Jon Stewart dives into the hantavirus cruise ship panic sweeping the news cycle, the landfill visit that appears to have sparked the spread, whether we’re getting a pandemic sequel, and the media’s eagerness to sensationalize the virus while health experts urge calm. Plus, Trump gets his own version of the golden calf, and cruise ships offer free norovirus.

  • pikl@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    They sensationalize the weather purposely using the most extreme forecast possible, causing mass hysteria is just good for business.

  • Cypher@aussie.zoneOP
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    15 hours ago

    Other videos relating to Hantavirus coverage have been allowed here, and despite expert advice news outlets have continued to stir up impressionable and hysterical individuals fears.

    We have deployed the comedians to counteract this farce of a comedy from news outlets but if the hysterical posters continue we will deploy the clowns.

    You can’t just take clowns jobs like that.