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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you'd actually read the article instead of jumping straight from the headline to the funny quip you thought of:

Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” [Spanish health minister] Padilla said.

This doesn't sound like a discrimination thing; she literally described a cough that went away days ago and an anxiety she was feeling.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

So out of curiosity because I shit on MAGA for this all the time. This is a special interest story trying to make us feel a certain way isn't it? It's not about statistics or facts. It's about a feeling. It's manipulative.

What is that message the author wants us to feel

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not even true. The article has been retracted because they mixed people up and it was a woman who tested negative that was told it was anxiety.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This is insane. What happened to journalism.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They just want you to click so they can get paid. It's called clickbait. It isn't a special interest story.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My question is, what does that say about us? What is the message the author knew would work on us?

This is by definition a special interest story. It might as well be a story about an elderly women feeding ducks by the pond.