'I Just Left the ER' COVID Fearmongering Goes Viral on Twitter. Where Are the Fact-Checkers?https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/07/26/i-just-left-the-er-covid-fearmongering-goes-viral-on-twitter-n1464854If the words of that “doctor” who “just left the ER” and has a message about getting “crushed” by the new COVID Delta variant looks familiar, it’s because you probably have seen it before.
It’s an apparent astroturfed message campaign to scare people into getting a COVID vaccine.
It’s unclear who is behind the effort, but what is clear is they have many people and perhaps even bots willing and able to cut and paste the message to issue the fearful message because we’re “getting crushed” by the COVID Delta variant, don’t you know?
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Many people, even people who aren’t doctors or nurses but who appear to be pushing COVID fear-porn for political advantage on social media, are sending the message that they “just left the ER” and – oh my God everyone’s dying and they wish they’d gotten vaccinated – and, and …
And they just got busted.
The great COVID fear porn narrative was outed on Twitter beginning on Sunday night with a tweet showing that many people were using the exact same message.
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Just in case you come across this in social media, it's an
astroturfed scampaign.
