And a dumb one on here who is hopeful.
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As a dummy who has a good habit of making friends with people, I have a LOT of confidence in my source. Heās super smart.
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So I talked today with a doctor friend of mine whoās in the front lines dealing with Covid-19 patients.
Thanks to a relative dearth of cases here, she was able to dedicate more time to analyzing the symptoms of both hospitalized and ICU patients as well as ācuredā ones.
Based on the conversation with her it seems that nobody has any idea what are the long term effects of the infection - some ācuredā patients exhibit inexplicably low levels of blood oxygen, thereās speculation that the virus may cause neurological damage (receptors something something, Iām horrible at biology) and itās still unclear what happens to the cardiovascular system and the lungs in the long run.
Scary stuff.
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Just sent a chill down my spine dude.
Fwiw, that is from over two weeks ago. And itās pretty easy to see how a low level staffer tasked with putting together footage mislabeled footage, or misunderstood the segment.
News media makes mistakes. They report on news 7/365. Mistakes WILL be made. Thatās why newspapers have an entire page dedicated to correcting details.
WHOA! Back it up a little, @Californiagrownā¦
FOX doesnātā¦
Both sides are too quick to jump on honest mistakes as indicators of extreme incompetence or evil intentions, IMO.
EVERYONE makes mistakes. The good ones rarely make mistakes. And the ones with character own their mistakes, learn from them and donāt make them again. People misspeak, or misshear all the time.
That said, mistakes canāt be a pattern or consistently made from negligence. Thatās called incompetence and gets you fired.
Agree, @Californiagrown ā¦and the ICU footage is a case in point.
Both New York and Italy have overflowing ICUās that are stretched to capacity, with most all patients on Ventilators. It is doubtful that the footage either took away from the story OR more importantly conveyed something that wasnāt true.
Yet there is itā¦āGOTCHA! FAKE NEWS!!!āā¦that the Twitter-in-Chief is more than happy to exploit (except when it comes to FOX).
Seems like a pretty glaring mistake to use footage from another country during your report on New York Cityā¦ Mistake happen, sure. We might want to double-check our work during a time where people are this scared as to not add to the panic.
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Idk. A low level staffer sorting through and grabbing stock footage clips of an overcrowded hospital off the server for a segmentā¦ I can see the mistake. Hell, could have just been a file/folder naming error.
Regardless, I guess I just donāt see how that mistake altered or changed the story CBS was reporting on. Were the Italian clips much more gruesome or inflammatory than the NYC clips used in the same segment or something?
Itās just another example of how the media is more concerned about getting clicks at the expense of accuracy.
Hell, NY hospitals may have been even worse so by using footage of Italy they may have inadvertently downplayed the severity of NYs situation. Or they could have used footage from a hospital with almost no cases and downplayed the situation. Accuracy, especially now, is pretty important imo.
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Not disagreeing, accuracy is VERY important right now. But, Iāll say this: they already bust ass trying to be accurate. The only way for them to be more accurate is to take more time vetting everythingā¦ Unfortunately, their timelines to produce the news havent changed. I think they have a very difficult job, and I think they do it well. This was a small, apparently inconsequential mistake by all accounts and the public was not lead astray by the mistake.
I love a good old Fox news chart.
The numbers might have been correct, but the bars are just a bit misleading.
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Was that actually used by Fox News or Whitehouse.gov?
Itās a satirical chart/political cartoon.
I sure hope not. Just a joke.