Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

It's a story about the choices photographers have to make and that's an anecdote that illustrates the decisions and risks. Putting in the bridesmaid who is not going to tell you anything helpful except something self-serving is just going to turn that story into a they-said-they said.

But whatever pushes a narrative that people need to shut up and get to work
Nurses
Teachers
Photographers
Who's next?

 

I think I follow now and this smells like another example of this story in the NYT's modern love section.

How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon (Published 2018)

 

Yes.

And isn’t that better journalism, friend?

 

Heaven forbid. Two sides.

Corroboration would have killed the story of course, as would attribution. It’s a public health crisis - hundreds could have been infected by this wedding - and we’re worried about the photographer’s ability to keep getting business?

This is what happens when the media gets overly invested in deciding truth and lies. The photographer is telling the truth because of course she is. The wedding party would only lie because of course they would. Nurses can’t get tested because of course they can’t and it’s the football team’s fault because of course it is.

 

If the media were "invested in deciding truth and lies" a while ago, we might not have ended up with 300,000 people dead because a batshit crazy, trainwreck of a guy running to be president of the United States got elected because of some e-mails.

 

Oof. That’s...when the media is responsible for killing people and not doing enough to prevent the election of certain presidents, you’ve got an interesting view of what the media’s supposed to do.

 

The guy has been spreading lies and mistruths for the past 10 years and using the media to do it. It's only in the past six weeks mainstream media have finally been using "unfounded," "baseless" (I know BT loves that word), "lies" in relation to Trump. This guy got a free ride for way too long. It's why he's president. You don't see a problem with a guy who was a major party candidate for the presidency — twice — not being held to account until it became clear he was being voted out of office?

 

My friend, the press “fact checks” “Drumpf” like crazy!

 

A decision tree for wearing a mask? Oh I see -- it's Marsabama.

LOL

 

This is what winning tastes like, I assume. So much winning.

Europe is paying less than U.S. for many coronavirus vaccines

 

One of the few redeeming qualities of this year has been the lack of mass shootings. And it makes me wonder why that is. Yes, there have been fewer large public gatherings, but if someone wanted to shoot a lot of people, they could find them here and there. Schools have been closed, so no school shootings. But it kind of begs the larger question, is the point of these mass shootings to cause mass despair? To make "everyone" feel as terrible as the shooter? And 2020 has been so awful, even potential mass shooters don't feel so alone in their misery? Or is it that the lack of mass gatherings and isolation everyone feels makes the shooter feel more "connected." Do mass gatherings, being around large groups of people, exacerbate a person's hatred of their fellow man?
Not sure how this can be studied, but I do find it an interesting and odd occurance and do hope the "lag" if you will, will help cure this nation (and world for that matter, it's not just a US thing) of mass shootings - particularly the copycat variety.
Looking at the lists this year, almost all were family/criminal enterprise related - there was a workplace shooting at Miller/Coors in Milwaukee before the COVID-19 lockdown. But can't find any with more than a few involving someone shooting random strangers.

Means - people have plenty of guns. Opportunity - like I said, there are places where people are abundant. So Motive is the one that makes me think might be missing this year - and I don't know why that is.