Covid-19 Bullshit Exposed in 5 Simple Graphics

COMMENTARY: Words don’t seem to be eradicating these fallacies. Maybe images will help.

Robert Roy Britt
Medium Coronavirus Blog
5 min readOct 27, 2020

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Image: Pixabay

Must choose my words carefully here in describing several, um, untenable untruths circulating from the top down in my beloved country amid a stomach-turning pandemic that’s taken more than 225,000 lives before the viral high season even kicks in to an expected overdrive. Turning to Merriam-Webster for some help:

trope: a common or overused theme or device

tripe: something poor, worthless, or offensive

bullshit: foolish insolent talk

Eh, I can’t decide. So… you’ve likely heard the five bits of viral tripe-trope bullshit below. Words don’t seem to be eradicating them fully, so I offer data and imagery. Before you call me a “fear-mongering, know-nothing socialist,” which I’ve heard a lot lately and respectfully disagree with, please see the included links that offer additional data and science references on each item.

1. Covid-19 is like the flu

As coronavirus infections exploded across the country in recent days, portending an eventual doubling of the pandemic death toll even by conservative projections, a grim milestone slipped by largely unnoticed…

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Robert Roy Britt
Robert Roy Britt

Written by Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB

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