“Look at these people having a safe outlet during such difficult times. Let’s just make sure we scold them for that, and not use the power of visuals to inform people of the actual big risks of crowded, unventilated indoors.” ht @mauprieto pic.twitter.com/BF4K0baF63

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 7, 2020

The media, and its owners, wants people to be cowering inside, terrified. That’s what causes ad clicks and that’s what sells newspapers to old people.

By the way, if you live in an apartment its far more likely that you get Covid-19 sitting alone in your tiny shitbox via its crappy ventilation than you do outside at a beach or a state park. Our media is utter garbage.