COVID-19 turning out to be huge hoax perpetrated by media
Media hyped the virus and alarmed Americans to the point of shutting down the economy
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By Joseph Curl - - Tuesday, April 28, 2020
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
When the postmortem is done on the media’s coverage of COVID-19 (and it will be), it will be clear that the virus was no Black Plague — it’s not even the flu on a bad year.
SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has killed 56,749 Americans as of Tuesday.
That’s not good. But it’s not as bad as the 2017-2018 flu season, when 80,000 -plus perished. And it’s a long cry from what all the experts were warning about just a few weeks ago: First, they predicted 1.7 million Americans dead; then they redid the models (this time apparently entering a few more “facts”) and said 100,000-240,000 dead. SEE ALSO: Eighty percent of the population has little or nothing to fear from COVID-19 Now, a major model relied on by the White House …More