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Mainstream Media Covid Fear Porn is Back

September 9, 2024 7:50 amSeptember 11, 2024 4:00 pm

Mainstream Media content that deliberately and enticingly plays on people’s fears about disaster, disease and death is referred to as “Fear Porn,” according to the Urban Dictionary. Fear porn was used during the Covid pandemic – and it is being...

Mask Mandates Ordered Again in California’s Alternate Universe

November 2, 2023 9:03 amNovember 3, 2023 2:44 pm

Several counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have ordered wearing face masks again, effective Nov. 1. The media thinks it’s cute and less authoritarian of they call it, “masking up.” “Bay Area masking up again as mandates go into...

Cringy CA Dept. of Public Health COVID Ads

March 7, 2023 9:27 amMarch 7, 2023 9:27 am

“Test it. Treat it. You can beat it!” That is the cringy witticism of several California Department of Public Health ads trying to sound hip and cooler-than-cool, as they convince you to test and treat for Covid. The ads are...

Gov. Newsom’s $100 Million COVID Lab Has Trouble Again with ‘Significant Deficiencies’

February 23, 2021 1:19 pmFebruary 25, 2021 9:17 am

In August 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that a “Twindemic” would be upon us soon with COVID and the flu season in the fall, at the same time he announced a new partnership with PerkinElmer, Inc. a diagnostic company, to...

Gov. Newsom Announces ‘Twindemic,’ and Increased COVID Testing into March 2021

August 26, 2020 2:52 pmAugust 28, 2020 12:26 pm

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced a “Twindemic” will be upon us soon with COVID and flu season in the fall, and a new partnership with PerkinElmer, Inc. a diagnostic company, to build a laboratory within the state, and...

Covid Facts, Not Fear, Should Drive California Reopening

June 23, 2020 12:04 pmJune 23, 2020 2:09 pm

In spite of this testing increase, the number of documented new infections nationwide has remained flat. The media is trumpeting recent geographic increases in documented Covid-19 cases to implicitly or explicitly shame states that are reopening their societies. “Record spike...