Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fh603p/how_the_new_york_times_stoked_covid_alarmism/
>>>
>>>
>>> A Bias for Panic
>>> How the New York Times stoked Covid alarmism
>>>
>>> / Eye on the News / Health Care
>>> Sep 10 2024
>>> / Share
>>> A 2018 Gallup poll found that 62 percent of Americans believe the media
>>> is biased. Did such bias affect coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic? I run
>>> a research team in the department of epidemiology at the University of
>>> California–San Francisco. In our report, the first to analyze a
>>> newspaper systematically, we found significant evidence of bias in the
>>> New York Times, considered by some to be the newspaper of record, on
>>> pandemic coverage—skewed toward overstating the threat posed by the virus.
>>>
>>> Our study examined all corrections issued by the New York Times to
>>> articles relating to the Covid-19 pandemic. Between 2020 and 2024, the
>>> newspaper issued 576 corrections for 486 articles. Naturally, in times
>>> of crisis, facing uncertain and evolving information, reporters will get
>>> facts wrong. Sometimes they may, for instance, over- or underreport the
>>> number of children who have died or misstate the effectiveness of
>>> interventions like lockdowns. If news organizations are unbiased, one
>>> would expect such errors to occur with relatively equal frequency.
>>>
>>> That’s not what we found. Instead, the paper’s errors tended to
>>> exaggerate the harm of the virus (or the effectiveness of
>>> interventions). Corrections were made for such errors nearly twice as
>>> frequently as for errors that downplayed harms. Fifty-five percent of
>>> errors overstated the harm of the virus, while only 24 percent
>>> understated (the rest were equivocal). In other words, when the New York
>>> Times got things wrong, it tended to do so in a way that falsely stoked
>>> fear and encouraged harmful social restrictions.
>>>
>>> In October 2021, a particularly notable correction read as
>>> follows—inviting questions as to how such a remarkable mistake could
>>> make it into print at all:
>>>
>>> An article on Thursday . . . misstated the number of Covid
>>> hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 63,000 from August
>>> 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic.
>>>
>>> Glad they could straighten that out.
>>>
>>> Not all reporters were equally culpable; some required more corrections
>>> than others. One in particular, Apoorva Mandavilli, was responsible for
>>> 7 percent of all corrections. When the “science and global health
>>> reporter” erred, she tended to exaggerate the risk of the virus:
>>>
>>>
>>> This same reporter is known for inserting her feelings into her content.
>>> In 2021, she tweeted the following: “Someday we will stop talking about
>>> the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas,
>>> that day is not yet here.” To my knowledge, the New York Times has not
>>> reassigned any reporter on the Covid-19 beat for getting things
>>> wrong—even when those errors appear to be byproducts of the author’s
>>> underlying prejudice.
>>>
>>> Over the last few years, the newspaper has faced more scrutiny of its
>>> ideologically skewed coverage. Opinion editor James Bennet, dismissed
>>> for publishing an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton in the summer of 2020,
>>> wrote a lengthy article in the Economist documenting how progressive
>>> ideology has captured the newsroom. Don McNeil was dismissed as chief
>>> science reporter for comments he had made years before. McNeil, it's
>>> worth noting, was open to the possibility of the lab-leak theory, having
>>> published essays that reignited mainstream interest in the subject—in
>>> contrast with his successor, Mandavilli.
>>>
>>> In any event, the newspaper’s distortions are skewed in the same
>>> direction as its political bias. When it came to Covid-19, Republicans
>>> tended to be more skeptical of sweeping governmental and public-health
>>> interventions like lockdowns, masking young children, and closing
>>> schools, and more concerned about their negative consequences. Florida
>>> governor Ron DeSantis reopened his state’s schools in the spring of
>>> 2020, against the advice of experts like Anthony Fauci, and opposed
>>> masking kids. Democrats, meantime, came to embrace stronger government
>>> policies, such as vaccine mandates. The Biden administration enforced
>>> the masking of toddlers in Head Start programs. The New York Times’s
>>> tilt on these matters appeared consistent with its traditional political
>>> sympathies.
>>>
>>> It should concern all of us that legacy media displayed such a strong
>>> bias during an unprecedented pandemic. Perhaps our research can prompt
>>> an internal audit at the Times to assess the paper’s role in
>>> intensifying fear and legitimizing harmful social policies. At a
>>> minimum, newspapers should implement more substantive checks and
>>> balances to ensure more balanced coverage—and avoid unduly promoting
>>> panic the next time a crisis strikes.
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

Source:
https://narkive.com/VGuQi9Pp.5

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart

....because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare