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fishonjazz said:
Thats on you for watching the news. I said IM not seeing the hysteria. Im not into news much though and NEVER watch it on the TV and rarely ever click on any new related things online. So like I said, Im not seeing the hysteria. Also it sounds like there was 15 minutes devoted to to something. I saw 15 minutes of coverage for college football recently. Not sure that makes it hysteria or not though. Could simply be coverage of a topic that people want more info about. IDK.
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I misread your post. I thought you were saying that you weren't aware of any hysteria regarding what is being reported.
 
One thing that has always made me laugh: The people who use terms like "sheeple", "Fake news", and "mainstream media" are the ones who consume more news media than anyone else by far. If im ever in a discussion on facebook with someone and they bring up one of those terms its a guarantee that if I go to their own facebook page it will be full of political agenda leaning news topics. Tons of anti biden, left, democrat propaganda. Lots of tucker carlson. Lots of pro trump, anti mask stuff. Its a guarantee.
 
Scat said:
I misread your post. I thought you were saying that you weren't aware of any hysteria regarding what is being reported.
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This is correct. Cant be aware of it without watching or reading about it. Its nice. Everyone should try it. I highly recommend reading and watching less news media. Also, as I stated, I dont necessarily correlate 15 minutes of coverage of a topic to equal hysteria.
 
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One Brow said:
The antivaxxer movement has been using this rhetoric for decades.
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Right. But only 1 of our 2 political parties has opened the doors to these nutjobs. Now it’s part of their identity; 1. Must believe trump won in 2020 2. Must doubt vaccine science. We’ve now seen 2 years of Covid disinformation and anti vax rhetoric nonsense by right wing media outlets and politicians.
 
The Thriller said:
Right. But only 1 of our 2 political parties has opened the doors to these nutjobs. Now it’s part of their identity
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I know you want to believe that as it is the narrative and most anti-vax people getting media time are in the pro-Trump crowd, but before COVID hit in my part of the country, anti-vax was more of a left-leaning sentiment. The most anti-vax areas of California were deep blue granola eating areas. The most prominent face for the anti-vax movement was Jenny McCarthy who is very much not a Republican. She even quit the View when they asked her to pretend to be a Republican for ratings. Neither side of the political divide is free from nutjobs, and neither side should be characterized by their most extreme supporters.
 
Interesting perspective regarding the hysteria about the new variant (omicron) that the media is creating. I have spoken with 3 people this week (my wife and 2 co workers including one when I got to work today) about the new variant. I mostly just listened and didn't talk much as I usually do regarding something that could be seen as political or triggering to people. All 3 seemed to think that this new variant is not a big deal and 2 of them even thought that the new variant might be a good thing in the long run. (I think Al o meter said something similar). None of them were scared or worried. Maybe they just arent watching the right news sources or something but it doesn't seem like there is any hysteria or even mild fear going on in my interactions with people about the new variant. Since the media is only trying to scare everyone and create hysteria I wonder where they are getting their info to make them so unafraid.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
I know you want to believe that as it is the narrative and most anti-vax people getting media time are in the pro-Trump crowd, but before COVID hit in my part of the country, anti-vax was more of a left-leaning sentiment. The most anti-vax areas of California were deep blue granola eating areas. The most prominent face for the anti-vax movement was Jenny McCarthy who is very much not a Republican. She even quit the View when they asked her to pretend to be a Republican for ratings. Neither side of the political divide is free from nutjobs, and neither side should be characterized by their most extreme supporters.
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Yeah, the anti-vax movement used to be based on fear from middle-class, mostly liberal, suburban parents of children with autism, who swore there was nothing wrong with their genes and so it had to be because of something else, and they latched onto Wakefield's "study" to keep the myth of their superior breeding alive.

The difference is, of course, that the D's never tried to make those fears into policy. The R's have completely invited those folks in and embraced them, and so we have things like governors banning even private businesses from requiring masks.
 
fishonjazz said:
This is correct. Cant be aware of it without watching or reading about it. Its nice. Everyone should try it. I highly recommend reading and watching less news media. Also, as I stated, I dont necessarily correlate 15 minutes of coverage of a topic to equal hysteria.
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When it is a 30 minute TV broadcast 15 minutes on one subject is a ton of time but you wouldn't know that. You don't watch the evening news. ;)
 
The Thriller said:
You gotta love all of this Holocaust comparison to simple and rational protective measures.

The other night to watch a musical I had to show my vaccine card or a picture of it from my phone. It took like 5 seconds and made perfect sense in order to watch a musical with hundreds of people. I'm sure there are probably apps we could've used too.

The way the right has weaponized these logical measures and making it sound like this is 1930s Germany is just astounding to me.
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Some of idiots here compared it to Soviet genocide in Ukraine during Holodomor. These ****ers have it way too good and are spoiled brats to even mention current health measures and Holocaust or Soviet atrocities in one sentence. Privileged dumbasses.
 
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