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NYT Daily ep on the coronavirus is *fascinating* — just a nonchalant convo about how this looks like another 1918 flu. For a lot of listeners, I'd guess this was the moment they realized that the tone of media elites would be roughly the same with or without mass graves looming
AFAICT, this is the first time anyone affiliated with a mainstream news org came out and said "hey, when this is all over you're probably going to know some people who died from it." I think most people were expecting brighter red flags from the media long before it came to that.
"just another spanish flu" is quite a statement Didn't it kill about 1-2% of the worlds population.
Spanish flu happened 10 yrs before penicillin, and the main treatment was tons of aspirin (some deaths were actually aspirin overdose). Public sanitation was also far worse, leading to greater spread. It's profoundly incompetent of them to say this will be at all similar.
The discussion wasn’t nonchalant - here is the transcript.pic.twitter.com/twicR2Cw3S
I'm talking about the incongruity between tone — both manner of speaking and word choice — and content. A lot of that isn't going to come through in the transcript.
I didn’t find that NYT Daily episode non-chalant at all. They discussed the very real possibility that someone you know will probably be killed. I appreciate you speaking truth to Media power, but this dismissive statement makes me feel you have an agenda.
Tone =/= content; if the content had been less startling, the discontinuity between tone and content would've been less noticeable. I'm not sure what you think my "agenda" is, and if you're going to accuse me of something I'd prefer you just say it clearly so I can defend myself
The disingenuousness is flooring. Terrorists might kill 100 people = hysteria Virus might kill 100 million people = “cool, drink Coke btw”
In fairness, we should be this chill about terrorists too
Not sure how anyone can "know" at this point the this will have 1918 magnitude. These are BS artists
Have you listened to the podcast? They didn't say it was a certainty at all. A spanish flu type situation was more talked about like a worst case scenario, but a very possible one.
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