But they already have. I thought the "burning meth lab" was a good analogy for what the media has become. Their "trustworthiness rating" and overall likeability is down close to congress. And dog bites. And intestinal parasites. And gas station sushi.
I'm inherently glad I'm on the end of the tape measure of life so I won't be around to see what this country degenerates into.
Not gonna be purty.....
Here you go D2, more about the original post from BBC. Pretty good example of consider the source before you get excited. My favorite line is that she said Jesus Christ was going to destroy Facebook if her video wasn't put back. They noted that FB servers still seemed to be running.
www.bbc.com
And it just keeps getting more crazy as the days go by.Here you go D2, more about the original post from BBC. Pretty good example of consider the source before you get excited. My favorite line is that she said Jesus Christ was going to destroy Facebook if her video wasn't put back. They noted that FB servers still seemed to be running.
Stella Immanuel - the doctor behind unproven coronavirus cure claim
Stella Immanuel has caught the US president's attention for claiming hydroxychloroquine cures Covid-19.
You don't think you'll last a couple more years?I'm inherently glad I'm on the end of the tape measure of life so I won't be around to see what this country degenerates into.
Not gonna be purty.....
Part of the reason I was trying to see what was posted is because I understand that woman was belittled for what she was saying. There were possessively quotes she had said at a different time, and was being discredited for what she was saying later because of it. So I guess if she is off the wall all the other Doctors are also, and their reports are worthless?And it just keeps getting more crazy as the days go by.
You'd have to look at what each said, and what their credentials are. What she said about having 350 patient and they were all alive is not very helpful. It doesn't look good if you are hanging out with a fruit loop IMHO. I sure wouldn't pick one of them for a surgeon. The original hydroxychloroquine data was obtained similarly, from cases with no controls. Because it causes heart problems in some people even when used for malaria, Fauci and others said don't use it for covid except in a hospital and as part of a drug trial with controls, and especially use with caution because covid itself damages the heart. The combination might be fatal. I think those trials did not show it to be helpful. You could probably find those studies they should be published by now. An argument could be made that under certain circumstances not tested yet, it might beat nothing...
I imagine they just banned it for covid use, not the uses for which it was approved?
www.medpagetoday.com
I don't advocate for shutting the thread down, and if folks actually want to keep jabbing each other for another 100 pages that's fine. I never advocate shutting down debate or discussion unless it gets truly nasty and just out of hand. My argument is just to those involved in the daily fight that they are just wasting their time. I used to spend a lot of time in online forums several years ago debating politics and theology and science. I went to forums specifically for debating such topics and engaged in it for often hours a day. I finally burned myself out from it, and learned a lot of good lessons along the way. My subsequent dive into a massive study of american history has also further broadened my perspective. I realize that ignorance has always had a loud voice in societies going back thousands of years. Its not new today - nor unprecedented. I used to feel a little sense of dread about our world and society - as if we were devolving into a ignorant bunch of sheep, led by an all to influential media. Then I realized this happened in the 1700's as well, and the 1800's. None of it is new. Social media just makes it much more easy for the ignorant to make much more noise and reach more people now, but the ignorant in society have always had a dominant steering current on affairs. The "news media" has always been biased, and at times down right dirty. Newspapers in the 1790's for example were vicious and down right propaganda papers with little fact printed. They were far worse than a CNN or MSNBC or Fox News of today. Its just all louder today, with the internet and social media. We are dominated and controlled by the fringes on each side of the political divide. I think my years of book reading on the revolution and up through the early 1900's has vastly expanded my perspective, and ultimately helped me to settle into a more mature mindset about society at large. I've tried to share my new perspective with friends and family when I have the chance but it is often rejected. People are so stuck on their narrow world view they will hear nothing except that which further reinforces their own opinions. We all tend to gravitate to echo chambers, and it takes a certain level of maturity and self awareness I think to step outside of that and attempt to expand your perspective. This is the position with which I make my post above, not to try and silence anyone.
