How health officials & social media are teaming up to fight the coronavirus 'infodemic'

That's interesting, calling the flood of online information an 'infodemic'. I get how it can be hard to separate out true and false information. I just hope people can try to be objective and not put on ideological blinders on:

 

And, things have gotten exponentially WORSE in the 3 Weeks since that article first appeared.

Ultimately, it is a manifestation of a phenomenon that was first identified years ago:

Study: Trump Supporters More Likely to Share ‘Junk’ News

https://www.thedailybeast.com/study-trump-supporters-more-likely-to-share-junk-news

 

As you cite the left wing, far lefty "source".

 

Dude, get real. Daily Beast? They are more bias than you.

 

Trump is the biggest source of fake news

https://www.smh.com.au/world/africa...s-follow-trump-promotion-20200322-p54co9.html

 

Yep, he calls them out. The left wingers **** when he does.

 

Hmmm

Didn’t read it did you?

 

The media has really done a number on people, with the brainwashing. I have otherwise seemingly reasonable friends on Facebook posting things like "you can't trust the CDC because it's Trump" and then sharing leftwing articles and nutty leftwing sources painting this pandemic as epically worse, etc. WTF people, has partisanship and TDS really rotted some folks brains to this point??

 

Says the person posting the partisan post

Have you READ some of the posts on here???

This has every conspiracy theorist on planet having forty different conniptions

I have been blamed singly and as part of the “democratic collective” as wanting to either panic the population or kill everyone

 

From your perspective you should start by saying Trump can't spell, "chloroquine," much less as Orange Man know anything about it unless someone else told him first.

Wondering about it, after being told about it and given the spelling, and wanting it tested, doesn't make him the biggest source of fake news, those who say it can't work without testing it, are the biggest source of fake news until it is tested.

If someone says it does work, the only real way to fight a lie (if it can't) is to test it.


Zinc, what does that do:

"The NIH notes that children and the elderly with zinc deficiency in the developing world have been shown to be more vulnerable to pneumonia and other infections. The agency reports zinc allows the body to produce and activate T-cells (t-lymphocytes), which are some of the white blood cells that respond to infections."
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=228691

Pay attention to what it says about overdose, otherwise I'll take that in a heartbeat if I feel any freaking symptom.

 

No but touting a drug that has not been through full testing IS irresponsible. There have already been two overdoses as people tried to protect themselves from Covid

This is why such announcements are done with caution

 

Key word is overdose. Did you consider that?

 

A drug already approved, just for something else, they probably know the side effects (unless like Seldane it has what I was told a "flat molecule," which almost killed me, very first time I took it), they should already know if you can take it with or without malaria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroquine#Side_effects

Testing to see if it works for something else with long procedures, but in an emergency, if you can take it anyway, why not?

Touting it may be wrong, but taking it may be a basic human right.

"The interactions result in abnormalities of the electrical impulse that stimulates the heart to contract and pump blood, and the interactions could be life threatening." https://www.medicinenet.com/seldane_removed/views.htm

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/poli...istration-coronavirus-28-dishonest/index.html

Trump has been misleading the American people from the beginning, either deliberately or due to his own ignorance and incompetence, and a failure to listen to his own experts, those that haven't been fired yet for not kissing his ample backside often enough. He isn't just pathetic, he's dangerous to our health and safety.

 

Trump's not a doctor, but compared to these two traitors to the Constitution of the United States he is very best wonderful:

"The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of [those that believe Trump is the final prophet of G-D, and can do no wrong]." (Clinton)

"We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of [those that believe the coronavirus dies with hot weather…]." (Obama)

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of {Trumpism}." (Obamanation logic)

 

If the shoe fits.....

 

The article states, “...The problem is aided by the ease and speed with which false or misleading information can spread on social media...”

That’s not a problem for us Americans. That’s a way of life. We must treat Coronavirus just like we treat social media. Become infected by it, ride out the hysteria of it and then become immune to it. Will some people take it to heart and lungs? Of course. Will some people die over it? Absolutely. But the majority of Americans will see what this info/pan demic really is. A blown up scare tactic that is still the cause of less than 1% of the deaths in the world.

 

A lie can travel halfway around the world while truth is putting it's boots on - attributed to Mark Twain but previous versions exist: