The media manipulation throughout this whole thing has been ridiculous. What ever happened to "you can't shout 'fire' in a crowded theater"?
What will be the way forward to stop this crap? How do we decentralize the media and encourage truth instead of hype?
In what way do you think media should be telling "the truth instead of hype"?
Most I see being published are hard numbers of infections, deaths, ICU occupation levels, morgues being made from repurposed ice rinks, etc etc...
Do you think it would be better to censorship media? How would that be decentralisation?
Take this story for example:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-teenager-death-california-health-insurance-care-emergency-room-covid-19-a9429946.html"Coronavirus: Teenage boy whose death was linked to COVID-19 turned away from urgent care for not having insurance"
First of all...the mayor is doing an interview in front of a FEMA camp talking about this poor kid who died.
The kid went to a local private clinic, he didn't have insurance for the clinic so he was sent to the government hospital.
He had a heart attack (not a COVID-19 symptom) on the way to the hospital. The government hospital had him alive 6 hours before he died in the government hospital.
The article is filled with "implying" that he died from Corona virus. "The teen’s death comes amid a wave of reports about young victims suffering deadly symptoms from Covid-19"
Even though he didn't die of it. "Los Angeles’ County Department of Public Health later said the teen’s death was taken off a list of deaths associated with Covid-19 in the area."
Here they are trying to imply that healthy young people are dying from the virus, dancing around actually pointing to any evidence:
"Another New York-area nurse said: “What I really want the public to know is that the old and sick are not the only ones who are getting severely ill and dying from this virus. Both of my patients I took care of over the weekend were in their 30’s. Both with no known past medical history.”"....and? Recovered? You had young patients? then what?!?
Such bullshit. They are culpable in the destroying lives around the world.
What is my solution? No, not to censor. I don't suggest we outlaw the dollar when I advocate the far superior Bitcoin. I don't advocate we ban taxis when supporting Uber. I don't support banning current news sources but we need something to replace this centralized shit. Things like twitter and social media are helping. You can get tweets from people actually in the New York hospital tweeting about the fact that they're changing the death certificates of people who died of pneumonia or bronchitis to Corona virus.
We need a way to award people revealing factual, relevant truth to the world. Right now, only hype and sensationalism is rewarded with views and ad revenue.
