As you probably know, Trump ordered hospitals to stop reporting Covid data to the CDC and instead give it to the dept. of Health and Human Services which is directed by a guy he appointed. What I didn't realize was that this order came into effect July 15th, which is just two days before the all time peak of new cases, on July 17th, after which the new case numbers have been in steady decline. I know this is old news, I just hadn't realized how closely those dates lined up. Kinda scary!
👏 STOP 👏 DEVALUING 👏 INFORMATION 👏 BY 👏 CALLING 👏 IT 👏 OLD 👏 NEWS
You wanna know another word for old news? History. And we need to constantly be rubbing our own noses in the mess we made on the carpet.
There's this god damned mostly-youth-based obsession with just sort of shrugging off anything that's literally over 2 days old at this point, and the window keeps getting shorter and shorter. "Oh yeah I already saw that this morning, don't bring that old fogie news up to me this afternoon."
I'm not targeting you specifically, ned_ludd, but calling out a phenomenon I've seen playing out more and more. People have bought in hook, line and sinker into the 24-7 turbo-trash news cycle, feeling lonely and alone if they aren't up to the god damned minute on largely meaningless fluff headlines. The present is the sum of all parts of history. Live in it like you will be an everlasting part of it, not a god damned fly buzzing around a trash can.
I was going to read this post but then I saw that it's an hour old, I'd rather read something more current :)
You're absolutely right. I mostly meant it in the sense of "I am probably repeating something you have heard 20 times" but I deeply agree with this critique in general.