{"id":50978,"date":"2021-10-18T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50978"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:18:56","slug":"fox-news-exploits-colin-powells-death-to-fear-monger-about-breakthrough-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50978","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Exploits Colin Powell’s Death to Fear Monger About Breakthrough COVID Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s most notoriously pro-COVID cable “news”<\/em> network, Fox News, is demonstrating just how grossly callous they can be in pursuit of their reprehensible political agenda. There’s a reason that the current state of the coronavirus in the United States can be accurately called the Fox News Pandemic<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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On Monday morning it was announced that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had died. The cause of death was revealed by his family as complications from COVID-19. Sec. Powell is now another tragic statistic of a viral plague that has resulted in more than 700,000 deaths and brought grief to millions of American families.<\/p>\n

So leave it to Fox News to leap on this announcement in a way that manipulates it in order to bleed some smarmy partisan gain out of it. On Monday’s episode of Fox and Friends, the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes couldn’t let this personal misfortune go by without profiting from it politically. Co-host Will Cain offered a perverse eulogy that furthered Fox’s mission to increase the death toll from COVID (video below)<\/em>. After reporting Powell’s demise, Cain said that…<\/p>\n

“There will also be conversations about the fact that he was fully vaccinated according to his family and he died from complications from COVID. We are beginning to see statistics like this grow in frequency. We know that the vaccine does wane over time and its ability to protect you from, not just transmission and infection, but from severe complications and hospitalization, and obviously death as well.” [adding that] “all of us are at potential risk.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside from being profoundly disrespectful to the passing of Powell, this is nothing but pure scare tactics to create more of the doubt and hesitancy about vaccines that Fox News has been disseminating since they became available. It is servile conformity to Donald Trump’s anti-vax alt-facts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Fox News is lying that “statistics like this grow in frequency.”<\/em> The truth is that deaths from breakthrough cases are extremely rare<\/a><\/strong>. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there have been about 7,000 such fatalities out of more than 187 million vaccinated Americans. That’s about 0.0037%. Not exactly a threat that suggests that “all of us are at potential risk.”<\/em> To the contrary, it underscores how effective the vaccines are.<\/p>\n

Fox also failed to mention that Powell, who was 85 years old, was also diagnosed previously with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that weakens the body\u2019s ability to protect against infections. These are conditions that put him at greater risk. But Cain wasn’t finished with his dishonest fear mongering. He continued with what he falsely said were “the implications on everyday Americans…”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The family has made a point on their post on Facebook this morning that Colin Powell was fully vaccinated. And as Americans out there wonder what lies ahead for them and they search and they need truth moving forward, we’re seeing data from across the world. We’re seeing data from Europe, from the United Kingdom, the fully-vaccinated people are being hospitalized and fully-vaccinated are dying from COVID. And here we have a very high-profile example that is going to require more truth, more truth from our government, from our health leaders as well.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once again, Cain is repeating the deceitful implication that “fully-vaccinated people are dying”<\/em> in order to frighten Fox’s already panicky viewers. He also baselessly implies that government and healthcare leaders are being insufficiently truthful. And he goes even further to criticize rational measures to mitigate the pandemic, including mandates for vaccination such as the one that is place at Fox News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Fox News couldn’t wait even a single day before launching this political exploitation of Powell’s death. They are single-mindedly focused on telling tales of terror to keep their audience shivering and glued to their rancid rhetoric. Consequently, they weren’t about to miss out on this fleeting opportunity to stir dread and doubt among their dimwitted devotees.<\/p>\n

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Fox continues to use Powell's death to undermine vaccines, refusing to mention that you are significantly less likely to get seriously ill or die if you're vaccinated. <\/p>\n

Instead, they suggest the government is lying about vaccine effectiveness pic.twitter.com\/rtMrrO6oab<\/a><\/p>\n

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n