04-11-2020, 08:11 AM
(04-07-2020, 09:23 PM)Taem Wrote: Wow, we have had the news on in the background all day at work every day since this pandemic began alternating between Fox News and CNN and I've never heard this mentioned before, not even once! Why are Americans getting censored news?
News stations are owned by certain people with certain interests. It is clear that the lockdown hits certain groups much harder. It is clear that governments (the US one is a good example) made lots of mistakes like cutting drastically the funding for the organisations that need to protect the country against pandemics.
In europe you see the same: the south of Europe is coercing the north in paying a lot of money and if they don't the end of the EU will be near.
This is what they say on e.g. Italian TV. Everything is the mistake of the North.....while they chose themselves not to spend more money on hospitals and not to collect taxes from the rich part of the population.
Everyone uses this crisis for their own interest.
(04-07-2020, 09:23 PM)Taem Wrote: Overall, this makes me question what our world leaders really know more than anything, and what they're being told. Where are their science advisers getting their information from? What are their sources? Is information being appropriately shared collectively between all nations, or is every country conducting their own testing and basing their independent suggestions on this? It feel like it's the latter, kind of a wild west of intel out there. You really have to dig and vet your sources to get any accurate information and not sensationalism!
I think everyone has most of the information but there are lots of things unclear about this new virus and decissions are made based on politics anyway. You have information and you make your evaluation and do what you think is best.