Why cant the media report the truth

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  1. SkullKrusher

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    Hey, if you can get N. Korea commie to laugh, you will have learned
     
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    And why do I feel that your avatar is an actual picture of you?
     
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    Well I didn't say your pic looked like you, then again I don't know how you fix up when you go down town.. As for my avatar. That's just a fictitious picture, and anyone with half a brain knows cats are not keyboard friendly ¯\_(º¸º)_/¯
     
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    Which would explain most of your content on here.
     
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    Yup then again, you exhibit some odd realities your self Lucifer :twisted:

    :wierdface::shock:
     
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    Think about this logically for a minute. Who owns the media? Mega corporations. Now are the corporations benefiting, or being harmed by people staying home and not shopping? They are losing money by the ton daily. So exactly what are the Corporations who own the media gaining by trying to exaggerate the seriousness of this pandemic? Nothing, they are losing, big time.
    The fact is, the problems we are facing is all coming from people who are underestimating the seriousness of this problem. People who are allowing greed for money to come before the common sense of realizing how serious this thing could become. And I am not just talking about the people who will get sick and die, I am talking about what happens when this thing starts to get big enough to cause the breakdown of society. When people panic for real, and begin looting instead of hoarding. When they realize government has lost control, and it is everyone for themselves? We are already seeing this begin to happen in other countries, and it could happen here if things were allowed to get bad enough.
     
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    We need action not Marshal Law

    Generals know how to get things done involving Lots of people.

    Trump just has briefings where he muses different approaches to the problem

    If 90 days ago Trump developed a plan and executed it then the USA wouldn't be in the dire straits we are now in
     
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    LOL :) You certainly haven't thought this thru.

    The military generally assist the CDC in cutting off travel and enforcing marshal law.. Damn bro :wierdface::shock:
     
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    The question is.. Once they are considered cured are they then removed from the total cases infected?
     
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    Except we don't and almost certainly won't. Asymptomatic cases aren't being detected
    at all. Why would you get tested if you have no symptoms? Want to test everyone? Fine how long do you think it will take mfg over 330 million test kits? And that isn't even taking into account the fact that a hell of a lot of people will tell you to eff off.
     
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    Or------------------they could be dead accurate if they reported how many have the virus in a city NOW, and how many have recovered.
     
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    No, because they were infected. Why do you want to pretend people infected by the virus were never infected?
    Is that done with the total flu cases each year? Do we only count those who died or do we count everyone who was infected with the flu regardless of outcome?
     
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    Umm... the “recovered cases” are reported everyday in the numbers. As of yesterday that number was running around 3% of total cases in the U.S.

    The OP should be changed to, ‘Why is the Media reporting the numbers’.

    That title would be more to the point, as in, why doesn’t the media function as a propaganda wing of our government?
     
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    Any site I’ve looked at includes total cases, recovered, and deaths. Is simple math so hard?
     
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    And thats misleading! Asking folks to "Subtract" is not only misleading, but stupid too..
     
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    Really? Whaaa! Math is hards ... can't do!
    Since most articles include the number of infected, AND the number dead - how hard can it be?
     
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    Huh? Who is asking folks to subtract?
     
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    Well it must be hard if the total cant reflect active and the total of infected slow, stabilizes or GOD forbid goes down :wierdface:
     
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    Think about it ;) But I see your point, the doom and gloomers enjoy the tot infected number to rise even though there is a number of survived that could be subtracted from the total infected.. Much more scary that way ;)
     
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    There is a second number, the number of recoveries. Subtract that from the total cases and you get active cases + deaths. From there subtract the deaths and you get the active cases.

    But they cannot put something like that on TV. It's too complicated for a largely uneducated, dumbed down public.

    The biggies are deaths and total cases. That should be enough to change people's behavior with both going up rapidly.
     
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    But those people were still infected so why would they be subtracted from the total number of those who have been infected? If 1,000 people were infected by something and all 1,000 survived does that mean no one was ever infected by that something?
     
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    If they are cleared to return to society I tend to believe they are considered a non risk.. Or are you saying those that survive can never be in public again :wierdface:

    Its pretty simply ECA, well all things considered anyway.. If 20 people contract the virus and 10 recover, you tell me what the current total of infected is.. And I'm easy, you may mull this over with Daniel the math expert if need be!
     
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    I can only wish corona was like that at 100% recovery. The Wuhan thing would have never even made the news. If it ain't bad news it ain't news.
     
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    Now you're moving the goalposts. First it was about "doom and gloom" numbers now you're taking about some notion that people who no longer have the virus can never be in public again? Are people who have recovered being ordered by law to never be in public again?
    For what you are NOW saying, in your example, current total of infected would be 10. But what I was arguing against is subtracting the number of recovered from the total infected number. There is a difference between overall total infected versus current total infected.

     
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    The media reports what it is told to report. Operation Mockingbird was very successful.

    The media is allergic to the truth on many issues and has been for decades at least. Walter Cronkite and Edward Murrow are long dead and gone. Media integrity died with them.
     
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