{"id":12881,"date":"2022-10-16T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2023-11-07T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:39:50","slug":"12881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/10\/16\/12881\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter David Axe publishes literally the same headline, every month for a year &#8211; and all of them have been wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daxe\">reporter<\/a> for Forbes and The Daily Beast has literally written the same article every month for the past year, with the same scary, hysterical fear inducing headline. <em><strong>And he&#8217;s been wrong every time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FfN5217WIAAU5LV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FfN5217WIAAU5LV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FfN5217WIAAU5LV.jpg 680w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FfN5217WIAAU5LV-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FfN5217WIAAU5LV-519x270.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read this thread to see many more examples, nearly every month, with variations on the same theme:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkELindsay\/status\/1581716685748174848\">\u2620\ufe0f Mark \ud83c\udf83 Lindsay \u2620\ufe0f on Twitter: &#8220;This sounds so scary, the nightmare variant is here, XBB https:\/\/t.co\/X7Kf6eY3ce&#8221; \/ Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: And David Axe and his latest fake news headlines:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-63.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13070\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-63.jpg 365w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-63-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13069\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-62.jpg 386w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-62-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-61.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13068\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-61.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-61.jpg 384w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-61-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13000\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0-623x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0-623x1024.jpg 623w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0-768x1262.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0-935x1536.jpg 935w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0-164x270.jpg 164w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FgXUMoLWQAAW0a0.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> &#8211; And another one in October 2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-60.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13066\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-60.jpg 916w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-60-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-60-768x289.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-60-604x227.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David Axe is wrong, month after month after month after month, with the same hysterical, scary and nonsensical headlines every time. This is not journalism &#8211; this is bull shit.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(I checked his Twitter feed and he spends much of his time promoting Democratic party candidates and initiatives. Unbiased much? This does not look like a good reporter &#8211; at all.)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is U.S. media in a nutshell &#8211; its primary purpose is to find something possibly wrong with the world and spin good news into negativity &#8211; or just make up bull shit scary headlines, month after month. And then write news reports that America has an anxiety problem. There is zero self-awareness among the media elite.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE DECEMBER 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Axe only writes scary, hysterical negativity that is total nonsense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/monkeypox-outbreak-two-strains-pets-rats-1366935\/\">Monkeypox: Virus Can Jump Species, Could Find Home in Pets \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/is-hpai-the-next-pandemic-we-should-be-worried-about-and-what-about-vaccines-1234619820\/\">Save Countless Human Lives. Vaccinate Birds. \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/monkeypox-animal-disease-covid-19-public-health-1357064\/\">Monkeypox: After Covid-19 Pandemic, Experts Worry About New Disease \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/pandemic-covid-19-state-mask-mandate-1298338\/\">Statewide Covid-19 Mask Mandates Are Being Lifted. What\u2019s Next? \u2013 Rolling Stone.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ironically, this story is about loss of trust in government and public health. That loss of trust has been aided by nonsensical BS news reporting, such as that done by David Axe- he engaged in pointless and wrongheaded fear mongering, month after month after month. <em>What happened after mask mandates were lifted in the few remaining states?<\/em> Cases went down for the next 3 months until the BA.4\/BA.5 wave (when I had Covid in late June).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13191\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70-432x270.jpg 432w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-70.jpg 1511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: August 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one is from April 3, 2023:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/scientists-fear-catastrophic-covid-combination-with-mers-virus\">Scientists Fear \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 COVID Combination With MERS Virus (thedailybeast.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Axe has<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Axe\"> a BA in history and an MA in fiction writing<\/a> (really)<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Axe\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: November 2023 &#8211; David Axe and fake Covid stories are back!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-103848.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14575\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-103848.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1002\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-103848.png 1002w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-103848-600x150.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-103848-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-103848-604x151.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter named David Axe writes the same, scary, fear-inducing &#8220;worst Covid variant yet&#8221; headline story nearly every month the past year. He&#8217;s been wrong every time. But his editors don&#8217;t seem to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,30,39,40,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lies","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}