For example, discussions of herd immunity, when to go back to work and how, the next waves, prioritizing risks, etc. all have to be had. The stock market isn't a humane priority or reason but there will be painful trade-offs and we have to talk about them.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242266044418404352 …
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Instead of reporting, we got scripts "travel bans are racist", "panic is bad", "overreaction has downsides" etc that are sometimes appropriate, but weren't to this. That's the whole value of journalism though! Break the script and investigate! Otherwise, it's autopilot punditry.
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It's a failure akin to "what about her emails" reporting in 2016. Journalists didn't understand odds versus poll averages and coupled error (all that was in your footnotes) when, by March, it was clear to me he had a chance (I wrote it in NYT then) and to the polls in summer.
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There was enough reporting to put the pieces together, plus the scientific papers, and some of the reporting is excellent. Go through the op-ed pages though, and weep. I did. Go through the explainers and the curator type pieces with advice, and weep. That's what people read.
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There were some good, early articles. Surely this piece was a wake up call for many? Perhaps it was an outlier? My perception is probably biased; I was convinced of an impending pandemic, so probably didn't read the "it's just the flu" articles: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/health/coronavirus-pandemic-china.amp.html …
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