[BostonCard]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/50...op-problem

https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/qanon-cons...e-primary/

Yes, Fox News is a problem. I felt in the 1990s it should have been regulated because I could see it becoming dangerous. A credible argument can't be made that if it or something like it didn't exist, we wouldn't be facing the calamity we are now. This doesn't mean there isn't a place for what people might call conservative ideas, but making shit up from whole cloth without any effort to do real journalism and being totally unmoored by facts, leads to a culture of distrust and division. It's not sustainable.

If you need to bury your head in the sand and think that woman in Target video is some sort of anomaly, or not a symptom of a much larger disease, to sleep better at night, go right ahead. Just know that isn't going to make it go away.

Let's keep this focused on COVID-19, and not the history of conservative media. If you want to tie into specific anti-mask segments by Fox, that's one thing, but a general post about conservative media is starting to deviate from the Terry rule.

BC

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There’s a follow up video for the mask woman in Target
https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/05/arizona-s...40k-rolex/

She seems possibly mentally ill because she says she is a spokesperson for QAnon and claims she talks to Donald Trump every day.

But, I do think this woman’s actions are relevant to the discussions here because there is a broad concensus that masks are effective, and could be the single most effective thing people could do to really save this country. The resistance to masks seems to be unique to America, and, to me, somewhat of a mystery. I want to understand the anti-maskers better because I want America to stop being the most disastrous country in the world, I want to get the American economy going, I want college football to be able to happen this year, and I want my kids to be able to go to school and see their classmates, and from the information I have seen that has been made public, the two biggest barriers to these things happening are people not wearing masks and people having house and/or drinking parties, often indoors and without masks. 

As for this woman in particular, it really makes me wonder if some people just can’t handle the stress of the pandemic and they pop, which people do in all sorts of ways, but if they blow up in a way that makes a pandemic worse, and influences other people to make the pandemic worse, I think it is a serious  and relevant topic.

Thanks for the follow-up. I hope she gets the help she needs.

BC

[BostonCard]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/50...op-problem

https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/qanon-cons...e-primary/

Yes, Fox News is a problem. I felt in the 1990s it should have been regulated because I could see it becoming dangerous. A credible argument can't be made that if it or something like it didn't exist, we wouldn't be facing the calamity we are now. This doesn't mean there isn't a place for what people might call conservative ideas, but making shit up from whole cloth without any effort to do real journalism and being totally unmoored by facts, leads to a culture of distrust and division. It's not sustainable.

If you need to bury your head in the sand and think that woman in Target video is some sort of anomaly, or not a symptom of a much larger disease, to sleep better at night, go right ahead. Just know that isn't going to make it go away.

Let's keep this focused on COVID-19, and not the history of conservative media. If you want to tie into specific anti-mask segments by Fox, that's one thing, but a general post about conservative media is starting to deviate from the Terry rule.

BC

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There’s a follow up video for the mask woman in Target
https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/05/arizona-s...40k-rolex/

She seems possibly mentally ill because she says she is a spokesperson for QAnon and claims she talks to Donald Trump every day.

But, I do think this woman’s actions are relevant to the discussions here because there is a broad concensus that masks are effective, and could be the single most effective thing people could do to really save this country. The resistance to masks seems to be unique to America, and, to me, somewhat of a mystery. I want to understand the anti-maskers better because I want America to stop being the most disastrous country in the world, I want to get the American economy going, I want college football to be able to happen this year, and I want my kids to be able to go to school and see their classmates, and from the information I have seen that has been made public, the two biggest barriers to these things happening are people not wearing masks and people having house and/or drinking parties, often indoors and without masks. 

As for this woman in particular, it really makes me wonder if some people just can’t handle the stress of the pandemic and they pop, which people do in all sorts of ways, but if they blow up in a way that makes a pandemic worse, and influences other people to make the pandemic worse, I think it is a serious  and relevant topic.

Thanks for the follow-up. I hope she gets the help she needs.

BC