“Perhaps most importantly, it has sometimes been said, and the media has left the widespread impression, that the United States has mis handled the coronavirus.”
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In his Wall Street Journal editorial, “Unraveling the Media Myths of Covid-19,” Baker explained how the maximum media distorts America’s reaction to the pandemic.
“Perhaps we can forgive them for the endless repetition of pandemic pornography; stories of tragedies selectively eliminated in a different way from perfectly healthy young people succumbing to the virus,” he wrote.
“While we know that the chances of a user under the age of 30 dying through Covid are very slim, we also know that press trials have favored the exceptional and terrible about the regime and the mundane,” Baker continued.
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Baker said Tuesday that many headlines pointed to 163,000 deaths in the United States as the gross figure in the world.
“In fact, measured through population deaths, no case as horrible as all those deaths, of course they are, the United States is pretty much in the middle of the big countries to deal with it…”, he said.
“If you take the G-7 countries: The United States, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom, the United States is literally in the middle in terms of total deaths consistent with millions of inhabitants. In other words, [in terms of] that of the deceased populations, it does a little more than in Latin America and worse than in Asia ».