{"id":10694,"date":"2020-06-29T01:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10694"},"modified":"2020-06-29T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:11:08","slug":"this-did-not-age-well-georgias-experiment-in-human-sacrifice-the-state-is-about-to-find-out-how-many-people-need-to-lose-their-lives-to-shore-up-the-economy-id-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/06\/29\/this-did-not-age-well-georgias-experiment-in-human-sacrifice-the-state-is-about-to-find-out-how-many-people-need-to-lose-their-lives-to-shore-up-the-economy-id-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"This did not age well: “Georgia\u2019s Experiment in Human Sacrifice: The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 29th, The Atlantic<\/em> published an article by writer Amanda Mull, titled: “Georgia\u2019s Experiment in Human Sacrifice: The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Nothing subtle about that title.<\/p>\n

What actually happened from Georgia’s official Covid-19 status page – deaths went down:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most of the media noise is just noise. The noise of endless speculation and unfounded assertions. Amanda Mull was completely wrong on April 29th.<\/p>\n

On June 2nd, she objected to NYC’s proposed curfew of 8 pm – thinking her city should be kept open – calling the 8pm curfew “insane”.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Others piled on to this topic including this former journalist:<\/p>\n

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Fournier dug in deep on this, posting further comments reinforcing his claim that Georgia would be killing more people.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post followed suit with this headline, which was also published on the SFGATE.com web site:<\/p>\n

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Lesson to learn:\u00a0 Recognize when journalists are opinion writers speculating about the future, not reporting on the past. Mull and Fournier made fools of themselves in a business that relies on trust. Will you trust their “reporting” in the future when they write opinions rather than reports?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On April 29th, The Atlantic published an article by writer Amanda Mull, titled: “Georgia\u2019s Experiment in Human Sacrifice: The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.” What happened: Deaths fell. By a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}