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Friday, January 14th, 2022, 8:56 pm

BBC is Not on the Same Planet as Us (Updated)

BBC spin

Update (15/1/2022): Under “top stories” right now, some cherry-picked weekend data for manufactured optimism — all this while death toll soars to worst in nearly a year:

Cherry-picked stats

Also this morning:

BBC endgame

So the headline (from today, top story) speaks of “Endemic Covid” (downgrading it). “Is the pandemic entering its endgame?” Endgame? Seriously??? It’s no chess, deaths have peaked again. This sort of optimism-themed propaganda helps nobody. It gives false expectations.

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