Media Driven Hysteria and Deliberate Propaganda

The UK and US medical establishment both downgraded the seriousness of Covid-19 to just the flu, however, the hysteria continues to run wild. Contextless infection and mortality numbers in places like New York City, Chicago, and Detroit provide ammunition for panic-mongers in the media. Anecdotal tragedy stories about young people who died are plastered all over the Internet, while the thousands of people who felt lousy for a few days, then recovered on their own are nowhere to be found.

Deliberately crafted propaganda stories circulate via social media. One such story is "millions of cell phone accounts closed" in china. Another one is thousands of funerary urns arrive in Wuhan. I think both stories come from the same group of people. They're meant to suggest that the numbers of people who died in China is vastly under-reported--so the disease is more serious than reported, the Chinese government are liars, and don't care about their people. I think that stuff is all basically anti-China propaganda.

I notice there's a weird discrepancy of infection numbers among the different regions in the US, like Cleveland and Detroit--similar demographics, climate, and population distribution. Cleveland has a few hundred cases, where Detroit is in the thousands already.

I have to give props to Elon Musk who was a skeptic from day one. I thought he was being setup as a dramatic character, but I think he actually spoke his mind, and was probably right.

Anyway, the daffodils are blooming here today after a couple of days of very warm spring rains. I think all this hysteria is going to be forgotten in a week or two. People are already pretty tired of the panic-mongering. Life goes on and will just flow around the nonsense of politicians and media hacks.