AverageJoe wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:11 pm
We have people now calling for even stricter social distancing to include closing all grocery stores to pickup/delivery only, any and all government services minus PD/FD, absolutely no travel outside of your home, etc. You have Governors taking revenge for protests with more.
Yet the numbers (barring NYC and possibly LA) continue to go down. Our "new cases" numbers here in my part of FL are lower than they were almost a month ago.
Why the sudden move to all these new upgraded restrictions? Is this push back by DNC government officials? I'm just not seeing the reasoning, just the announcements.
Maybe because most of the media jobs are online publications, and those people cluster around major US cities. From 2017:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ast-215048
Where newspaper jobs are spread nationwide, internet jobs are not: Today, 73 percent of all internet publishing jobs are concentrated in either the Boston-New York-Washington-Richmond corridor or the West Coast crescent that runs from Seattle to San Diego and on to Phoenix. The Chicagoland area, a traditional media center, captures 5 percent of the jobs, with a paltry 22 percent going to the rest of the country. And almost all the real growth of internet publishing is happening outside the heartland, in just a few urban counties, all places that voted for Clinton. So when your conservative friends use “media” as a synonym for “coastal” and “liberal,” they’re not far off the mark.
Applied to the COVID outbreak, it would mean a higher likelihood of media employees painting the impact of the virus greater than it is for the whole country, if they are unable to differentiate their
local perception of reality with the national perception of reality, or indeed national facts.
Fame is not flattery. Respect is not agreement.
Hint: Sanctions and embargoes are related, but not the same thing. Embargoes usually refer to using your ships or air forces to physically prevent goods entering the embargoed state. Sanctions don't go to that length. Don't really need to, either.
