When I roll out of bed in the morning and fire up the laptop, my first stop is CBC news. They've been doing yeoman's work spreading coronageddon hysteria since late January.
Today I thought I detected a subtle change in tone. The top story was Will it really take 'weeks' to ease physical distancing? Maybe not.
Huh? Maybe not?
Is CBC throwing shade on their own scaremongering?
In the next story, a world-renowned critical care specialist suggests that we've been killing COVID-19 patients with overuse of ventilators. That story's been floating around on Putin's alt-news websites for a while, but now that it's on a "legitimate" news site, I guess it must be true.
Last week's "experts" are so last week.
All we've been hearing ventilator-wise for months is how desperately short of these machines we are. Ford, Dyson, Linamar, Tesla, and others stepped up to promise tens of thousands of new ventilators... oh wait; maybe we don't need them after all!
I recall Clark McDaniel explaining experts to me 35 years ago... "an x is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure."
But now we've got a new expert with more expertise...
I suspect this is the thin edge of the wedge in the coming tsunami of mainstream media climb-downs as reality overtakes the apocalyptic scenario we've been marinating in for months now.
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