The COVID Survey That Should Have Rocked the World

 

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Rothwell’s quote should have set off alarm bells in the Times newsroom. As the survey made clear, a misinformed and paranoid electorate was driving policy decisions in Washington as well as in every blue state and in every major city within a red state. Editors should have asked just who was misinforming these people and why.

American Spectator  "In March 2021, a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the New York Times shared the results of a comprehensive survey of 35,000 Americans done by Gallup and Franklin Templeton. True to form, the Times refused to face the survey’s epic implications.

"The Times started pulling punches in the headline, “Covid’s Partisan Errors: Republicans tend to underestimate Covid risks — and Democrats tend to exaggerate them.” This equivocation papered over the real news hook of the story, namely that health officials and their media enablers scared policy makers, especially in blue states, into making catastrophic, fear-based misjudgments.

“ 'To many liberals, Covid has become another example of the modern Republican Party’s hostility to facts and evidence,” wrote reporter David Leonhardt, unaware that he just delivered a laugh line. In assessing the GOP worldview, Leonhardt, like most of his media colleagues, saw hostility in just about every Republican gesture.

"Later in the article, for instance, he observed, “Conservatives tend to be more hostile to behavior restrictions and to scientific research.” An unbiased copy editor might have rewritten that sentence, “Conservatives tend to have a strong belief in individual freedom and can be skeptical of scientific research.” Unfortunately no such copy editor exists at the Times.

"To his humble credit, Leonhardt surprised his audience by admitting that “conservatives aren’t the only ones misinterpreting scientific evidence in systematic ways.” Yes, Virginia, “Americans on the left half of the political spectrum are doing it, too.”

"As noted in the subhead, conservatives appear to underestimate Covid risks while Democrats overestimate them. Leonhardt assured the reader that “underreaction has been the bigger problem with Covid.” Yet every bit of evidence he presented subverts his thesis."...

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Doctors are getting angry at their patients  "One of the more bizarre twists in the saga of the COVID pandemic has been doctors growing increasingly frustrated 

and even angry with patients asking for medical treatment rather than wholesale vaccination. We have been told for almost two years that COVID is a deadly disease. Naturally, when people test positive for COVID, they want to be treated to avoid serious illness. Instead, they are sent home to quarantine, with no medical treatment until they become seriously ill.

"Some patients take exception to this approach and ask for ivermectin, which is being used outside of the United States to treat early COVID. There is a significantly lower incidence of serious cases of COVID in countries that use ivermectin for early exposures.". . .