• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Because its taboo, and some viewers/readers will scream about it (or at least disengage) just like they do for global warming.

    It makes my skin crawl whenever I see our (Florida) weathermen bite their tongues when looking at, say, a graph of ocean heat content, and thats an order of magnitude worse on big, national, corporate media. COVID is no different.