I can't count the number of communication breakdowns any more with Covid. Apparently to get any number of people on the same page about something is not possible. Even with the internet. Blame it on information overload, or perhaps apathy.
I hope when Biden takes office he does daily Covid briefings where they disseminate accurate knowledge which would include correcting previous things we thought we knew. I know democrats that actually watched the Trump briefings because there were actually intelligent people behind half the info. I think many people tuned out the moment he recommended injecting bleach - but there was still value in the briefings. It was something that I know a LOT of people actually paid attention to.
> I think many people tuned out the moment he recommended injecting bleach - but there was still value in the briefings. It was something that I know a LOT of people actually paid attention to.
This is an interesting comment re:communications and the messaging that reaches people. Trump did not recommend injecting bleach. He went on a rambling mostly incoherent recollection of a conversation he had where he was trying to learn what was being done. He was trying to sound smart.
His comments were all questions to the med experts. "Is there a way we can do something like that?" "Are we going to check on that?"
Yet everyone jumped on it saying he "claims" or "recommended". And it became "truth" because news articles covering the press conference used phrases like "claims" and "recommended".
> "So I asked Bill a question some of you are thinking of if you're into that world, which I find to be pretty interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said, that hasn't been checked but you're gonna test it. And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that too, sounds interesting. And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it (COVID19) gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. So you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me, so we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it goes in one minute, that's pretty powerful."
Presumably, Trump had been briefed about all of these things before giving the "inject bleach" press conference. The press conference is not the time to be asking questions you just thought about of medical experts. Not if you are the one giving the press conference at least. That is where the messaging fell apart.
Especially with the internet. In the 80s the main media outlets reported the page and almost everyone followed. The internet now has a million “experts” for every actual expert, and even good opinions can doffer depending how you look at the facts.
I hope when Biden takes office he does daily Covid briefings where they disseminate accurate knowledge which would include correcting previous things we thought we knew. I know democrats that actually watched the Trump briefings because there were actually intelligent people behind half the info. I think many people tuned out the moment he recommended injecting bleach - but there was still value in the briefings. It was something that I know a LOT of people actually paid attention to.