SHAMEFUL Covid 'reporting' The Age

This appeared in the NEWS not the Opinion section today

Let's go through each fraudulent claim one by one:

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theage.com.au/national/we-re… 2/ Referring to deaths but ignoring the transmission is grossly misleading.

The fatality rate until 1 January in Victoria was 0.83%

Since 1 January it has been 0.103% (really far less given missed cases)

The Age didn't bother to mention this fairly critical data point

If there was ever a time for a Good News Thread, it's now

With the mainstream media drowning in misinformation, here's the thread that cuts through the fraud and sticks to the facts, the whole facts and nothing but the facts

Cometh the hour, cometh the Good News 🧵 1/ O.Mi.God.

Omicron has peaked in South Africa. Reported infections have dropped for four days running and test positively rate has crashed below 30%

This is it. We're done.

(Note to European politicians, South Africa defeated Omi without imposing restrictions)

Witness the industrial Covid Industrial Fear Complex at work

These misleading, self-interested, self-promoting grifters are sadly, brilliantly effective (and winning)

Here's how it all works

A depressing🧵 1/ The Covid Zero Fatalists have strong Twitter followings (Ding, Yaneer, Hyde, Bowtell, Crabb) and cross-promote each other. None are infectious disease experts but somehow became epidemiologists during Covid (Ding was a nutritionist, Hyde an indigenous health researcher...)

Good News Thread - Special Omicron Edition

As a cloud of fear sweeps across the world, let’s take a closer look at the dreaded variant with a world record thirty mutations

But ignore the doomer headlines and as Johnny Drama would say, “maybe Omi's not so bad after all”

A 🧵 1/ The Bad News: Rolling 7-day infections increased in South Africa from 262 on 7 November to 1,691 daily cases on 27 November (they have been steady at around 2,800 per day since Friday)

But there are several problems with this overly simplistic causation-correlation point

This week’s Good News Thread brings you the goods from the US, Singapore, Sweden, ACT, NSW, Victoria, the UK and even Japan

Like a fine Shakespearean play, buckle up enjoy this especially juicy 🧵in fifteen delightful parts 1/ Well, that de-escalated quickly

Daily infections in the United States have crashed by 50 percent in just two months. That's like the WeWork of infection drops

What Delta giveth, Delta taketh away

Good. News. Time.

That weekly thread where we summarise the good Covid stuff that just happened

A jam-packed🧵this week Globally, the world is vanquishing Covid

Deaths have hit their lowest level for a year (and unlike last year, are decreasing not increasing now)

Almost the entire world is trending lower – the big four: US, Brazil, Europe, India all trending dramatically lower:

Time for another good news thread (that is, the news that media sites don't report because good news doesn’t get clicks)

And it just keeps getting better from around the world

Buckle up. A nice 🧵 England has bent its hospitalisation curve like Beckham

Daily admissions have dropped from 791 to just over 500 (in just one month)

Meanwhile the much feared ‘Back to School’ infection explosion never happened (infections actually dropped)

The Covid data from around the news keeps getting better.

But since Australian media only reports the bad stuff, here’s a quick thread on all the good Covid data from around the world (yep, there really is some positive stuff happening).

A🧵 The US Delta wave has clearly peaked. Hospitals never overran (even in Florida, which despite warnings of ICU's being overwhelmed, peaked at 92%)

Interestingly, US first dose vax rate is 63.7% – NSW just hit 63.7% first doses of total population as well