“Normalizing constant mass reinfection with COVID requires shoving a lot of inconvenient data out of the way. From excess heart attacks and strokes, to falling test scores, to unprecedented rates of long-term illness, to record worker sick days, to overwhelmed hospitals, to increasing student absences, it all has to be buried, denied, or explained away.” —Julia Doubleday

“Step one is to get educated, step two is to get angry.”

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/nytimes-invents-increasingly-bizarre

#covid #PublicHealth #disinformation

NYTimes invents increasingly bizarre explanations for pandemic-era student absence crisis

Major media outlets continue laundering Biden's failed pandemic response by attempting to hide student illness behind nonsensical explanations.

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@harold

> He rejected my explanation, saying the kids’ doctor assured his family that this was a simple case of “catching up on illness” after “lockdown.”

WTF is "catchinig up on illness"?

@harold
I'm surprised at how much work maintaining a state of cognitive dissidence seems to be.
One would think that after a while it would just be easier to accept factual science instead of increasing convoluted description of what is going on.

#science #medicine #covid

@harold step 3 is to quit making covid the boogeyman which obfuscates the genuine causes of these multifaceted issues.I mean. What's next? Covid causes autism?