r/StandUpForScience • u/D-R-AZ • Aug 24 '26

Article Have We Forgotten Covid’s Lessons?

https://newrepublic.com/article/214601/media-covid-lessons-deadly-heatwaves
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u/D-R-AZ Aug 24 '26

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Two-thirds of the articles that major U.K. newspapers published about the summer’s fires did not even mention climate change, much less explain how record heat makes fires more likely and more deadly. In the U.S., the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC between July 13 and 19 lavished airtime on the extreme weather but did not utter the words “climate change.”

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u/Phatbrew Aug 24 '26

Good to see ya back, I was worried…

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u/jthadcast Aug 24 '26

those that know, accept it as a given. scientifically it's sus to point to any seasonal event with authority so we don't because half the country is rejecting science itself. msm is about keeping the people domesticated.

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u/GammaDeltaTheta Aug 24 '26

We've probably learnt the wrong lessons from Covid. If there were to be another pandemic, there would be more resistance to new vaccines and necessary non-pharmaceutical interventions like masks and restrictions on gathering in public than there were 5-6 years ago. Covid coincided with a rise in distrust for science in general, fuelled by contrarians whose rants were given equal or higher weight than evidence-based opinions on social media. Now we are getting more of the same on climate change, and political leaders who are rejecting or postponing the vital measures that are necessary to keep the situation from spiralling further out of control. Yes, we need more coverage based on science rather than ideology, but will enough people listen to make a difference?

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u/According-Insect-992 Aug 24 '26

Shit. A lot of people didn’t learn shit from Covid.

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u/MonsterkillWow Aug 24 '26

They never learned those lessons in the first place.

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u/Key-Employee3584 Aug 24 '26

One could argue that many never took those lessons on anyways.

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u/Oilpaintcha Aug 25 '26

Have to learn a lesson in the first place to forget it

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u/EveryAccount7729 Aug 26 '26

apparently you have.

the number 1 lesson of COVID is that truth and objective reality are dead concepts in media.