{"id":19379,"date":"2025-08-23T01:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19379"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:17:17","slug":"media-where-idiocy-runs-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/08\/23\/media-where-idiocy-runs-rampant\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Where idiocy runs rampant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>How did <strong>a pandemic that was largely ended by vaccines <\/strong>lead to this policy regime?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/aCvmf#selection-4771.0-4771.82\">Opinion | MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I stopped reading at that sentence. No idea what the rest of this story says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI generated answer (verified)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>According to CDC estimates published in mid-2023, approximately 77.5% of Americans aged 16 and older had antibodies from at least one prior COVID-19 infection by the end of 2022. That figure reflects seroprevalence data\u2014meaning blood tests showing evidence of past infection, not just self-reported cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For children under 18, the rate was even higher: over 90% had been infected at least once by December 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>By mid-2023 (2 years ago), the CDC estimated that 77.5% of American had had Covid, and 90% of children had had Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC estimates that 81% of adults had at least one Covid-19 vaccination and 40% of children had a Covid vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, most all adults were vaccinated &#8211; yet almost all adults had Covid-19. Does that sound like a vaccine stopped the pandemic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No. The pandemic stopped for the same reasons other pandemics stopped &#8211; people had the disease, developed immunity, and the virus, over time, mutated to a less virulent form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ezra Klein of the NY Times wrote the sentence at the top. It is not supported by any data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;JournOList&#8221; creator says the pandemic was ended by vaccines. Per the CDC, by mid-2023, almost 4 out of 5 adults in the US had had Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,30,352,39,40,348,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lies","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-misinformation","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news","category-public-health","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379","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=19379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}