Michael Fumento argues the media is manufacturing coronavirus panic like it did with AIDS, SARS, and Ebola. He says the virus is new but no more dangerous than seasonal flu, mainly threatening elderly and immunocompromised people. Fumento calls CNN the "Corona News Network" for prioritizing drama over facts.
Get away, Michael Fomento.
No, who's actually worse is the worst is CNN. I call them the Corona News, the Corona News Network. Um, they're just, it's basically 24 hours of coronavirus. They even, um, they have a man there in Wuhan who does his TV broadcast with a mask over his face. TV.
I hear you.
Who's he going to get the virus from? His cameraman? The camera? You know, it's obviously— when I saw that, I said, I got to write this article. It's drama. That's all this is entirely about, really, is drama. I mean, I don't mean to downplay the people who've actually been infected and the people who've actually died. But this is, this is heterosexual AIDS all over again. This is SARS all over again. This is Ebola 1, Ebola 2. I knocked this article out in just a few hours' time because it's fill in the blanks and the editors barely edited it because, you know, they trusted me.
The article that, uh, let me just tell everybody, the article is in the New York Post and it is up at DennisPrager.com. Go ahead.
Yeah. So it was just fill in the blanks. We've been here over and over and over again. There's nothing, there's nothing really special about this virus except for one thing. And this is what drives all the hysteria.
It's new.
That's it. It is new, but is it more infectious than the flu? We have no reason to think it's more infectious than the flu. Is it more deadly than the flu? We have no reason to think that either. We do know it goes after the same— it kills the same categories of people as the flu. That is the elderly, people who are immunocompromised because they've had transplants or something like that, and people with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes. Exactly like the flu. This really, from everything we can tell, is, is like a mini flu because the real flu kills hundreds of, as many as hundreds of thousands of people each and every year. But people don't panic about the flu because we've had the flu forever and the coronavirus is new.
Okay. We'll be back with Michael Fomento. If you have a question about the coronavirus, It is interesting. I had no idea that he would isolate CNN. CNN is so compromised. I don't know who takes it seriously. And I wish it were not the case. I wish we could.
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