One might argue that scientists are good at putting a case to scientists, and journalists are good at putting a case to the public. And then there are some scientists good at putting a scientific case to the public, and a handful of journalists who understand science well enough to put a scientific case accurately to the public.
That's because as Americans, all we need is some good old fashioned boot straps to pull our sadness out of our bodies!
Speaking as someone who has been suicidal in the past, pretty much this. There are few things more aggravating than being volun-told to be someone else's bad faith bargaining chip.
In order to get the most sadness pulling power out of your boot straps, it's best to tie them in a sort of circular shape.
I'm quite highly introverted, so broadly I'm mostly happy not speaking to people to much and I'll amuse myself. However, I have noticed the less I've been speaking to people under lockdown (excluding my wife), the less I even want to. I think it is a warning that I could just slip away into self-isolation quite easily. I also think it's going to be a lot of effort for me to get back into normal social contact when it ends.
Actually there was it's a common bit of misinformation saying Trump made a claim he actually didn't.
It's more Scientists are used to working with specific complex terms while journalists if they did their job are meant to try and break this down into a digestible explanation. What actually tends to happen is they try for the most salacious sensational story they can make often not accurate to what was actually said or the scientific reality of what's happening or is even possible.
As some-one else who has been suicidal in the past and can look back and make the joke (yes I'm sure some of you are unhappy to hear I never followed through on it to a serious degree).
Like any news, it depends heavily on the journalist and newspaper - the more reputable, the more they take accurate reporting seriously. A person who gets their science from tabloids deserves all the salacious misinformation he or she gets.
I dunno Theranos and other stuff managed to keep being spread and pushed. Even when they do report on it they might throw people who were exposing things under the bus with dodgy editing jobs
Because cuomo got #metoo'd, and this is just extra fuel for the fire. If he hadn't gotten caught for sex crimes, no one would care about the cover up or seniors, except their families.
Republicans has been on about the seniors for many months. So have some what I'd say fallen Democrats.
I was ready to like this post up until the suggestion that people were trying to make the death toll rise. That's a little extreme. I'll give you gross negligence, I'd suggest Democrats were so focused on suggesting Trump's actions were paradoxically both insufficient and unneeded, they failed to prioritize actually doing the right thing, and Cuomo was king of this. "You didn't send nearly enough respirators, but also we don't need your hospital boat!" *puts patients in nursing homes*. And like, politics over people's lives is bad enough, you don't have to over-sell it and act like people wanted more deaths.
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I just keep remembering Moviebob and realising there are likely more people like him out there "No bad tactics only bad targets" or others pushing for some "Greater Good" approach under the belief that far more people would die due to Trump if people didn't take action..........It's not a nice thought but I think Cuomo wont be the only one found to be doing this but he's the only one being focussed on right now.
Tell us about the Jewish Space Lasers (tm) next! I mean as long as we're inventing conspiracies out of thing air...
Nah I'll leave that and the Rothschild Weather machines to your side.
