PhineasC

Stop pushing this kid stuff here. It's all been debunked. It's incredibly harmful to keep kids terrified, masked, and separated from friends and family.

It has been transformed into a contentious political and personal privacy issue by certain parties (some of whom now want to go door-to-door and read people's text messages over it), so it is no longer a simple answer. Everyone needs to keep in mind that minorities and young people continue to be a very large percentage of those refusing the vaccine. The precious media would have you believe it is just Trump rednecks saying no. Not true.

Are you guys owned by Sinclair? If so, yes, they do.

Exactly. It isn’t just about reporting slightly slanted news any more. Now the focus is on actively destroying the opposition, tearing them down, ruining lives via doxxing, etc. This goes beyond a profit motive, IMO. The ethics of the journalism profession are in serious doubt.

LOL at wishing COVID on people you disagree with on a weather board. This is where it always ends up with you guys. Barely hidden with some of you. Do better, man. No clue why the vax gang gets so mad when other people don’t get the jab and are fine. It’s weird!

What is it like being the guy who follows around the guy who trolls a weather forum banter thread?

I think to focus on this as 100% a capitalism issue misses the reality that many large media outlets have become extremely partisan and activist-centered at this point. They have political reasons to push certain message relentlessly. That these agendas dove-tail nicely with the profit motive doesn't mean we should ignore them. I don't disagree with what you are posting at all, just wanted to highlight it isn't all just fat-cats smoking cigars in the newsroom counting bucks anymore.

A quick check of the CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News homepages reveals that the misinformation is coming from the media itself... I'm sure there is still some unbiased news to be found in the "cat stuck up a tree" local stuff. Hard-hitting for sure. National news is just pure garbage now, though.

Defending the media coverage of COVID at this point is a losing battle, son. No one really trusts the media anymore. That ship has sailed.

I think there is more to this than just trying to get clicks for revenue, but that is clearly a huge part of it. It sometimes seems as if the media can't decide whether they want to scare people into getting the highly-effective vaccines, or they want to convince people the vaccines will soon fail due to mutant variants. Very unhelpful either way.

Surprised the airlines haven't mandated the vaccine, to be honest. I'm surprised they let her board the plane.

Be careful, or the casedemic will get ya! That hospital needs 40k ventilators, stat!

It also helps we aren't sending sick people into nursing homes and locking up families in tight quarters with no ventilation. We also aren't venting everyone who walks in the door with a fever anymore.

Yet you keep popping in to respond.

This is the same exact stuff that was peddled here in 2020 about Florida and Texas. Just wait two more weeks for mass death!!

I know, but the question was over cases. The vaccine doesn’t stop the “casedemic” nonsense.

They can still test positive for the virus. Not sure where you heard otherwise. Effectiveness against serious disease is a different matter. Don’t worry your precious jab juice is not quite worthless… yet. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/israel-says-the-delta-variant-is-infecting-vaccinated-people-as-many-as-50percent-of-cases-but-they-are-less-severe/ar-AALoer5

LOL “die off” Maybe if they are 90 years old or 450 lbs with diabetes and heart disease living in filth.

Vaccinated people can easily catch the delta variant and become “cases” dude…

Pissing on Stein's grave in SNE at this point.

Good prep for the upcoming NNE winter. Just shift that heaviest south a bit. Gotta clip NNJ!

This thing about the kids really bothered me. It should bother everyone. The way this was handled with kids really sucked, but plenty of folks still want to vax toddlers for their own selfish reasons. Are you one of them?

Looks like the “scientists” finally acknowledged what every moron redneck anti-vaxxer has known for well over a year: COVID is no more dangerous for kids than the flu. Just a sick read: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9769283/Children-face-one-500-000-risk-dying-Covid-amid-row-kids-vaccinated.html Such a shame what paranoid, selfish adults did to the kids: “One of the studies is the first to determine the number of children who died from Covid rather than with the virus. It concluded that the virus killed 25 children in England. The coronavirus contributed to 0.8 per cent of the 3,105 deaths in children from all causes in the first year of the pandemic. During the same period, 124 children died from suicide, while 268 died from trauma, showing that Covid 'is rarely fatal' in children, the researchers said.” I said a long time ago we needed to separate those who died with the virus from those who died from the virus.

Very familiar radar depiction from the past winter…

Some of the vaccine hesitancy in the South is from African-Americans, not Trump voters. Meme-tier charts like this never get to that detail... But I'm not too surprised. The fear over the virus just among people I know went down ideological lines. I didn't know any Trump voters who were double-masked outside and hosing down their groceries with sanitizer.