https://twitter.com/aslavitt/status/1436856483795267584
The dramatic dismissal of a “freedom to breathe” really exemplifies his authoritarian attitudes, doesn’t it?
Namely, the New York Times has finally accepted that we are not in the nonsensical “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
They recently published article uncovering a shocking truth about who is actually dying from COVID. The exact same people who have always faced the most risk from the virus; elderly people.
The author claims that it’s an “uncomfortable” truth, that the risk of COVID death has long been exacerbated by age. That this is newsworthy shows how utterly inept the Times and many other outlets have been in their coverage.
But they do make a surprising point for a major media outlet; the high rate of vaccination among seniors doesn’t appear to be helping.
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The Times finishes by explaining what the media’s misdirections have really been about; distaste for Republicans.
“But hearing the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro or the Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick so blithely dismissing the deaths of older adults in 2020 probably made the whole subject seem considerably more taboo to the rest of us than it might’ve been otherwise.”
Because conservatives told the truth, it became an untouchable subject for those on the left. So colleges continue to enforce vaccine and booster mandates. Schools discriminate based on vaccination status. Fauci is allowed to continuously misrepresent reality.
All because Republicans were right about the risks of COVID.
The media never fully admits what this says about them or their partners in the public health industrial complex.
Accuracy and factual interpretations of evidence are not acceptable if they come from the wrong people.
It doesn’t matter that Shapiro and Patrick and many others were right, it matters that they’re part of the “bad guys” team.
ianmsc.substack.com
Oh @SamSpade
The dramatic dismissal of a “freedom to breathe” really exemplifies his authoritarian attitudes, doesn’t it?
Namely, the New York Times has finally accepted that we are not in the nonsensical “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
They recently published article uncovering a shocking truth about who is actually dying from COVID. The exact same people who have always faced the most risk from the virus; elderly people.
The author claims that it’s an “uncomfortable” truth, that the risk of COVID death has long been exacerbated by age. That this is newsworthy shows how utterly inept the Times and many other outlets have been in their coverage.
But they do make a surprising point for a major media outlet; the high rate of vaccination among seniors doesn’t appear to be helping.
[clip]
The Times finishes by explaining what the media’s misdirections have really been about; distaste for Republicans.
“But hearing the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro or the Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick so blithely dismissing the deaths of older adults in 2020 probably made the whole subject seem considerably more taboo to the rest of us than it might’ve been otherwise.”
Because conservatives told the truth, it became an untouchable subject for those on the left. So colleges continue to enforce vaccine and booster mandates. Schools discriminate based on vaccination status. Fauci is allowed to continuously misrepresent reality.
All because Republicans were right about the risks of COVID.
The media never fully admits what this says about them or their partners in the public health industrial complex.
Accuracy and factual interpretations of evidence are not acceptable if they come from the wrong people.
It doesn’t matter that Shapiro and Patrick and many others were right, it matters that they’re part of the “bad guys” team.
Major Media Finally Admits There is No 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated'
One of the most destructive lies over the past few years has been that severe COVID outcomes exclusively affected unvaccinated people. This lie was repeated ad nauseam for much of 2021 and even into 2022, with the President of the United States himself using this destructive messaging.
ianmsc.substack.com
Oh @SamSpade