Florida Is A Case Study In Media-Induced COVID-19 Panic

1. The press was claiming that 2,013 had died in July, the actual number of known deaths was 1,847.
2. Then there's the fact that Florida's death count is almost certainly inflated because the state is counting people who died with the virus, not just those who died because of it.
3. In fact, as of Sunday, the biggest one-day death toll so far in the state happened back on July 16, when 114 are known to have died.
4. All of these scary headlines are based on the number of deaths reported by the state on any given day.
5. The blue bars are the number of deaths reported in four days last week.
6. But it's crucial because the press is using the timing of Florida's death reports to whip up a frenzy about COVID-19 running riot in the state.
7. Of the more than 5,000 coronavirus deaths in Florida, 45% of them involved residents and staff at long-term care facilities.
8. While 173 deaths reported in a single day sounds like a lot, it pales in comparison to the peak reached in New York and New Jersey earlier this spring.
9. While deaths attributed to coronavirus have increased, the surge is a fiction because many of those deaths happened earlier.
10. As we noted in this space last week, this distortion is being repeated by the media in state after state that has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases.
11. In a recent story, it noted — after shouting about hitting a new record for daily deaths — that the 173 deaths.
12. That's three times the current record set in Florida — in a state that has 59% fewer residents.
13. The question that deserves to be answered is why the mainstream press seems so willing and eager to whip up fear, rather than provide all the relevant facts, in context, so the public can make its own informed decisions about how to respond to this disease.
14. I consider the current reporting on Covid testing a sham! I live in a state where a lot of this phony reporting is going on, and it is terrifying people.
15. It is not true that 173 people died from COVID-19 in a day in Florida.
16. In both cases they were in an auto accident, but only the heart attack victim possibly died BECAUSE of his heart attack! The covid carrier died because of the auto accident and not because of covid.

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