“America’s First Measles Death in a Decade” — How The Atlantic Spun the Narrative to Manufacture Panic
"The Atlantic gives the reader just enough detail to fill in the blanks in their head—but the image they create is likely… unlikely."
I don’t know about you guys, but I had an eventful day yesterday.
Yesterday — which just happened to be the 5th anniversary of the pandemic — I was busy arguing with people on Threads about the death in the measles case.
Imagine if Fauci were still in power, the US would be locked down by now.
On threads, it was amazing to see how mean people were online. For background, the Atlantic posted this post about a death in the case, and I responded by asking if we know for a fact she died of measles.
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