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It's humorous to me that you're dismissing this particular criticism of the Western media's "global think" COVID response in the same exact way that the media and the experts have been dismissing criticism for their repeated contradictions and invalid causation resulting from inability to correctly correlate a lot of COVID data. Additionally, this article isn't written to share suggestions. It's to demonstrate that there are more than one way to handle a crisis that nobody knows how to deal with and instead of pointing fingers and blaming we should be looking at data.


> It's to demonstrate that there are more than one way to handle a crisis that nobody knows how to deal with

This the article doesn't succeed in doing. It's so focussed on the rhetorical aspects of rubbing the nose of MSM in the failure of their claims, which in and of itself is OK, that it doesn't invest enough to succeed in its attempts to argue for its claims beyond that. While I narrowly agree with many of the criticisms, I don't think the article justifies any wider conclusions beyond "be skeptical of media narratives". I'm not upvoting this story.


This article is being dismissed because it is not a good-faith question, nor is it being asked out of an honest curiosity.




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