Tulsa World reporters really don’t like their lies being challenged

Here is a fact-free, irresponsible piece of panic porn published recently at the Tulsa World: “New surge of COVID patients, young and unvaccinated, ‘very scary’ for St. Francis physicians”

It’s the typical fearmongering, ancedote-as-journalism tripe, complete with the apocryphal 11th-hour, ICU-bed confession of vaccine faith, patient “surges”, angry/frustrated doctors, et cetera. Except this has been the hospital’s occupancy rate over the course of the entire pandemic:

And here has been the entire state’s ICU occupancy:

There was zero information in the Tulsa World article from the latest Dept. of Health epidemiology report. I pointed this out to the reporter in question, followed by graphs. This was her response:

The propagandists can’t take the heat.

Author: S. Smith