Biden’s million-vaccinations-a-day plan won’t contain COVID-19 until 2022, immunologists warn, screams the headline.
Shocking news.
Let’s see. The US population is 328 million. As of yesterday there were 342 days left of the year, and it takes at least 14 days to get both shots, leaving 328 days for 328 million people.
Yup, that’s headline stuff. It’s not immediately clear to us why they felt the need to quote immunologists when simple arithmetic would have done it.
In other news:
According to the independent, rioters… well what the headline says.
Maybe a dictionary would help:
Rioter: one of a group of people who meet in a public place and behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way
Cambridge Dictionary
So if they weren’t engaging in violence, they weren’t rioters. I’m wondering… if reporters can’t find a calculator nor a dictionary… what precisely do they do? Ask questions?
Here’s the Telegraph:
Spain throws cold water on summer holiday trips as it seeks to vaccinate 70 per cent of population
According to the Prime Minister, they’ll have this done by the end of Summar.
If the current rate of 1.1 million vaccines a month continues, though, it will take at least 30 months to get there rather than seven. But somehow no question came to mind.
And then there’s this:
Man jailed for allegedly posting disrespectful photo of deputy’s grave
This one is most shocking. NBC reporter Dennis Romero reported on the above, then added numbers from his own research, and, most shockingly, quoted an expert answering pertinent questions.
You know, all those things we thought reporters did.
No wonder he’s only covering local news. That sort of thing won’t be tolerated at the national level.
