Every...single...SARS-CoV-2 story has to mention that there have been thousands of deaths?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...avirus/616630/
Such acts are preventable. Most happen because of failures to take basic precautionary measures. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Trump has repeatedly failed to take such measures, and he continues to dismiss the threat, denying simple facts and implying that some form of exceptionalism will exempt Americans from suffering. Meanwhile, more than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Conley has had ample opportunities to do what Trump hasn’t done—speak objectively about the medical facts. Simply doing so would emphasize the importance of wearing masks and taking the virus seriously.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...irborne-spread
Experts on aerosols and the coronavirus said the change constitutes a profound shift in understanding of how the virus that has claimed almost 200,000 lives in the United States spreads. However, the updated two-page explanation provided little new guidance on how to protect against airborne transmission.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/opini...nio/index.html
Early Tuesday morning, Trump used Twitter to advise the nation to learn "to live with Covid" as if it's like the seasonal flu, and not a deadly new pathogen that has killed more than 210,000 Americans -- and more than one million in the rest of the world -- in less than eight months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/o...-patients.html
The people who come to my hospital seeking care are largely underserved with underlying conditions. As they struggled and wheezed, they may have thought of their own mortality in the context of the more than 211,000 lives cut short — too many in their prime, healthy one day, dead a week or two later.
Let me put it in bike terms, the above is the equivalent of those two corny dudes, Phil and Paul, describing drafting on every single telecast of every single stage of the TDF. But I think in this case it insults the intelligence of a larger cross section.
The Fake News Crowd is very sensitive to this journalistic convention (manipulation).
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