Alex Berenson is a former reporter at the New York Times known for his coverage of coronavirus on Twitter. He has written extensively debunking fearmongering claims related to the lockdowns. Berenson later wrote a book titled, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns.”
We covered Berenson back in June after his ebook, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns,” was censored and banned by Amazon. The retail giant said the book “did not comply” with their (undisclosed) guidelines. Amazon finally backed down and allowed the book to be sold after Elon Musk tweeted to complain about Amazon monopoly.
Now, Berenson just came out in a series of tweets to denounce mainstream media fearmongering and the role of big tech companies. In the first tweet, Berenson said: “I’m increasingly convinced that #SARSCoV2 is a creation of the media/technology complex. (NO – I do not mean it’s not real or was bioengineered.) What I mean is: aside from a couple of weeks in a handful of cities worldwide – including, sigh, the world’s media capital…”
In the second tweet, Berenson said: “The overall effects of this epidemic have essentially been impossible for the average person to see without a microscope. Hospitals are not overflowing. Bodies are not piling up in the streets. Most of us will never know anyone under 55 (65? 70?) who has died of #Covid.”
“But instead many people feel like the world is ending? Why? More than anything else, it’s the obsessive – almost sordid – fascination with death counts, updated in real time and presented without context (average age of victims, how many people generally die in a year, etc)…,’ Berenson said.
Why are we counting deaths this way? We’ve never done this for any other illness. Never. And there are lots of reasons, but maybe the most important is that we’re doing this largely because we can – because the technology now exists to aggregate these counts almost instantly.
And then both conventional and social media are blasting out these figures not just every day but every second – from the @cnn deathmeter to @nytimes heatmaps to everyone screaming on Twitter. True story: at this point #SARSCoV2 worldwide is slightly worse than a bad flu year…
And the 700,000 people it has killed worldwide are less than half the number who have died or traffic accidents OR diarrhea OR tuberculosis this year, less than 2% of all deaths.
There has never been anything like this before, but not because of the virus.
I’m increasingly convinced that #SARSCoV2 is a creation of the media/technology complex. (NO – I do not mean it’s not real or was bioengineered.) What I mean is: aside from a couple of weeks in a handful of cities worldwide – including, sigh, the world’s media capital…
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 12, 2020
But instead many people feel like the world is ending? Why? More than anything else, it’s the obsessive – almost sordid – fascination with death counts, updated in real time and presented without context (average age of victims, how many people generally die in a year, etc)…
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 12, 2020
