Posted on 11/13/2020 8:49:47 AM PST by george76
The Los Angeles Times featured a story on Thursday about a wedding in Maine, which the CDC believes “likely” caused a COVID-19 outbreak, to argue that people should reconsider their small holiday gatherings.
“If you want to know why public health officials are so nervous about how much worse the COVID-19 pandemic will get as the holiday season unfolds, consider what happened after a single, smallish wedding reception that took place this summer in rural Maine,” the article states.
The LA Times claims that while only 55 people were actually at the reception, one guest reportedly spread the virus before the onset of their symptoms, causing 176 others to test positive within less than 40 days. Seven died.
The catch in this scenario, however, is that none the seven deaths that the article implies occurred because people gathered had attended the event.
An official CDC report about the spread stated that none of the people who attended the reception and tested positive were even hospitalized.
Six of the seven deaths included in the tally occurred in a long-term care facility after a wedding guest passed the virus to their parent who also happened to be a healthcare worker in a nursing home. Despite experiencing “fever, chills, cough, myalgia, runny nose, and headache,” the worker still worked for two days after the onset of their symptoms.
Three days after their symptoms manifested, the worker was tested but did not receive a positive result until five days after that. By then, universal testing was implemented at the care facility which resulted in at least 14 positive staff members (18.4 percent) and 24 residents (54.5 percent).
Six of the residents, all over 60 with underlying medical conditions, died following the outbreak.
The seventh death occurred in someone over the age of 75 who was hospitalized with the virus but did not attend the wedding.
Despite a subsequent outbreak in a corrections facility where a wedding guest worked, there were no hospitalizations or deaths in staff or inmates.
The LA Times has a history of misconstruing COVID-19 reporting to fit a narrative.
In late October, the publication targeted California pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church by publishing an article that framed the congregation’s three reported COVID-19 cases as an “outbreak,” despite having more than 7,000 congregants.
“Coronavirus outbreak strikes L.A. megachurch that defied public health orders,” the headline read.
Jenna Ellis, attorney for MacArthur and Grace Community Church, denounced the article, undercutting its biased framing in a statement.
“Three very mild positive tests among more than 7,000 people is hardly news. 0.0004 or 0.043% is not an ‘outbreak,’” she said. “The LA Times and others’ grossly misleading and fear-mongering headlines aim to mischaracterize Grace Community Church as irresponsible and a superspreader.”
These seven victims also did not go to China. But I still blame China.
COVID-19 hysteria propaganda going full speed ahead.
I just got to thinking...
Remember all those seniors in 5X who were murdered by that serial killer who was able to stay under the radar so long?
A hope something similar isn’t going on across the country.
Any unattended death should be given scrutiny.
....seniors in TX....
The media has a long tradition of starting from leftist dogma and looking for anecdotes that fit that dogma. Now, the reflex is to distort anecdotes beyond recognition so that even data that contradicts its preferred narrative is said to advance that narrative. Very Alice in Wonderland.
they want to blame the wedding when it was the health care worker who chose to continue to work in a high risk to patients environment after having symptoms who did the real spreading of the virus.
Great post.
The other term (which you don’t hear so much these days) is the _angle_ of the story.
The editor/reporter starts with an _angle_, then they find “experts”, data, anecdotes that support their _angle_.
I could write a story about the moon being made of green cheese if that was my _angle_.
That’s why none of the COVID numbers that are reported are accurate, unbelievable.
It will magically go away on January 20, 2021.
RE: LA Times Blames Seven COVID Deaths On Small Maine Wedding That Victims Did Not Attend
Yes, but did the victims have any contact with ANY PERSON WHO ATTENDED THE MAINE WEDDING who were infected?
More people over 90 voted in the recent Presidential election than any other time in history and about 75% of them were dead. Covid din’t keep any of them from voting apperantly.
Exactly.
I don’t understand why people go to work when they’re sick, but I guess it could be because they need the money.
I also question whether or not this worker actually got CoVid from their adult child who attended the wedding. It could be, but it’s not the only possibility. It is also possible that the worker got sick from another worker or someone else that they came into contact with.
I also question whether or not this worker actually got CoVid from their adult child who attended the wedding. It could be, but it’s not the only possibility. It is also possible that the worker got sick from another worker or someone else that they came into contact with.>>> True but that is not how communism works.
Everyone will be exposed. Unless you live on a desert island the virus is going to find you. If you leave the desert island, your going to be exposed.
The vaccine, if it ever shows up, is not going to guarantee you aren’t going to get sick. . It is not going to be any more effective than natural immunity.
Masks make it worse. If the virus gets on your mask, you are eventually going to get it in your lungs. If it gets inside the mask, you’re not going to be able to breathe it out. You’re going to be sucking that virus in and out of your lungs until it takes root.
The government has no idea what they are doing. They can’t do anything right. Do you think they know how to stop this virus?
Everything they’ve tried has failed. We are being ruled by idiots.
“We are being ruled by idiots.”
Been going on for a loooong time.
How do they know they didn’t contract the virus at work, or walking the dog, or etc?
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