Fox News Fears Its Early Downplaying of Coronavirus Could Lead to Lawsuits

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  1. Ddyad

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    In fact, the evidence I listed does support an assertion that the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus is a biological weapon created at the lab near the wet market in Wuhan. Lets add some more evidence.

    Evidence of that the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus is a biological weapon created CCP and its military :

    1. The Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus first appeared near a biological weapons lab in Wuhan.
    2. Chinese agents deliberately spread the virus around the world
    3. The CCP sent out ineffective testing kits and masks to cripple the response
    4. CCP state media admitted that the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus a biological weapon.
     
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    Are you effing serious?

    Geezus, the C19 is revealing a lot these days.
     
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    You are talking about H1N1 or Covid?
     
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    #2 and #4 are definitely false.
     
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    H1N1. Deaths ~ 4000. Hospitalized estimate mid range ~ 100,000.
     
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    That's a lie and you know it. The Chinese wetmarkets gave us SARS and now SARS-COV-2. As much as the CCP owns the Democrats in the United States, it cannot exclude itself from the responsibility it holds.

    Now, as far as the legality of a wrongful death suit, the issue that any plantiff has is that it would have to show that save for Fox News's reporting, that the individuals wouldn't have gone out. Yet, there have been reports that elderly people, regardless of any reporting and understanding the risks wanted to go out and about.

    Thus, it'll be impossible to single out Fox for any deaths.
     
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    Oh yeah, that's why they fired Reagan. But it's too late. They have surely already killed people. And the families are going to be coming with their lawyers.

    Their years of bs and lies have finally caught up to them. I expect the class action lawsuits to reach into the $billions.

    Watch Limbaugh go down in flames as well. Of course he's as good as dead already. But at least he will be remembered for killing people not for trump's outrageous award.
     
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    Only Democrats would blame other Americans, instead of the Chinese enemy that poisoned the world, and hasn't even issued so much as an official apology for SARS-COV-2.
     
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    Yes, exactly! So why do Trumpers listen to him?
     
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    I would say only partisan hacks or Chinese waterboys would blame other Americans.
     
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    I listen to Trump's political views and decide if they coincide with mine or not. I do not listen to him as though he were a medical expert.(Plus, there were at the time and even more now, independent results from the medications in question that proved their effectiveness in TREATING it. No one ever used cure, that was what we intellectually call a strawman's argument. You'd never thought Progressives would go that low, but they hate Orange Man Bad.)

    It used to be progressives called themselves intellectuals, that they were on the "right side of history". Whatever happened to that?

    Suing Fox News accomplishes nothing(except wasted lawyer fees). There is only one culpable party. And we KNOW they're culpable because the wetmarkets were fingered the first time, they suspended them and then with NO reason or logic whatsoever they reopened them.

    If you do something WILLFULLY, you are GUILTY. If the Chinese government is unwilling or unable to accept culpability then the international community must enforce it.
     
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    Evidence of that the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus is a biological weapon created CCP and its military :

    1. The Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus first appeared near a biological weapons lab in Wuhan.

    2. Chinese agents deliberately spread the virus around the world


    3. The CCP sent out ineffective testing kits and masks to cripple the response

    4. CCP state media admitted that the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus a biological weapon.
    In fact, the CCP has publicly stated that this virus is a bio-weapon created and used by the US Army.
     
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    Trump was referencing the promising results obtained from medical professionals. Jay Forman, Jim Santilli, Rio Giardinieri, and many others are alive today due to hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
     
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    We can't control what the Chinese do.

    Besides, they're counting their dead, too.

    Here, one fact remains: Trump failed in his responsibility to protect and inform citizens of the risks of this pandemic.

    While other countries closed their borders and massively mobilized their forces to fight the virus, Trump bragged in his rallies or with Sean Hannity.

    The time for accountability for this clown will come, sooner or later.
     
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    You can be found GUILTY, regardless if it was willful or not.

    We as the consumer expect a lot, and when that trust is broken on such an issue of life or death, you can rest assured there will be lawyers in the wings. Whether you like it or not, lawsuits are the bastion of last resort, and Fox is about to get its comeuppance.
     
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    Given our resistance to these measures now as profoundly anti-American to our culture, there's no way(whether it would have clearly been better or not) we would have accepted them at a time of few cases. Trump's attempts to reassure us was poor, but it came from a good place.

    They may be counting their dead, but it's a small solace to the fact that they've killed thousands across the world. Literally....thousands.

    Don't pretend that it's only US Nationalists who are going to be upset with the lack of response from China. This will be a point of INTL discussion most likely.
     
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    You *can* sue, but you're not going to win. You cannot exclude any other reasons for the victims to have ventured out. You'd have to literally find maybe a text or a recording that said "Fox news said it's a political scam, and I believe fox news.". The odds of finding said text as the sole only reason are slim to none.
     
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    But you just admitted, he is a non-expert. Why even mention the name of the drugs, which he struggled so hard to pronounce? He could have just referred to the professionals, but what you keep trying to cover is the reason he mentioned it to begin with, which is to sound "smart". His ego and vanity is what is on constant display and Trumpers are perfectly fine with that, even when it kills them!

    If this isn't a clear cut example of cognitive dissonance, I don't know what is.
     
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    Are you trying to tell me that Americans are stupider than all the other people in the West?

    No, that argument doesn't hold water.

    A responsible President would have held press briefings from the beginning to prepare public opinion for what was coming.

    It is by repeating the message several times that one raises public awareness.
     
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    It would have been better if reports had said: "EARLY Symptoms are flu-like, however later on in the illness the virus attacks the lung system causing pneumonia, among other respiratory failures." But what I can assure you is that kind of reporting not only wasn't on Fox, it wasn't anywhere else for WEEKS.

    And no, not because Trump didn't say it. WHO/CDC had the information, but for political conveniences we only pay attention to them if we can discern or create a 'discrepency' with orange man bad.
     
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    You don't even know a lawyer, do you?
     
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    It's not about being "stupider" oh wise one. It's about values, which you can't logically throw away on a whim based on an emergency. For MANY of the ill who contracted the virus. Those who went to business meetings, those who went to sporting events. No, they did not do so because of what Trish Regan said, and there's little to no odds for a court victory. Companies always try to cut liabilities all the time, but even the meat and bones of what Trish said isn't even close to "go outside, you can't catch the virus."

    They did so, for the same reasons we had the argument about restarting the economy now: Like Trump said, we're not made to be in our homes 24 X 7. We didn't fight the Soviets to adapt a Soviet style of living. Public emergencies can only go "so far".
     
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    Fox said it was okay. Grandpa went to the birthday party for junior because Fox said it was okay. He caught the virus from someone at the party and died. Fox killed Grandpa!

    Honestly, we all knew it had to end with the rw media killing people. How else could it have ended? You can't spew lies for years and expect to never pay for that. Unfortunately some of their listeners are going to pay for their crackpottery with their lives.
     
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    I wonder if Trish Regan can sue Fox News for wrongful dismissal.
     
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