...some people claim its no worse than the flu ..its said far far more than ive actually read someone say it...its chuck enough mud and hope some will stick .. ...
you want to know why our media sensationalise everything ... maybe its to sell papers / get viewers ?
in this case sections of our MSM were reporting people dropping dead in the street in China in early March 2020
and reporting Italys hospitals were over run with patients dying in corridors , no doubt a couple of their hospitals were but Italys health service is pretty decent and overall have coped despite having to deal with 10 times the amount of patients that they were having to deal with in those early reports.... more recently India seemed to be their go to place for scaremongering but that came and went when Indias huge deaths and cases didnt materialise....they scared the crap out of a lot of people , some i think will never feel safe again....
no idea what trump,, brazil or global warming have to do with covid .... might as well have thrown neil harris/ durban and scoular in...
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Firstly, as far as Trump and Brazil are concerned, you might remember that they were the 2 world leaders who disputed the impact of covid.
As far as the comparison between flu and covid goes, the annual flu deaths as published Dec. 13 in The Lancet medical journal were that seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year. These deaths would normally be with large numbers of people having already taken a flu jab and not having been in any sort of lockdown.
With the advent of covid and no initial vaccinations available, almost immediate lockdowns for the most elderly and vulnerable followed by significant lockdowns for the general population, and the introduction of facemasks to prevent carriers passing on any infections, flu rates were naturally going to drop - no mystery. On the other hand, the World Health Organisation latest deaths from covid are 4,136,518, and still climbing as many countries are moving into yet another "spike" in infections, such as Japan where you might have noticed that there are no spectators at the Olympics.
Then, do you really think that putting virtually the same story in all the newspapers day after day would help to sell more papers?
And as far as cases not materializing in India is concerned, I would say that 31.4 million reported cases and 421 thousand deaths are hardly insignificant, particularly as it led to the start of the Indian variant, now regarded as one of the most contagious strains of covid.
you do realise how much bigger Indias population is compared to ours ? roughly 20 times...
yes 421k is a big number but roughly 40 times as many Indians have died of other causes during the same period...
their deaths per million people are 1 sixth of what we have here and cases 1 quarter...