I mean, your instinct is probably to answer “of course they are!” But there is misleading and then there’s MISLEADING. And in the second misleading, I’m talking about downright, outright, deliberately stating things in a way specifically to make it seem like you are saying ONE thing when actually you’re avoiding saying that ONE THING.
You know, it’s misleading to say that “most people hated that song” if only 51% of people hated that song. It’s sort of true but you’re leading people to believe it’s a bigger number.
But it’s MISLEADING to report “Hospital beds are filling up as Covid cases increase in Texas”, when your article is about how multiple factors are contributing to a bed shortage. You are deliberately giving the ILLUSION that you’ve said Covid cases are filling up the beds. But you actually aren’t saying that. You just want people to THINK you said it and not check further.
It was misleading of Anthony Fauci to say “masks are the most effective barrier to infection” when what he MEANT was “don’t buy too many masks we want them for other stuff.” (By the way, it’s quite an accomplishment on Fauci’s part that he was for AND against masks and was lying about their effectiveness in BOTH cases.)
Anyway, here’s what brought this up.
I have talked to many PICU nurses & pediatricians in Texas & across the country. The kids’ hospitals are mostly filled with RSV. Hospitals are very short-staffed. Everyone is tested for COVID & goes to COVID unit even if they’re asymptomatic & there for something else.
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) August 14, 2021
Was just talking about this today with a Texas nurse…. The pediatric beds are mostly full of RSV patients, but here’s almost every headline: “Pediatric ICU Beds at Capacity as COVID Cases Increase”
— Amanda House (@AmandaLeeHouse) August 15, 2021
Those anecdotal tweets are interesting and telling. This is even more so:
Labeling RSV hospitalizations as pediatric covid is damming disingenuous propaganda.
Labeling all hospitalizations that test positive for covid, regardless of what they are hospitalized for, as a covid hospitalization, is deceptive manipulative bullshit & it needs to stop now.
— Show Me The Data (@txsalth2o) August 7, 2021
This is damning:
There is an immunity debt that demands to be paid.
Journalists and physicians were honest about the RSV crisis coming our until mid-July, when they realized they could rebrand it as Delta. https://t.co/rPBJwmDj2X
— Show Me The Data (@txsalth2o) August 8, 2021
New Zelandhttps://t.co/UicBS51yr5
— Show Me The Data (@txsalth2o) August 8, 2021
And this on CDC is devastating.
Before the CDC realized they could cry Delta- they cried RSV https://t.co/qb6jKaEVgq
— Show Me The Data (@txsalth2o) August 8, 2021
Either way, the triumphalism on kids getting sick in Florida and Texas and any other place they can pretend to care about if it hurts the governors is sickening.
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