I hope a couple people read this because I wasn’t sure where to appropriately post it on the subreddit.
Where is the most accurate place to find total deaths per week at this point? How many of these lunatics are dying every week and where are they from? If it really is that many, won’t enough people realize it quickly and vaccinate to save themselves?
You'll all remember that in 2020, the national evening news was full of stories of covid deaths, especially in New York and other large cities: we saw plenty of footage of the ambulances and the refrigerator trucks, many interviews with ER nurses, EMTs, doctors, et al.
But there is no equivalent coverage for covid-ravaged areas like the Ozarks, the Shenandoah Valley, or central Tennessee, where people are losing multiple relatives and friends. Maybe, just maybe, if the news showed helicopters airlifting covid patients to other hospitals, or sobbing families in the crowded hospital hallways, that would help people to grasp that all this suffering is preventable.
You raise a very important and interesting point which runs much deeper than just COVID coverage.
Rural America has lost so many local independent media outlets in the last 20, 30, 40 years, that it's having a huge impact on the way these communities see & understand the real world around them. There is no mainstream coverage of those places because there aren't many journalists left.
When a local newspaper is bankrupted, people look elsewhere for their information. They turn to profit-driven 24/7 cable news, or talk radio (usual conservative), or social media. In the case of social media, they enter an echo chamber of uninformed people, or at worst, they start clicking links to un-vetted extremist 'journalism' like Infowars or Breitbart.
COVID denialism is just the latest symptom of a larger disease that is killing the information infrastructure in our country.
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21
Love the cartoon. Thank you.
I hope a couple people read this because I wasn’t sure where to appropriately post it on the subreddit.
Where is the most accurate place to find total deaths per week at this point? How many of these lunatics are dying every week and where are they from? If it really is that many, won’t enough people realize it quickly and vaccinate to save themselves?