I want to talk for a minute about fairness, "objectivity" & both sides-ism in journalism.

Yesterday I got a voicemail from a reader who criticized this story as "one-sided" for not including anti-abortion perspectives. I strongly disagree, & here's why.
expressnews.com/news/local/art… In her message, the reader suggested the story should have included pregnancy care centers (aka pregnancy crisis centers), people who think Planned Parenthood is "murdering babies," adoption for unintended pregnancies, and an upcoming prayer gathering for unborn children.

As this article makes clear, the American response to the coronavirus has been an abject failure.

San Antonio’s surge this summer — tens of thousands of cases, thousands of hospitalizations, hundreds of deaths — is a direct result of this.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… Over the past few months, as SA’s surge spiraled out of control, local officials pleaded with residents to distance, to wear masks. Devoid of an overarching state & federal response, they asked the public to individually respond to a collective problem. Of course it didn’t work.

Wow, from reading this thread you’d think San Antonio was inflating its COVID case counts. That would be a big deal!

Here’s what’s actually happening.

https://twitter.com/steveeagar/status/1283575782175014916

Like PCR tests, antigen tests also diagnose active coronavirus infections. It’s just a different kind of test that’s looking for other evidence of infection.

HAPPENING NOW: Joint press conference between city of San Antonio and Bexar County on mistaken release of a positive Wuhan evacuee this weekend.

Mayor Ron Nirenberg: "We simply cannot have a screw up like this from our federal partners." Nirenberg and County Judge Nelson Wolff say they do not believe the Diamond Princess evacuees who have not yet been isolated w/ positive tests or symptoms should not be released today, as scheduled.

They said they've requested another round of testing be done for those evacuees

Major coronavirus development from @saddamscribe: A Wuhan evacuee who was positive for the virus was released from isolation in San Antonio after two negative test results.

But when a 3rd test came back positive, she was put back in quarantine. expressnews.com/news/local/art… Understandably, people are going to panic over this news.

But it's worth noting that we do not yet know whether this person being "weakly" positive for the virus means she was still actively contagious. There's still much unknown about the virus.