[JoMar]

Originally Posted by dhdallas

"Misinformation is just as dangerous as the disease is right now," says Erie News Now Contributor, Dr. Becky Dawson. "I think we are spreading misinformation as quickly as we are spreading the disease." News outlets thrive on stories of death & violence. "If it bleeds, it leads" is the age old axiom.

Most deaths occur when the patient has comorbid factors involved, i.e. one foot in the grave already! Hospitals are reimbursed at a much higher rate if COVID is listed as the cause of death. I am a retired RN and Paramedic who worked during both the onset of AIDS and H1N1 epidemics and never saw the level of fear and misleading information as I have seen with COVID.

I have had both H1N1 & COVID. The H1N1 was much worse and was every bit as bad as when I had pneumonia on two separate occasions in the past. My COVID was similar to the flu: chills & fever, coughing, congestion and general malaise. I am not downplaying that COVID is serious. It can be deadly for those with preexisting illnesses. For the rest of us, it is an inconvenience!

The stress, anxiety, loneliness & loss of income caused by the fear of COVID is far more damaging than the virus itself.

In a letter to to John Norvell, 14 June 1807, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time..."

The deception continues and we, like sheep, are willing participants.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow.

Do you now feel better that you also contributed to the misinformation trail?