{"id":48931,"date":"2021-04-01T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48931"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:36:05","slug":"fox-news-spreads-covid-variant-disinformation-downplays-risks-and-imperils-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48931","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Spreads COVID Variant Disinformation, Downplays Risks, and Imperils Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News is apparently not satisfied with a mere 550,000 American deaths due to the coronavirus. They are making it their mission to maximize the suffering and loss, even as hope for a return to normalcy arises with the efficient administration of vaccines by Joe Biden’s COVID Response Team. There’s a reason why studies show that watching Fox News increases coronavirus fatalities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Fox News, however, is obsessed with petty, egocentric matters of blame and\/or credit. And naturally all of the blame is heaped on President Biden, while all of the credit goes to the former guy (Donald Trump). If Trump wants the credit for this horror, he can have it. In fact, he just inadvertently admitted that he’s guilty of hundreds of thousands of cases of negligent homicide<\/a><\/strong>. And he continues to foster policies and behavior that exacerbate the crisis.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump’s PR Division and Family Jobs Program<\/a><\/strong> (aka Fox News) is similarly putting the lives of Americans at risk. The latest example of this aired Wednesday evening when Laura Ingraham anchored a segment devoted to disinformation about vaccines and new COVID variants (video below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She began by making the preposterous assertion that Trump “burnished”<\/em> the reputation of already respected medical experts like Dr., Fauci by putting them on his phony Coronavirus Task Force<\/a><\/strong>. She then accuses them of stabbing him in the back. So once again, Trump is the victim, poor baby.<\/p>\n

Ingraham then says that the experts are now “blaming Trump for their own failures,”<\/em> despite the fact that Trump himself said that he “almost always overturned”<\/em> their \u201cfaulty recommendations.\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Therefore, Trump is conceding that the tragic results that took the lives of more half a million Americans are wholly his responsibility.<\/p>\n

So Ingraham turns to the thoroughly discredited “doctor”<\/em> Scott Atlas, who almost all legitimate experts in infectious diseases repudiate as a kook. Atlas whines incoherently that “the people who criticize the policies that were implemented are responsible for the failures of the policies that were implemented.”<\/em> Who the heck is he talking about? If Trump is the critic in that blather, then Atlas is claiming that Trump is criticizing his own policies and is blaming himself for their failure. That, of course, is nonsense. But if Fauci et al are the critics, then Atlas is claiming that they are blaming themselves for the failures of Trump’s policies.<\/p>\n

Don’t hurt yourself trying to make sense of any of that unintelligible bullpucky. Ingraham goes on to malign the experts for being justifiably concerned about the emergence of more transmissible and deadlier variants. She mockingly rants that…<\/p>\n

“The experts’ disinformation campaign is ongoing about COVID, even after vaccines. The variants! The variants are coming! The mutations! Gloom and doom!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ingraham (and Fox News and Trump and the right-wing GOP, QAnon, head-in-the-sand crowd) did last year when COVID was spreading uncontrollably, is again downplaying the fatal perils that this virus still poses. She sought to make her point by playing a video of the Director of the National Institutes of Health warning of variants more dangerous than the those already circulating, like the one from South Africa. Her on-screen graphics called his remarks “fearmongering.”<\/em> But then she backed up her argument with a report about the vaccine’s efficacy with variants that only addressed those currently known. Which ignores entirely what the NIH Director had just said about new, unknown variants.<\/p>\n

Ingraham closed by saying that her reason for doing this report was “to insure that this crowd is never taken seriously again.”<\/em> In other words, ignore the people who know the most and have your best interests at heart. And once again her on-screen graphics told the story making the ludicrous claim that she was exposing the lies of the Media-Medical Cartel,”<\/em> whatever the heck that is.<\/p>\n

The entire segment featured a logo graphic that blared her campaign theme of “Shutting Down the COVID Crazies,”<\/em> meaning Fauci, Biden et al. But what she – and Fox News – are shutting down are the lives of the people foolish enough to give credence to her dishonest and dangerous disinformation, along with all those unfortunate enough to encounter them.<\/p>\n

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