So why did so many American mainstream
media outlets IGNORE a reputable university's
study that lockdowns didn't work? New
York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC
and CBS all failed to run the story because
they 'have their own narrative written'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Melissa Koenig. *
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/3/2022 11:56:42 PM
Mainstream liberal news has largely ignored a new study showing that COVID lockdowns had virtually no effect on stopping COVID-19—because they 'already have their own narrative written', according to the study's author. A review by three respected economists from Johns Hopkins University, Lund University in Sweden and the Danish think-tank the Center for Political Studies, found that restrictions imposed in the spring of 2020—including stay-at-home orders, masks mandates and social distancing—only reduced COVID mortality by 0.2 percent.(Snip)But the study was largely ignored by mainstream American media outlets, with just DailyMail.com, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and the Washington Times publicizing it.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 2/4/2022 12:28:45 AM (No. 1060786)
It's very simple it's because they are NOT "media outlets", they are propaganda outlets.
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Easy answer. They were in cahoots with Fauci, Gates, FDA, CDC, etc. Same people who shut everything down but the narrative.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/4/2022 1:04:05 AM (No. 1060804)
The WHO, CDC, Fauci and democrats all look really stupid for shutting down the country. Can't have that. People with common sense always know better than the elite over-educated idiots who think they know better.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/4/2022 3:23:11 AM (No. 1060869)
They were all too busy having sex with each other in the back room.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/4/2022 4:51:09 AM (No. 1060890)
Always remember this one truth. The drive-by propaganda media's job is to always cover up the truth.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/4/2022 5:19:16 AM (No. 1060914)
All the foregoing comments have great merit; let me add: Is there anything left that can be called a "Reputable" University?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
IowaDad 2/4/2022 6:10:32 AM (No. 1060932)
The study is here.
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 2/4/2022 6:46:10 AM (No. 1060942)
As DJT stated, "The media is truly the enemy of the people.
Defund the Luciferian media.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
raspberry 2/4/2022 7:22:27 AM (No. 1060959)
Democrats must maintain this covid crisis to steal the next election as they did the last. The propaganda media support election fraud.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Adam 2/4/2022 7:32:22 AM (No. 1060963)
I guess Johns Hopkins is “fringe.” s/o
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
homefry 2/4/2022 7:45:20 AM (No. 1060978)
Because they are in reality the P.R. branch of the dim-0 party. The MSDNC.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/4/2022 8:11:42 AM (No. 1061009)
Why? That’s what you call a stupid question.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chillijilli 2/4/2022 8:14:20 AM (No. 1061016)
The media control the news by simply NOT REPORTING stories that don't fit their agenda. How does the public know about something they aren't told about? The MSM is very careful with their facts about what they DO report...but they have a great game going because they know they can't be litigated for something they DIDN'T SAY. So we receive controlled, distorted, and biased news and we can prove it is intentionally done that way. All media sources have access to BOTH sides; the whole story is out there. So the MSM cherry-pickers who decide what stories to release to the public are INTENTIONALLY withholding news they don't want you to hear---news that doesn't fit their agenda. This is not some spontaneous random frivolous mistake. It is deliberately and willfully done. There is no other explanation.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/4/2022 8:26:50 AM (No. 1061032)
"So why did so many American mainstream media outlets IGNORE a reputable university's study that lockdowns didn't work? New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC and CBS all failed to run the story because they 'have their own narrative written'??? simple answer: CCP
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/4/2022 8:27:23 AM (No. 1061034)
Those of us who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain clearly recognize the Media Curtain here in the West. New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, and CBS are the Pravda/Izvestia of the United States.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
msjena 2/4/2022 8:32:29 AM (No. 1061038)
The lockdown was supposed to last two weeks to try to relieve the stress on hospitals. in the meantime, we had hospital ships and convention centers converted into hospitals. There was more than enough capacity to treat the sick after the two weeks. But thanks to Fauci and Trump-hating Democrats, attempts to lift the lockdown failed. Also, Biden's strategy has failed because it is focused entirely on attempts to bring down the number of cases and not at all on treatments. Shouldn't preventing deaths be the number one priority? Monoclonal antibodies should have been made widely available and other treatments, like Ivermectin, should not have been summarily dismissed. Even now, there is reportedly a pill developed by Big Pharma that works, but we hear nothing about it. Only vaccines, which are only partially effective and mask, which are not effective at all. The early deaths from this pandemic could not have been avoided. Now, a year later, we should be outraged from so many deaths from this treatable illness.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
walcb 2/4/2022 8:33:45 AM (No. 1061041)
I don't doubt the overall conclusion of the report but the way they handled the New Zealand and Australia numbers will result in the report being picked apart.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JackBurton 2/4/2022 8:43:18 AM (No. 1061048)
Who says lockdowns don't work?
