Did the Times Print an Urban Legend?
Michael Brendan Dougherty:
“…This week, the Times brings us a story from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. The headline is: “Texas Hospital Says Man, 30, Died After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’” and what we get is a story with one source.
The story reveals itself in three paragraphs:
A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to the chief medical officer at a Texas hospital.
The official, Dr. Jane Appleby of Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, said the man died after deliberately attending a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real.
In her statements to news organizations, Dr. Appleby said the man had told his nurse that he attended a Covid party. Just before he died, she said the patient told his nurse: “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”
The story has real didactic power in the current environment, illustrating perhaps four points of contention:
1) A young person
2) in a red state
3) believed the virus was a hoax
4) and failed to socially distance.
As a result, he’s dead…”
Click over for the whole thing. Looks like it is a fake and the Times is doing their best to cover it up.