The media has a collective cognitive disorder.
The media reports news and then forgets what information they say.
When the Pandemic first struck America, all news sources put up CDC charts of potential total number of deaths over time.
Does anyone remember those charts?
When you looked past a year, those numbers mounted up to 500,000 to a million dead.
Every day you can hear the media wince about why this President acts the way he does.
They seem to forget they tell us one week he's a sociopath malignant narcissist liar, and the next week it's totally ignored.
Why does he keep lying?
I'll acknowledge that the media is providing a service.
Not everyone is up to date on every turn of current events.
Like those that enter a public building today have to be reminded there is a plague killing a thousand plus people every day, and they need to wear a mask.
Some people, very human, may not realize it's still killing people.
They have to be reminded.
So the news purveyors do a rehashing a gentle reminder to their consumers of what was on the previous day's menu.
Yet the media forgets what they say as soon as they say it.
The biggest one in the past year, which continues every day, is what the media said about the mortality rates for black and brown people.
After the first two months, studies of mortalities rates demonstrated that black and brown people were more adversely affected by COVID.
Black and brown people died more often than white people.
It was said over and over and over again.
Then by June, we start to get a set of silly questions out of our news hosts.
Why are the President's supporters not wearing masks?
Why is the President saying you don't have to wear a mask?
Why are the President's rallies requiring attendees not to wear a mask?
These questions require a memory.
The news hosts told America that black and brown people die at a higher rate than white people.
These questions require deductive reasoning.
Conservative America posting to each other over social media shared this scientific data that COVID kills blacks.
The news hosts ask, why are people not wearing a mask?
The answer is racism.
The second the news media said blacks die at a higher rate than whites from COVID was the second that white apartheid America took off their masks.
It is why white racist America will not put their masks back on.
A side note, that's 37% - 40% of Americans, which is the current President's base.
COVID became a plague that kills them, not us.
This lack of cognition is genuinely an all too human response.
Did you know that McDonald's has a new breakfast sandwich?
Did you see that rat running away with a slice of pizza today?
Did you know we landed on the moon?
Humans take in information at all speeds.
Instantly and not at all.
News organizations report the news they don't necessarily understand what they are saying.
They speak before they think.
They drill into the middle of a story and are proud of the hole they made.
But they all seem to have a problem with the bigger picture.
If problems could be solved by throwing a switch, it would have been done long ago.
No, problems in any society are an ugly mixed meat sandwich.
Everyone in their camp thinking they got the best sandwich.
Each camp willing to go to war over the selection of condiments.
What we all need is a bridge of information.
A conduit of truth.
A concierge of just the facts.
Some good people keeping track, making connections, doing the work of analysis of the facts.
The leaping from headline to headline will make a nation weary.
The wind will always be with us…
It is up to each of us and together to lean into that wind to get truth.
Listen more.
Serve we, the people.
Listen.
Peace
DFrey
