The news about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the US has been quite sad this week, there are no two ways about it and it seems to make the country face a difficult July. On Wednesday, for example, the US beyond 50,000 coronavirus infections every day for the first time since the pandemic began. Countries like Florida and Nevada continues to record new cases reported and high rates of transmission and, since the start of the pandemic, the US has now reported more than 2.7 million confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus, as well as more than 128,000 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
Actor Tom Hanks (who contracted and quickly recovered from coronavirus a few months ago) took some time in the middle of promoting his new WWII era film for Apple TV + to talk a little about coronavirus and specifically to urge people Wear a face mask to protect themselves and everyone around them. He decided to offer it as a kind of PSA because of the prevalence of so many anti-science postures and anti-face masks – a lot happening in predictable environments.
A protester holds a sign during a demonstration against medical ‘tyranny’ and compulsory vaccination for children in Ukraine.Getty Images
Result of a new analysis from Media Matters shows that anti-face mask content is currently developing on Facebook, with a post about facial masking from a Facebook page that is “leaning right” gathering more than 5.5 million interactions over the past month. In addition, according to media groups, “posts that promote skepticism about the efficacy of facial coverings, despite experts” recommendation, get the most interactions. “
Media Matters conducted this analysis by looking at more than 2,000 Facebook posts about masks from right-wing Facebook pages between May 30 and June 30 “to understand the narratives that are spreading in the right-wing Facebook ecosystem.” Nearly 5.5 million interactions found include things like sharing, reactions, and comments on social networks and the group found that these posts received around 2,700 interactions per post.
Even at this stage of the coronavirus pandemic, there are still political advantages to the practice of wearing face masks or not. Security, for example, interviewing a bar owner in eastern Texas – Tee Allen Parker, owner of Machine Shed Bar & Grill in Kilgore – who has banned masks in his bar.
“We don’t live in a communist country!” he says. ‘This should be America. That’s an individual choice. There is nothing scientific that says the mask was effective. I chose not to use it, but I didn’t let thousands of people breathe at me. “
On Wednesday Meanwhile, Texas reached the highest daily number of new corona virus cases since the beginning of this pandemic.
