Abuse of the Mental Plane

The mental plane, as some call it, is all about perception.  The media abuses the mental plane by trying to manipulate perception through using facts out of context, propaghanda, and outright lies.  

It's really easy to find news articles that try to put fear into people regarding the coronavirus, and anyone who downplays the coronavirus gets a lengthy diatribe, or gets censored.  The following article is titled "Trump downplays COVID-19's mortality rate in US."  Here is an excerpt at the end of the article:

"But during an interview with CNN's Sanjay Gupta on Wednesday, Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, agreed that the U.S. death rate was one of the highest in the world. He also suggested the U.S. is not doing as well as other countries in handling the disease.

"It is worth reminding people we're not quite 5 percent of the world's population, yet represent 20 to 25 percent of the world's deaths ... that has to be the worst, is it not the worst?" Gupta asked." Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-downplays-covid-19s-mortality-rate-in-us/ar-BB17GhRB?li=BBnb7Kz

I could put this spin on the coronavirus using these facts:

Even if the US reaches the projected 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus by December 2020, this is less than 1/10 of 1% of the US population, and less than 5/1000 of 1% of the world's population.

Even if the US reaches the projected 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus by December 2020, this is less than half the number of people who died from heart disease in the US in 2017.  647,457 people died of heart disease in the US in 2017.  It could, however, be argued that unlike other causes of death, the coronavirus is preventable, but heart disease is preventable through proper diet and exercise.  Also, looking at the demographics, the pre-existing medical condition with the highest mortality from the coronavirus is heart disease.

Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/


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  1. Congrats on your new blog. Maybe this can become an alternative discussion forum where we won't have to wait for moderators taking forever to approve comments which kills the conversation while allowing established complainers over legitimate posts to be published.

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    1. Thanks! Yeah, there will be no waiting here, as it's set to automatically approve comments. It's true what you say about the complainers on Cobra blog, which has been baffling.

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