They used them to destroy the economy, wreck election laws, and remove Trump. So.... they won, right?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trapper 2/4/2022 8:45:50 AM (No. 1061052)
Reporting news and teaching history are both suffering from the same fatal illness: fabrication fever. So-called "historians" abandon facts and history to write their own fairy tale histories. The whole 1619 fabrication is the perfect example to study for an understanding of it. Create a narrative, and then just make up "facts" that fit.
As for news reporting .... well .... Biden won the election (NOT). When the election results are trending the wrong way, just shut it down for a few hours and PRESTO narrative restored.
Trump won.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
aripeny 2/4/2022 9:04:48 AM (No. 1061079)
The swamp is dark & deep.
FJB
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 2/4/2022 9:22:55 AM (No. 1061099)
Journalists? Besides the fact that grammar, punctuation, spelling, and original thought is not applied, from what I read not a single one of these “paid professionals” have the ability to write true news, facts with appropriate verbs and adjectives, sans opinion. Most articles in papers are straight propaganda praising the emperors parade in his new clothes. Cue Chrissy Wallace and his leg tingles. Thus the vast rise in podcasts which there are so many Limbaugh wannabes pimping for likes. Good thing I don’t mind looking through multiple sources to find the truth.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LLAMA 2/4/2022 9:38:54 AM (No. 1061127)
To top off this off, Johns Hopkins themselves didn't formally issue a report on the study. Guess they fear losing federal grants if they disturb the governments "narrative."
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
frew 2/4/2022 9:44:52 AM (No. 1061137)
The major media didn't report that the study said that lockdowns don't work because that's not really what the study said. It said that in America the lockdowns were so poorly done that it was pointless to do them and they just resulted in people losing their businesses and jobs for no reason. Locking down while still allowing people to go to the grocery store defeats the whole purpose of the lockdown. We might as well not lock down if we do the lockdown that way.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/4/2022 10:41:04 AM (No. 1061232)
China put in a call to the media moguls...don't cover the story...and the good little commies followed their chi/com leaders...thank God for Newsmax and Breitbart...they cover the real news...not a designed narrative that China dictates...and how's the Olympics doing...the rating are not very good...I feel sorry for our athletes that must wear geer that was manufactured in china..and subject themselves to DNA scrutiny and medical intrusion into their bodies...what will china send back to US through these athletes...MMMM?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Chicagoan 2/4/2022 10:42:41 AM (No. 1061234)
Read Robert F Kennedy Jr's "The Real Anthony Fauci." He brought all this about to serve his own interests, power, and money.
As for the Left Dims, they want control. Even now, they're indoctrinating the children. Have to acknowledge infecting the universities, government, and now the grade schools is changing the way Americans "think" over the last century.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/4/2022 10:55:52 AM (No. 1061261)
We need a total Lockdown on ALL Democrap Politicians...Locked down in the basement with Rattle Snakes!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/4/2022 11:08:04 AM (No. 1061297)
Two reasons.
- If not reported, it never happened. The swamp only gets their "news/facts" from the Mainstream so if not covered they can all remain ignorant with a straight face.
- Next time they feel the need to lock us down and historians are writing about this they can't have any study like this to be searchable in the NYTs.
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