The media is having a hard time rekindling the magic of mass COVID hysteria amid a recent uptick in cases of the society-altering virus and few are buying CNN’s latest attempt to sell fear.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing a rise in hospital admissions that could signal the “start of a late summer wave” has been seized on by the usual suspects to whip up an atmosphere of panic but a COVID-fatigued nation isn’t likely to take the plunge again.
“As a summer wave of Covid-19 hits the US, questions about vaccines, quarantine and testing are back,” wrote the self-proclaimed “most trusted name in news” in an article pushing booster jabs and more testing, with more positive results likely to be blown out of proportion in order to fuel media reports of COVID during a slow summer news cycle of wall-to-wall Trump.
Covid-19 is on the rise again as the world approaches the fourth virus season since the coronavirus arrived on the scene https://t.co/kN43FD8B8I
— CNN (@CNN) August 4, 2023
“I would probably go and get it right now if you haven’t been boosted recently,” CNN quotes University of California San Francisco infectious disease specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.
But Twitter/X users aren’t exactly running to get in line and roll up their sleeves and took to the platform to savagely jab CNN.
CNN actually wants us to believe COVID-19 is “on the rise” again
Climate change propaganda must not be getting ratings https://t.co/SOsd933uVR
— Eric Spracklen (@EricSpracklen) August 4, 2023
CNN: “COVID-19 is on the rise again”
Reality: https://t.co/xKlbvR7r7u pic.twitter.com/m6vB8FxEMQ
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) August 5, 2023
It’s. A. Cold. https://t.co/9SsolDT3PU
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 4, 2023
Do you have your Virus Season decorations up yet? https://t.co/0iceHaUPaj
— Magills (@magills_) August 5, 2023
Bullshit. Stop with the misinformation and panic porn.
Shove your mask up your ass. https://t.co/3PEvzwtUqD
— Adrian Slade ⚡️❌ (@adriansladeshow) August 5, 2023
Nobody cares anymore. Stop trying to resurrect this garbage. https://t.co/ODJoHZkVtS
— Gabrielle Renee Seunagal (@gabseunagal) August 5, 2023
They will do anything to justify an all mail in ballot election https://t.co/91yJ6mS9mm
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) August 4, 2023
Nobody is buyin what they’re sellin https://t.co/6yo7k4RLix
— @wildtype (@HealthRadix) August 5, 2023
Perfect timing with an election around the corner. Just like 4 years ago.
CNN is counting on the average American to be scared and demand mail-in ballots.
“Oh president Buyden, please save me from the COVID monster” https://t.co/aZ9zfvNaWg
— Country Boy (@UF1) August 5, 2023
Oh wait, Ukraine isn’t as popular of a topic anymore, and people are starting to understand climate change is a scam, lets drag this back in… COVID19. https://t.co/Dcxdh9x6cJ
— Northern Ballistics Canada (@NorthBallistics) August 5, 2023
“Won’t be fooled again!”
– The @WHO https://t.co/3vZt1Wjm2e— Holger Dansk (@dansk_holger) August 5, 2023
CNN isn’t the only media outlet pushing the fear porn either. Last week an MSNBC medical analyst said that its time to break out the face diapers again.
MSNBC just won’t let go of the masks: ‘Time to bring them out again’ https://t.co/LPcMHJYRtc pic.twitter.com/tj1GmX5KRG
— BizPac Review (@BIZPACReview) August 6, 2023
“So, what I think people need to know is that, I would just keep people on alert, that when you’re in those crowded spaces, think about the cost of colds and sometimes many people don’t have any symptoms, a mask can be your best friend, keep it—back in time we had them in our pockets, in our coats and our backpacks, time to bring them out again, especially as the school season starts. We don’t want to see kids missing school for things we could have prevented,” said Dr. Kavita Patel, a White House policy director during the Obama administration.
“After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again,”CDC COVID-19 incident manager Dr. Brendan Jackson recently told NPR.
“We’ve seen the early indicators go up for the past several weeks, and just this week for the first time in a long time we’ve seen hospitalizations tick up as well,” he said. “This could be the start of a late summer wave.”
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