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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Well that’s too bad.
You’ve got your choices for information, the various news outlets, the government, and yoyos like the people in that video. Who do you trust implicitly? Hopefully no one. Who do you completely dismiss? Hopefully no one.
The trick is to be smart and critical and glean information from many sources.
Even the clowns in that video had some good information- the hospitals as shown in the news aren’t crowded 24/7. Good to know. Of course, like the news media, they then took it too far and implied that the hospitals are never busy.
It’s a jungle out there.
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Here's the thing. Given the obvious eccentric and fanatical and patently false nature of the video, why would anyone believe any portion of the video. We don't know when this footage was shot. We don't know where in the hospitals it was shot. Hospitals are big. Lots of places in them aren't that busy for 20 seconds at a time. We don't even know that the inside of the hospital is the same as the outside of the hospital. Disclaimer, I didn't watch much of this obvious garbage so there could be a sign filmed inside that matches up with the outside.
But really, I can't understand how anyone would watch that with any credibility. It's odd that Matt questions the media, of a WORLDWIDE phenomenon, but doesn't question a crackpot youtube video. That I don't get.
This is the problem with the Internet and our country. So much real news has been labeled as fake news by people who don't like it, that fake news now has the same opportunity to be taken seriously because people are easily herded into buying into fantasies that self-reinforce through the group collective. Very Borgian. Another brick in the foundation of our developing Idiocracy.