posted April 14, 2020 12:03 PM            

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As the coronavirus outbreak rapidly spread across the world and into the United States, several public-health experts both within and outside of the federal government sounded the alarm about the severity of the crisis on an email chain they called "Red Dawn."

The New York Times over the weekend published about 80 pages of emails it obtained. The correspondence included top officials in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert and top academics and infectious-diseases specialists.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-emails-show-experts-alarm-ov er-trump-admin-coronavirus-response-2020-4

posted April 14, 2020 03:06 PM            

The Spanish Flu killed millions in 1918 and yet today we are better than ever.

I believe in Complexity theory.

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The basic premise of complexity theory is that there is a hidden order to the behavior (and evolution) of complex systems, whether that system is a national economy, an ecosystem, an organization, or a production line.

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BTw, it is not over yet. The Novel Corona virus becomes dormant and reactivates in positives. Much like the cold flu virus. Human cannot even cure Cold flu to this day. All disease models are bogus.

posted April 14, 2020 03:08 PM            

The idea that the NY Times is a source for credible news was debunked years ago.

Trump’s Handling of Coronavirus Approved by 60% in Gallup Poll
Justin Sink

Democrats, independents rally to president amid viral outbreak

For too long, the media downplayed the danger of coronavirus
Hans Bader

... I didn’t start writing about coronavirus until a couple weeks ago, when I repeatedly called for the closure of the schools to reduce the spread of the disease and give the healthcare system time to cope.

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The media systematically understated the threat to our country and the world posed by coronavirus. For example, a Washington Post article in February said, “Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for now.” On March 4, CNN’s Anderson Cooper said, “if you’re freaked out about the Coronavirus you should be more concerned about the flu.” CNN wrote, “Why are some fears misguided? While the novel coronavirus has infected more than 75,000 people” worldwide, “it’s caused far fewer deaths than the flu … since the novel coronavirus was first detected in the United States in January, 15 people have been diagnosed with the illness as of Wednesday. None of them has died.” The Daily Beast wrote that “coronavirus, with zero American fatalities, is dominating headlines, while the flu is the real threat.”

Trending: WHO official: Suspected human-to-human transmission ‘from the start,’ but WHO echoed Chinese denials for weeks

As journalist Brent Scher notes, a month ago, CNN was “telling readers that the coronavirus was basically just a less severe, less contagious seasonal flu causing racist attacks against Asians.” As a CNN article put it, “What’s spreading faster than coronavirus in the US? Racist assaults and ignorant attacks against Asians.”

That mindset was echoed by the Washington Post. It argued that “our brains make coronavirus seem scarier than it is” and that “we should be wary of an aggressive government response to coronavirus.” For example, it said that “fighting coronavirus with travel bans is a mistake.”

Similarly, Vox minimized the risks posed by coronavirus. “Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No,” it said. “For most people in the US, though, there’s really no reason to worry,” Vox said. Instead, it claimed, the panic over coronavirus exposed “the history of racism and ‘cleanliness.'”

The New York Times suggested that fears triggered by coronavirus were a bigger problem than coronavirus itself. It wrote that “in Europe, fear spreads faster than the coronavirus itself.” It suggested that racism against Asians spawned by coronavirus was the real problem, not the disease itself, and that “the risk of catching it” is “low.”

Conservative commentators at places like Fox called the alarm being raised over coronavirus a “scam” and a “hoax.”

The media’s downplaying the danger of coronavirus mattered enormously. It prevented coronavirus from being nipped in the bud. It led to infections from the disease growing exponentially, to many times larger of a problem than if aggressive measures had been taken against it even a few days earlier. Left unchecked, coronavirus cases can double every three days and rise a thousand times in a month.

I have degrees in law, economics, and history — not medicine. So I relied on the media to keep me informed about any major health risks posed by coronavirus, trusting that the media would seek out medical experts to shed light on any such risks.

That turned out to be a mistake on my part, given the media’s pervasive failure to adequately warn the public about the danger posed by coronavirus.

Now, the leftist, brain dead media are trying to sweep all their..."coronavirus, no problem" news reports into the toilet.

Rational people aren't drinking the leftist news Kool-Aid.

posted April 14, 2020 05:09 PM            

The emails are NOT the Media but professionals in the field.

posted April 14, 2020 06:18 PM            

I could show you emails saying the author is a shape shifting reptilian space alien.

Any idiot can find disgruntled people from a different administration...who wish to substitute their guidance for those in the current administration.

Fact:
Trump went against the prevailing opinions...of the press, of democrat loons, of Hollywood morons and shut down air travel. Saved thousands or 10s of thousands of American lives by doing so.

I've learned that anything written by the NY Times must be examined closely...down to the punctuation marks.

Btw, I did read the emails...before my 1st comment on this thread.