by Joy Pullmann
The latest news cycle over President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.
While we are all aware that COVID-19 can be a truly devastating and deadly disease for some, despite the volume of media coverage dedicated to it in the past seven months, the American public still lacks crucial context for understanding Trump’s diagnosis. Not only has major media coverage not brought clarity, but it has also, as usual, obscured reality. This is especially harmful to a story with such significant potential ramifications for the nation and world.
As the president himself has alluded to in his post-diagnosis social media posts, it’s common knowledge that the Wuhan virus hits the elderly especially hard. Trump is 74. Yet even among his age demographic, surviving the disease, not death, is by far the norm.
According to the Centers for Disease Control’s “current best estimate” based on the data so far, of Americans who are ages 70 and older, 94.6 percent who test positive for COVID will survive. Other countries have seen roughly similar survival rates. So the president’s odds are thankfully good.
They are improved by the fact that Trump is in relatively good health for his age and has the best medical care on the planet. In addition, medical professionals have learned a lot about how to treat COVID-19, and now have excellent success in doing so, especially when the infection is caught early. Trump’s was, since he is tested daily. Further, unlike the Americans who have been barred from effective coronavirus treatments due to anti-Trump animus, political correctness will not keep Trump from getting the best available treatments.
So while of course none of us knows the future, or can tell whether our president will against these good odds end up in the small minority of those who succumb to this disease, we have many reasons to hope and pray for the best.
Regardless of how things eventually work out for our president and nation, panic is never helpful. Panic impedes sensible responses to danger. Panic makes things worse, not better. Yet it is predictably what our nation’s media served up, along with a steaming side of wild conspiracy theories.
Trump tweeted a video update from the hospital at 6:51pm.
Ian Bremmer tweeted this 7 minutes later.
AMAZING pic.twitter.com/MUYjQo0qHm
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) October 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1312045961800224770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1312045961800224770%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Fcorporate-media-is-vomiting-trump-coronavirus-reporting-all-over-the-bed%2FThis person is a Vanity Fair writer and former New York Magazine writer who is working on a book about New York City’s experience with COVID-19. Notice how many retweets these got.
Sherman’s article linked to in this tweet falsely reports that Trump’s physician “told reporters that Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Wednesday—a day earlier than Trump previously disclosed.” Instead of asking an easy follow-up question to clarify the physician’s timeline for Trump’s diagnosis, reporters ran with false claims that the president had been diagnosed a day earlier than previously disclosed, causing them to inaccurately assert he had attended a donor event while knowingly COVID-positive.Sherman also engages in the coy journalism trick of spreading gossip and innuendo while pretending to discount it.
news marketing is short lived-72 hrs. maybe 96 tops. now what is paedophile biden was tested positive, or has he?? his basement time or quarantine time would answer this question.
it the paedophile going to wear a wire to the second debate as in the first?
OMG, the second moderator worked for the paedophile, well another 2 against 1.. Wed with the vp debabe, only a matter of time when kamaslut implodes.
Like the liberal polls, the liberal media prefers to report what they WANT to be true rather than what IS true. This could explain much of their constant disappointment, frustration and rage.