Current state of NEWS MEDIA focus, driven by Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” + grasping for $$$
“Endemic delusion”
Case in point: #TruckerConvoy
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science.org/content/articl…
“Endemic delusion”
Case in point: #TruckerConvoy
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science.org/content/articl…
Even @ScienceInsider is waffling in the hede: “some scientists”
With a nod to politics rather than public health by including a political scientist near the top.
NO quotes from public health arguing to open things up.
And THIS near the bottom:
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With a nod to politics rather than public health by including a political scientist near the top.
NO quotes from public health arguing to open things up.
And THIS near the bottom:
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There’s a LOT about Denmark with NO context of how 🇩🇰 differs from the US, especially vax rates. 🤦🏼♀️
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WHERE are the public discussions of metrics that remove #COVID19 decision making from (a lot of) politics?
@Jlguest @EmoryUniversity #epidemiologist >
Vax rates of 75% means communities with loudest opposition aren’t READY to open
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@Jlguest @EmoryUniversity #epidemiologist >
Vax rates of 75% means communities with loudest opposition aren’t READY to open
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The combo of #covid19 + TFG + today’s GOP suggests the United States has passed peak economics of scale.
Divestiture into federated states-as-countries should be explored. LOUDLY. Without tax $ from blue states, what would red states become? Third world, probably.
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Divestiture into federated states-as-countries should be explored. LOUDLY. Without tax $ from blue states, what would red states become? Third world, probably.
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What assets would be held/operated in common in this federation?
The federal highway system?
Electric grid?
Postal service? (It’s already hamstrung: took 10 days for 1st class letter to get from WA to NV in late January. Pony Express was faster.)
NOT the IRS.
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The federal highway system?
Electric grid?
Postal service? (It’s already hamstrung: took 10 days for 1st class letter to get from WA to NV in late January. Pony Express was faster.)
NOT the IRS.
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Sly benefit: dismantling of the Congressional-Military-Industrial complex … because, how to fund it?
No more ag supports. Corporate bailouts for crappy decisions (2008). CORPORATE (OIL!) WELFARE.
Federal land? Hand over to the state-as-country?
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No more ag supports. Corporate bailouts for crappy decisions (2008). CORPORATE (OIL!) WELFARE.
Federal land? Hand over to the state-as-country?
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FYI: another example of failed Hail Mary zone action (Murdoch’s @nypost took the bait, October 2020)
Flooding the zone with the New York Post
cjr.org/the_media_toda…
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Flooding the zone with the New York Post
cjr.org/the_media_toda…
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