Something I Miss a Lot About the Covid Shutdown

VintageBetter

VintageBetter

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Today I was listening to the podcast “Reveal”. Good podcast. The episode is entitled “The COVID Tracking Project, Part 1”. It originally aired in April 2023.

I was recalling how HELPFUL the news media was in those days, full of information about what Covid was, postulating on how it was spread (that was still being determined), and giving advice. Remember all the instructions on hand washing and telling people not to go anywhere unless they had to?

What I miss most about those days is the news media telling us HELPFUL, protective information.

Now, the news media is back to its old ways: reactionary, near-hysteria about recent past events, back to click-bait, back to covering much bad stuff in great detail, as if there is anything we can do about it, or as if we would benefit from knowing some guy with a violent past killed his mother. His immediate neighbors would like to know that, but do four milion people need to watch out for this guy who was already shot by police? No. He’s dead. They just choose to run that story because it is sensationalistic. Back to reporters being ghouls.

Not a peep of helpful, forward-looking, protective information. Very little need-to-know news.

I miss the educational, protective aspect of Covid Coverage. I think if the news did that more often on various topics, people would not despise news coverage so much and maybe they would buy the newspapers?
 

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VintageBetter said:
Today I was listening to the podcast “Reveal”. Good podcast. The episode is entitled “The COVID Tracking Project, Part 1”. It originally aired in April 2023.

I was recalling how HELPFUL the news media was in those days, full of information about what Covid was, postulating on how it was spread (that was still being determined), and giving advice. Remember all the instructions on hand washing and telling people not to go anywhere unless they had to?

What I miss most about those days is the news media telling us HELPFUL, protective information.

Now, the news media is back to its old ways: reactionary, near-hysteria about recent past events, back to click-bait, back to covering much bad stuff in great detail, as if there is anything we can do about it, or as if we would benefit from knowing some guy with a violent past killed his mother. His immediate neighbors would like to know that, but do four milion people need to watch out for this guy who was already shot by police? No. He’s dead. They just choose to run that story because it is sensationalistic. Back to reporters being ghouls.

Not a peep of helpful, forward-looking, protective information. Very little need-to-know news.

I miss the educational, protective aspect of Covid Coverage. I think if the news did that more often on various topics, people would not despise news coverage so much and maybe they would buy the newspapers?
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I rarely watch the news and the reasons you listed are exactly why. I get my covid news from the CDC website. For general news I go to BBC. MSN is not what it used to be. Yahoo is generally just for light reading.

I do not want my news "curated just for me". I want the real news. There is no such thing as "alternative facts". Curated news is part of what's wrong. Rather than reporting facts they are trying to become "yes men" and show you what they think you want to see. We have enough of that going on. That should not be a function of the news.
 
I miss how in the beginning, people banded together and helped each other. My friends gave me lots of information about how and where to get things that were difficult to get. I helped people to get appointments for vaccines when they first came out. Some of my neighbors who sew got together and made cloth masks and provided health care workers, police and firefighters.

Later, people got so ugly.☹️
 
I enjoyed being able to wander around the shops, even though they were closed, without having to deal with crowds of people.

As regards the news, Aljazeera is a good news site. They feature news from all over the world and their presenters are mostly English so there is no difficulty understanding them.
 
Lavinia said:
I enjoyed being able to wander around the shops, even though they were closed, without having to deal with crowds of people.

As regards the news, Aljazeera is a good news site. They feature news from all over the world and their presenters are mostly English so there is no difficulty understanding them.
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For news about the USA for a time I liked Aljazeera as unbiased. With the middle east they are completely one sided.
 
My job is wanting people to return to work three days a week. It is stupid. They have this fantasy and are putting it on for show. I hope to get a full remote job by year end.
 
I enjoyed all of the free entertainment that was filmed and put online by theater companies who were locked down and unable to publicly perform.
I enjoyed watching several celebrities who were locked down just like everyone else and decided to take to YouTube and perform their music or fool around and make me laugh.

I was very touched by the people in Italy who played music from their balconies while they were in lockdown.
 
I enjoyed sparse traffic but I felt something was seriously wrong in the world and I was helpless to improve my own life or do anything about anything.

I enjoyed seeing deer and pheasants walking along the sidewalks in my neighborhood because all the humans were inside shaking. Still I greatly fear going forward, that governments are going to use pandemics to control their citizens' behaviors and people will just fall in line again and do as they are told again because the W.H.O. says it's a public health concern.

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Olivia said:
Except when you think about where the most social distancing occurred which was in hospitals where very sick and/or dying patients were socially distanced from their loved ones. Not worth it to me.
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George1959 said:
In my opinion letting people die alone without their loved ones was a horrendous crime.
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My MIL spent her last 3 weeks alive in the hospital with congestive heart failure (no covid). We were told she was doing well, but since she wasn't dying so we couldn't visit. Only those dying could have visits they said. We could only talk on the phone which didn't work well since they lost her hearing aids after being there only a few days.

We took her to the hospital ER directly from her doctors office who had called notifying she was on her way. My SIL went into ER with her with all of the insurance & other information that was needed, but they didn't want to listen to her & told her to get out of the ER. Whoever she was dealing with didn't even ask who the point of contact would be for their mom. Yes, they really did kick my SIL out of the ER & left a 90 yo woman who wasn't feeling well to do it all herself without family help.

When we didn't hear anything from the hospital so my SIL called the hospital & was told they couldn't give out any info because they didn't have a point of contact. After a few transfers, she was lucky to get ahold of the nurse who was taking vitals on my MIL when she arrived & remember my SIL. This nurse updated the computer with contact info.

All the reports from staff we received was that she was stable with no serious problems . Then on a Wednesday morning my SIL was told via phone to make arrangments for a nursing home because her mom was dying & she couldn't stay any longer. OMG, we were in shock to say the least. I still feel & have no doubt they knew she was dying all along, but lied to us because then we would have been allowed to visit.

No nursing homes were taking anyone in & there were at home nurses available. We turned to the local hospice which was a God send. That same Wednesday in the afternoon, everything we needed for was delivered & set up.

The hospital kicked her out at 9 PM that night. Hospice transported her along with their nurse. Thursday her kids stayed with her. Friday morning the nurse (had the same lady the entire time) told us it wouldn't be long & made arrangements for her to go to hospice that afternoon. She passed early on Saturday morning.

This is just one story of many of what took place during this $hit Show. No one in charge will ever be held accountable for what they did. But many other people have paid the price for those decisions.

JUST THINK OF THIS ... How many people were denied medical treatment & medical tests which resulted in their deaths? We probably won't ever learn the numbers of people who died because of failure to receive proper medical treatment because of the lockdown.
 

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