Media Disinformation Causing Massive Public Misperception Of Covid Pandemic

Covid-19 Disinformation

This article explains why your friend or neighbor is terrified of Covid-19 and will not listen to any facts contrary to their understanding. These two articles do a nice job of outlining the information. The public is being psyopped into panic and hysteria. While they are under the control of fear, they will not listen to your facts and reasoned arguments. This is why the media are keeping the fear going.

This is from the Franklin Templeton–Gallup Economics of Recovery Study, including people’s perceptions on Covid-19. The misperceptions are shocking.

1. Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts—to a shocking extent;
   
   
2. The misperception is greater for those who identify as Democrats, and for those who rely more on social media for information; partisanship and misinformation, to misquote Thomas Dolby, are blinding us from science; and
   
   
3. We find a sizable “safety premium” that could become a significant driver of inflation as the recovery gets underway.
   

More on this here.

"How damaging has the faux hysteria emanating from the media over the coronavirus been? If a new poll from Franklin-Templeton Gallup is an indication, the result has been making most of the country completely ignorant of the scientific facts regarding the current pandemic. Not coincidently, the false perceptions that now abound just so happen to play right into left-wing desires, like perpetual lockdowns and keeping schools closed."

"The biggest eye-opener is how completely vapid Americans are when it comes to knowing the risks related to COVID. Americans actually believe that those 44 and younger make up 30% of COVID deaths. In reality, if you are under 45, you are more likely to die from the flu because the death rate is so low." 

"What that all adds up to is an ignorant public that doesn’t know how to mitigate properly. We are currently fighting over schools when it’s nursing homes that are actually at risk. This is the danger of media misinformation on display. While it may seem like harmless partisanship at times, the lies and false panic spewed by places like CNN and MSNBC have real-world consequences."

Redstate story here.