Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low
by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:04PM
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I'm not saying the media is blameless, but this seems like a lot of post-hoc thinking - you're treating the media like they should have known that omicron would exist and so they shouldn't have reported the effectiveness of the vaccines on earlier strains, or reported whatever was the current understood science of the time because things later changed when they didn't know that.
Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low
by antihipocrat on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:19PM
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I suspect that if the implied interpretation of your observations was the majority view it would negatively affect the public's opinion of science and government agencies rather than the media.
Jan-Feb 2020 - Masks don't work! don't worry about covid, get a flu shot!
April 2020 - Covid lives on surfaces for 17 days, disinfect all surfaces, also all masks are effective against covid(even cloth ones!)
Early 2021 - Vaccines(pfizer, moderna) will stop symptomatic covid with +90% effectiveness, also you have to have a vaccine otherwise you will spread covid. to others.
Late 2021 - Oops, cloth masks are not effective against covid(omicron), also vaccines for young children wear off in terms of effectiveness after a few weeks.