You wanna see “Fake News”? This is as amateurish an effort as we are likely to see…but it is a New York Newspaper…
A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump’s controversial coronavirus comments
The population of New York City is 8.3 million; the New York Metropolitan area is 26.3 million!
“An unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump’s bogus claim that injecting such products could cure coronavirus, the Daily News has learned.”
Is that not alarming?!
But get this…
“The Poison Control Center, a subagency of the city’s Health Department, managed a total of 30 cases of possible exposure to disinfectants between 9 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday, a spokesman said.
Did you get that…30 cases??!!
The population of New York City is 8.3 million; the New York Metropolitan area is 26.3 million!
And 30 cases is an “unusually high number of New Yorkers”!!
There’s more:
“None of the people who reached out died or required hospitalization, the spokesman said.”
“But compared to last year, the number of cases was worthy of a double-take.”
According to data obtained by The News, the Poison Control Center only handled 13 similar cases in the same 18-hour period last year.
Thirty versus 13 is cause for a ‘double take’ ??? (Well, I guess that is an increase of a “staggering” 43%+”, and for a NY Daily writer that’s ’cause for a double take’.)
But there’s more!
Moreover, out of the cases reported between Thursday and Friday, nine were specifically about possible exposure to Lysol. Ten were in regard to bleach and 11 about household cleaners in general, the spokesman said.
About “possible exposure to”...Nowhere does it say anything about the people “ingesting” anything!!! Only in the headline of the story does it say that “health authorities FEAR…”!
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Veritaspac notes:
– The N Y Daily News is a liberal rag…excuse, “tabloid”
– This as close as Trump came to saying anything within a mile of the media slant: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it’d be interesting to check that.”
– Breitbart’s take: “Trump was far from a model of clarity, but he did not actually propose injecting patients with disinfectant; he deferred to “medical doctors” to figure out how to apply Bryan’s research.”
– As one who actually watched the briefing, even that (‘far from a model of clarity’) doesn’t justify the stretch the media took on the comment, note again, “he deferred to “medical doctors” to figure out how to apply Bryan’s research.”
– This was Victor Davis Hanson’s observation: “Anyone who watches the entire press conference sees the context, and why the president is legitimately upset with the constant “gotcha” attempts while the nation has more serious concerns. But few in the nation do watch all of them. Instead the public gleans bits and pieces of them as carefully edited sound bites delivered by print and television media.”
– Writing in REASON magazine, Elizabeth Nolan Brown notes: “One article making the rounds, from the New York Daily News, is headlined “A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump’s controversial coronavirus comments.” But the article makes no mention of anyone deliberately consuming household cleaners. It simply states that 30 people called the city’s poison control hotline “over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners.”
Fearing that you ingested something doesn’t jibe with having intentionally consumed that substance.” dlh
