Nueces County COVID-19 Infant Infection Statistics Deconstruction
The public health director of Nueces County, Texas, reported that 85 infants tested positive for COVID-19 in Corpus Christi. This report is identified as "fear porn" because it failed to clarify that the 85 cases were a cumulative total since March 2020 rather than a sudden spike. Media outlets further conflated these statistics with the county's total death toll of 82 to imply high infant mortality.
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00:00 Oh, a webinar. Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Sunday July 19th 2020 this is your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1261 This is no agenda LMMO and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here at the frontier Boston Texas capital of the drone star state in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley LS MFT I'm John C. Dvorak It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning... Wait a minute, are we the two hippest guys on the planet? Do we have new acronyms? Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. Oh, L-M-M-O Laughing My Mask Off. Laughing my mask off. Come on now, come on now. That's a good one. Yeah yeah it's one for the books, one for the books I'm in Well welcome to the uh one of the epicenters of the uh of the surge
00:58 where everything's spiking. Oh yeah, you are the second... would it be penultimate epicenter? Second best. Well of course we just visited the actual epicenter in Florida and didn't die there either so we're still hanging in were hopeful will get through this our governor has said that don't have to worry we're not going to lock down which kind of threw some Some sand in the eyes of our local mayor who had been using this lockdown coming to threaten everybody like, yeah and the next two weeks will be the most important. This is we have too many cases it's going out of control! And then we had the best fear porn ever come across The Transom on Friday 85 infants have tested positive for coronavirus in Nueces County which includes Corpus Christi The public health director made that announcement this week
01:50 urge residents to wear masks and practice social distancing. These babies have not even had their first birthday yet, please help us to stop the spread of this disease." No other details were provided on the condition of those infants but Corpus Christi currently has 82 deaths linked to the virus. All right this needs to be deconstructed now you're saying... The voice in the middle is the public health director for Nueces County which includes Corpus Christi And this report was very, very mean to first say 85 babies have tested positive not mentioning if they were sick or not and then end the report with 82 have died so far.
02:35 Yeah, but they meant 82 total people didn't they? Of course. But it's meant to put something into your brain No other details were provided on the condition of those infants but Corpus Christi currently has 82 deaths linked to the virus. But here is the kicker. Yeah nice... Well it gets better It gets better So this went viral everyone's tripping out Oh babies! Oh no! Schools are- what babies?! This report and many similar to it neglect to mention that the 85 infants who tested positive is a total number since the beginning of March. But do you think anyone will hear about that part of it or will just be the 85 children are all they're almost dead? Wow! Yeah, and that's just fear porn. Fear porn and probably irresponsible journalism
03:36 But crap. I mean it sounded like, I heard that report and thought they were having this day 85 babies somehow tested positive. And now you can see they've changed their stories the headlines remain the same 85 infants, 85 babies test positive COVID Corpus Christi, Oasis and then some of them have added down somewhere in the story that it was a total starting as March 1 So this is the kind of stuff that we have to be very careful of. Also, 38 thousand—it's an announcement it's actually in the news—38 thousand trainees are now starting their medical residency during this pandemic. This is from CNN who were happy to report and neglects to report that statistically deaths go up a little bit in July because of the thirty-eight thousand trainees who come in and are learning on the job
