As this global pandemic of panic has unfolded these past few weeks, I was heartened to see various video clips of Dr. Drew (this one, for example) counseling a calm and rational approach to this new virus and condemning the mainstream media for its "unconscionable" reportage fanning the flames of panic. Every time I would look at the New York Times, for example, it was plastered with headlines and bylines of lurid yellow journalism, clearly fomenting rhetoric of panic. I tentatively, and reasonably, concluded that this new virus was being weaponized by the Left-leaning mainstream. To what end? Apparently at that huge juicy orange target they've been frothing at the mouth about for years now, Donald.
This doesn't mean that every Leftist venue & organ out there indulging in this rhetoric has the conscious intention to use that rhetoric in order to help bring down Trump. It seems to be a combination, typical of the Left, of a sheeplike lockstep echo-chamber conformity on the part of many if not most, and, on the part of perhaps a (small?) minority of more extremist Leftists, a more deliberate attempt to weaponize the epidemic.
There is a mirror-image oddity on both sides concerning the partisan angle: On the Left, you'd think they would recoil from the obvious implications which a Pandemic Without Borders has for their cherished borderless globalism; and yet, with seemingly heedless abandon they have plunged into that rhetoric and continue fanning its flames which, one would think, can only result in an eventual blowback on their dream of a global promiscuity of transmigration.
Meanwhile, most conservatives seem to be cultivating a healthy skepticism about the vertiginously apocalyptic dimensions of a virus gone viral.
And yet, on the flip side of the partisan wars, I was surprised to see Nick Fuentes (supposedly to the right of the Alt-Right) on his Twitter page tweeting various memes about the virus which sounded the alarm in ways not much different from the Left-leaning New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, etc. etc. For example, Nick recommends three Twitter accounts as "Best Twitter Accounts to follow the Coronavirus Pandemic", and when one consults those three, one finds them decidedly on the side of pandemic panic rhetoric:
Best Twitter Accounts to follow the Coronavirus Pandemic:
One wonders what Nick's motive could be; perhaps he is slyly co-opting the panic because he sees its potential for undoing the globalist agenda of Third-Worldizing the West...?
All that said, I don't know how mainstream "9News" from Australia is, but at least one page they had on the virus seemed level-headed. However, a cursory look at their front page today indicated the now conventional purple prose on the border of hysteria.
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