{"id":14977,"date":"2024-01-14T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2024-01-14T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:21:17","slug":"betteridges-law-amid-a-new-covid-19-surge-should-we-all-be-wearing-masks-again-experts-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/01\/14\/betteridges-law-amid-a-new-covid-19-surge-should-we-all-be-wearing-masks-again-experts-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Betteridge&#8217;s Law: Amid a new COVID-19 surge, should we all be wearing masks again? Experts weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/amid-a-new-covid-19-surge-should-we-all-be-wearing-masks-again-experts-weigh-in\/ar-AA1mHD52?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=edgedbb&amp;cvid=d4ea84013a744193868d9ccd4a60370f&amp;ei=41\">Amid a new COVID-19 surge, should we all be wearing masks again? Experts weigh i<\/a>n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story uses the wastewater report from Today as an authoritative source to claim we are in the 2nd worst &#8220;surge&#8221; of the Covid-19 pandemic even though this is not shown in the data on hospitalizations and deaths &#8220;with&#8221; Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a headline includes a question mark, that means the answer is no, and the reporter knows the rhetorical question is a setup because the entire report is bull shit: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/12\/15\/journalism-betteridges-law-of-headlines\/\">Journalism: Betteridge\u2019s law of headlines \u2013 Social Panic (coldstreams.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope. This uses the technique of asking a rhetorical question, whose answer is No, to make an implication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,352,39,40,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-propaganda","category-misinformation","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}