Downplaying the COVID-19 threat has become a
formulaic cognitive trigger dismissal.
Perhaps wise but there have been disasters in the
past by such wise-ass downplaying: plague, VD,
smallpox, polio, measles, mental illness,
genocide, AIDS, opiods, suicide, environmental
damage, sexual predation, et al.
The worst are intolerant religion and war-making,
this two-backed beast is widely blessed and
boosted by profit-making adherents no matter the
great harm the cause, both sensationalized to the
maximum. Their leaders wear funny-looking
garments and jewelry, are obsessed with rank,
ceremony, public displays and above all
fund-raising by scaring the shit out of people
with endless murdering onslaughts supported by extorted tithes and taxes.
No surprise that journalism sucks up to them, that's its purpose.
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"Why COVID-19 is not the problem" (but the sensationalized reporting and
ignorant reactionary humans sure are!)
"So why is so much attention being paid to COVID-19? First, because itâs
new, and spreading. But as Max Fisher wrote in the New York Times,
COVID-19 âhits nearly every cognitive trigger we have.â Its novelty and
the uncertainty around it override the recognition that other diseases,
including flu, are far more endemic and dangerous.
He likens the reaction to that after a plane crash, when people shun
flying even though a crash is an anomaly and flying is overwhelmingly safe.
And social media spreads the rumors, fake cures, and other untruths that
we wonât link to, but include words like âgenocideâ and âZionist
conspiracy.â
Journalists have the responsibility to put things in context. Cover
COVID-19 and its effects, be they economic, physical, or social. But
acknowledge its place in the pantheon of disease. Reporting as if it
were the end of the world is an epidemic of a different kind."
 https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/covid-19-coronavirus.php
