It's not infinitesimal. It's a reflection of the sheer amount of fear mongering the media is doing to instill a sense of dread in people. I did the math in another post about this. There are potentially hundreds of thousands of articles reporting about "new covid cases", just in the USA. And this is only for a 60 day period. Every county is reporting on new cases daily. There are over 3100 counties in the USA. Multiply that by 60 and the numbers add up fast.
My thought experiment is this: If each flu season the media reported new cases by county on a daily basis, how long before every number between 1 and 1000 was filled up?
That's the difference though. We have never in the past focused on daily flu cases, usually reporting is done seasonally, maybe monthly. By focusing on cases each day, the media paints a big, scary picture of a disease that is turning out to be less deadly than originally believed and less deadly than the media originally wanted.
It's not infinitesimal. It's a reflection of the sheer amount of fear mongering the media is doing to instill a sense of dread in people. I did the math in another post about this. There are potentially hundreds of thousands of articles reporting about "new covid cases", just in the USA. And this is only for a 60 day period. Every county is reporting on new cases daily. There are over 3100 counties in the USA. Multiply that by 60 and the numbers add up fast.
My thought experiment is this: If each flu season the media reported new cases by county on a daily basis, how long before every number between 1 and 1000 was filled up?
That's the difference though. We have never in the past focused on daily flu cases, usually reporting is done seasonally, maybe monthly. By focusing on cases each day, the media paints a big, scary picture of a disease that is turning out to be less deadly than originally believed and less deadly than the media originally wanted.
How many newspapers printed corrections throughout the period?