Collision ResistanceNew Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn
travelerWhy are we still talking about Covid? Shouldn’t we all have a good deal of immunity against it?
Because it generates clicks (and thus revenue) for media conglomerates. Capitalism baby, let’s take all that anxiety and depression and turn it into some instant cash!
You seem anti-capitalist. Yet hear you are repeating far-right talking points.
I am anti-capitalist, yeah - which far-right talking points am I repeating? Obviously I’m not perfect and we’re all susceptible to propaganda etc. so if you can point out what it is I’ve written that seems to support the far-right it would be very helpful!
To answer your question, while you didn’t say it outright, your response makes a likely inference to be that you believe COVID reporting was overblown to generate revenue.
That is the far-right taking point they are most likely referring to.
The number of hospitalizations and deaths is a statistic that was tracked and the far-right lead a campaign to discredit those statistics. Later, the far-right lead a campaign to say that vaccination should have resulted in full immunity, which it was never reported to do, in an effort to discredit scientists and make their followers feel validated in their decision to not vaccinate.
I don’t believe that reporting about the pandemic was overblown at the time that the pandemic was a public health crisis, actually I believe it was underreported, quite significantly.
However, I believe that the combination of the huge uncertainty, people desperately trying to keep up to date, people being off work or working from home, the huge amount of conversation around COVID news stories, etc. that the news websites got an unprecedented amount of traffic, clicks and revenue, and since that has tapered off, they’re basically like an addict desperate for a fix. They’ll present any minor COVID news, no matter how inconsequential, as a far bigger issue than it really is.
I don’t really believe that COVID will make a resurgence, but if it does, I’ll be there encouraging people to wear a mask. But I’m not gonna freak out and declare a state of emergency because a researcher tweeted some toilet thought.