{"id":53199,"date":"2020-05-12T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53199"},"modified":"2020-05-12T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:52:26","slug":"why-does-the-mainstream-media-seem-so-desperate-to-keep-the-coronavirus-lockdowns-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53199","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Something doesn\u2019t smell right.  The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day has been declining, as has the number of deaths.  This is great news, and we should be hoping that the falling numbers are a sign that the pandemic is beginning to subside.  But the mainstream media has been relentlessly pumping out stories that warn of \u201cdisaster\u201d if the lockdowns are lifted \u201ctoo soon\u201d.  According to the mainstream media, by \u201cignoring science\u201d we are inviting a \u201csecond wave\u201d which will be even deadlier than the first one.  And it is certainly true that as we end the lockdowns more people will get exposed to COVID-19, but right now I do not know of a single hospital in the entire country that is currently being overwhelmed by this pandemic.  As long as our hospitals can handle it, there is no reason to continue the lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the mainstream media seems desperate to keep the lockdowns going, and so they keep telling us that we are \u201cinviting disaster\u201d by ending them.  For example, the following comes from a New York Times article that was just published entitled \u201cAs States Rush to Reopen, Scientists Fear a Coronavirus Comeback\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millions of working people and small-business owners who cannot earn money while sheltering at home are facing economic ruin. So dozens of states, seeking to ease the pain, are coming out of lockdown.<\/p>

Most have not met even minimal criteria for doing so safely, and some are reopening even as coronavirus cases rise, inviting disaster. The much-feared \u201csecond wave\u201d of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say, and instead may become a storm of wavelets breaking unpredictably across the country<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And this is how that article ended<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having 50 states and more territories do competing and uncoordinated experiments in reopening is \u201cdaring Mother Nature to kill you or someone you love,\u201d<\/strong> Dr. Frieden said. \u201cMother Nature bats last, and she bats a thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That sounds quite ominous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without a doubt, most Americans certainly do not want to see a loved one die after catching COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going? Something doesn\u2019t smell right.  The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day has been declining, as has the number of deaths.  This is great news, and we should be hoping that the falling numbers are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[29011,496,4901,27525],"class_list":["post-53199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-covid-19","tag-mainstream-media","tag-michael-snyder","tag-the-most-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53200,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53199\/revisions\/53200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}