News Stories, Left vs Right Media Challenge

I just read your linked story, Rick and a couple of things stood out....

900% is a scary number until you realize 9 people would represent a "900% increase" over 1 person.

But, in this article, it says 135 people tested positive - "a 900% increase in confirmed positive cases compared to the previous 14 months.: Wow! Sounds ominous! But the original number is 15. (900% increase in 15 is 135).

But its even fewer.. the 15 figure is "compared to the previous 14 months." The way the story is poorly written, it sounds as if they got an average of one person a month. That's interesting, when you read that in June alone they got 188,829 people illegally crossing the border. Sounds like they're the ones walking into the COVID-19 Den.

Wayne Harrison wrote: I just read your linked story, Rick and a couple of things stood out....

900% is a scary number until you realize 9 people would represent a "900% increase" over 1 person.

But, in this article, it says 135 people tested positive - "a 900% increase in confirmed positive cases compared to the previous 14 months.: Wow! Sounds ominous! But the original number is 15. (900% increase in 15 is 135).

But its even fewer.. the 15 figure is "compared to the previous 14 months." The way the story is poorly written, it sounds as if they got an average of one person a month. That's interesting, when you read that in June alone they got 188,829 people illegally crossing the border. Sounds like they're the ones walking into the COVID-19 Den.

Do you have a good source that is telling you our government is testing everybody they process at the border? Do really really think that all these people (1.3 million so far this year) are mostly healthy and don't cary the virus? Of those countries, Mexico has the highest Vax rate at around 20% while others like Honduras are around 2%. What does your common sense tell you?

Get real. The U.S. is not even fully testing its own citizens.

Wayne Harrison wrote: Get real. The U.S. is not even fully testing its own citizens.

Get real? Not sure what that means, but whatever. So you have no problem with unknown people coming from every country on the planet and not being tested? You mentioned Sweden in another post as a country we should emulate... how do you think they would handle an out of control border during this pandemic?

Beats me, Rick.

Rick wrote:

Wayne Harrison wrote: Get real. The U.S. is not even fully testing its own citizens.

Get real? Not sure what that means

get real!
informal

used for telling someone that they should try to understand the true facts of a situation and not hope for what is impossible

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/get-real