The New York Times has a piece up today titled, “Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases”:
Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases. https://t.co/qGQHC8x3nX
— Jacqueline Charles (@Jacquiecharles) July 8, 2020
But it’s a pretty bogus attack. Via @PoliticalMath:
NYT: Churches are a major source of COVID outbreak
Oh shit, how bad it is?
NYT: Over 650 cases
In… in New York?
NYT: No, in the country.
But… That's fewer than half the cases Florida alone has linked directly to travel from New York to FLhttps://t.co/C5kFKy0j0o
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) July 8, 2020
650 cases. In total:
I'm very aware of the danger and possibility of worship-related COVID transmission. I don't want to downplay that.
But come ON! We need context!
Stop bullshitting us and leaving out the context, do you goddamn jobs!
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) July 8, 2020
But, hey, why let facts spoil a good narrative?
not pro-life https://t.co/Lwonf9Jh4n
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 8, 2020
And watch out for the same sort of spin from the AP, but on what’s going on in Tulsa:
The phrase "likely contributed" means "any large group of people create conditions favorable to COVID transmission"
This applies to all protests and every large gathering of any kind
It is not unique to the Trump campaign rally and it is not based on any measured metric https://t.co/NdHIwkvBqa
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) July 8, 2020
And:
There is an art and a science to interpreting the meaning behind statements of public health officials and most journalists are refusing to communicate the plain meaning, preferring instead the partisan-inducing half-truth headlines
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) July 8, 2020
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