04-16-2020, 04:51 PM
(04-16-2020, 03:14 PM)Dill Wrote: This takes bits of information given at different times by different people, with different levels of knowledge and authority, and frames them as contradictory dicta from one source--"the experts." (I have mentioned before the dubious use of lists by right wing sources--30,000 "scientists" who dispute global warming, 400 police incidents created by Occupy Wall Street, Hannity's list of "289 promises Trump kept," etc.)
This is the OPPOSITE from the kind of information dispensed by Cuomo's news conference today--an attempt to explain to the public how models and projections are made, and how they determine the rate of spread and then vary according to changes in the rate of spread.
Why would you want to keep that incitement to accept disinformation circulating?
I love how so-called skeptics love to post this sort of thing (no offense Hawk, I know you're solid, just a criticism of the post itself, although it is funny) to take shots at things experts are suggesting to combat the pandemic. These are generally the same kinds of people that will accuse people of "getting their facts from the lame stream media".
It takes a dump truck load of cognitive dissonance to criticize out-in-the-open media, no matter how slanted it is, then in the same argument support your opinion with memes and garbage you've heard from unaccountable, wild-west social media. Social media is literally the least legit source of information for anything, but it seems to be the only source of content for a sadly large percentage of the population. Much of it is demonstrably false and intentionally nihilistic, but it does the job of driving the herd well and inoculating the narrative from fact. These people will get other people killed.