Commentary
Having grasped the COVID pandemic’s lucrative lessons in making money from fear, mainstream media is now pushing a tale of fright featuring a bug called monkeypox.
Before the long weekend, one news network reported a staggering three cases of the mysterious malady in Quebec, bringing the national total to a knee-buckling five. Another tabloid-headlined these figures as an “outbreak” of shock horror nightmare pestilence sweeping the True North Scared and Susceptible.
Well, OK, you could consider one case for every 7.6 million Canadians an “outbreak.” You would just have to round up generously. Me? Subject to dutifully following the science, I’m inclined to consider monkeypox merely more media monkey shine….