"By the end of April, the coronavirus will have killed more Americans in just one month than the Vietnam War killed during its entire duration."
As covid-19 deaths surpass 50,000 in the USA, at what point do pandemic DENIALISTS become complicit in the ongoing fatalities?
As covid-19 deaths surpass 50,000 in the USA, at what point do pandemic DENIALISTS become complicit in the ongoing fatalities?
24
April, 2020
Earlier
this week, a man who thought the coronavirus was a hoax spread by the
left-wing media to damage Trump wound
up dead with a coronavirus infection.
It begs the question: Was he listening to Rush Limbaugh? Sean
Hannity? Or Ron Paul, who
claimed the coronavirus was a hoax?
All
those people and many more — including David
Icke and various indy media hosts —
have insisted that the coronavirus either doesn’t exist at all, is
no more dangerous than the regular flu, or isn’t really killing
very many people. For most of March and April, they have claimed the
coronavirus was “no worse than the flu,” even as the
coronavirus has now killed more Americans in just the last 17 days
than the seasonal flu kills in an entire year.
These
irresponsible people have downplayed the infectiousness of the virus,
claimed doctors and nurses were faking death certificates, and told
their own viewers or listeners things that would make them complacent
in the face of deadly global pandemic. In doing so, they
have spread complacency and
surely contributed to new infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Today
the number of deaths in the United States stands at 50,952.
By next Tuesday, coronavirus
deaths in the United States will exceed the total number of US
casualties experienced in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War took years to unfold, yet most of the coronavirus
deaths now recorded have taken
place over just the last 30 days.
(Over 50,000 now in the last 30 days. There were only 957 total
deaths in the USA as of March 24th.)
By
the end of April, the coronavirus will have killed more Americans in
just one month than the Vietnam War killed during its entire
duration.
Yet
the deniers continue to spread their dangerous disinformation —
mostly from pro-Trump, conservative media — insisting that the
coronavirus is less dangerous
than the flu, telling their audiences there’s nothing to worry
about.
That’s
why I wrote an article entitled, “Dear
President Trump: To save America, you must ignore the disinformation
from your own supporters who are ignorant about infectious disease.”
The article, as you might imagine, has not won me any friends in the
pro-Trump indy media that has been pushing the denialism lies about
the coronavirus. You might even say that by
telling the truth, I have now become the enemy of the more rabid
pro-Trump indy media outlets who
claim to be “truth tellers.”
It
turns out they are liars, just like the mainstream media. Even worse,
they are scientifically
illiterate liars.
For warning America and trying to save lives, we were attacked by the pro-Trump independent media
We
warned about these coming deaths two
months ago. We raised the alarm and told the truth, urging Americans
to wear masks, abide by the lockdowns and boost their immune systems
to fight against infections. In return, we were attacked by
independent media pundits, banned from indy media platforms and lied
about by the very people who were falsely telling their own audiences
that the pandemic was a hoax.
Now
we ask the obvious question: Are
those who pushed pandemic denialism now complicit in the ongoing
deaths of Americans?
While
the initial wave of deaths has “flattened” and will hopefully
settle over the next six weeks or so, what about subsequent
infections? What about the new infections that were spread during
“anti-lockdown” rallies during which rally organizers refused to
wear masks and failed to encourage others to wear protective masks?
What
about the protesters who verbally accosted doctors and nurses in the
streets, blaming them for staging a coronavirus “hoax” that many
protesters still believe is a global theatrical event that’s being
faked as a kind of global prank to fool the world for some reason.
What
about the protesters who wielded signs like, “Sacrifice the weak”
as a way to insist lockdowns end, even if it costs millions of lives
of our nation’s elderly and vulnerable?
These people — the deniers, the complacency pushers, the haters of medical personnel — are now complicit in the mounting deaths from the coronavirus.
They
have chosen to deceive their own audiences and promote complacency in
the face of an extremely dangerous, highly infectious pandemic. In
doing so, they
have contributed to the deaths of their own audiences via
complacency and denialism.
And
now we see the true cost of fake news from the scientifically
illiterate media, both “mainstream” and “alternative” media.
Those who don’t understand science and can’t do math have no
business commenting on infectious diseases they fail to understand.
Their bad
math and wild disinformation has
real-world consequences: Hospitalizations, health care costs,
possible exposures of doctors and nurses, and even death.
These
costs are being shouldered by society, not
by the dishonest media people who pushed the lies that resulted in
these costs.
Expect to see a wave of lawsuits against the independent media from families of coronavirus victims
That’s
why I expect to see, very soon, lawsuits
against media pundits who called the coronavirus a “hoax.” Family
members of those who died are no doubt right now seeking legal
counsel to file suit against the deceivers who misled their own
audiences. Sadly, I expect a very large number of independent media
people to be swept up in these lawsuits, with little ability to
afford funding their own legal defense (which can easily run into the
millions in such cases).
These
lawsuits, of course, will drag on for years, causing indy media
outlets to be mired in legal costs and huge disruptions to their
operations. Ultimately, some will simply declare bankruptcy and fold.
That’s
the real-world cost of pushing dangerous disinformation when a very
real global pandemic is killing tens of thousands of people in the
United States alone. Those who abused their positions of influence to
spread disinformation that led to these deaths have put their entire
operations at risk and may soon be facing a tsunami of lawsuits they
cannot possibly survive.
It’s
sad to see, actually, when the
exponential spread of this virus should have been obvious from the
start,
especially if media pundits were as smart as they claim to be.
As
it turns out, it’s not very bright to claim a pandemic is a “hoax”
and watch your own audience members die from complacency. That’s
a suicide
strategy,
not a pro-human strategy. If you get your own audience members
killed, you’re not a very good media pundit. You’re not even a
decent human being. You are a danger to society at large.
Check
out this new infographic we’ve put together called “Divide and
Conquer.” It reveals how both the Left-wing and Right-wing media
are deceiving their audiences and driving the sheeple toward
mandatory vaccines:
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