NY Times Cat-astrophic COVID Craziness: Pets, Mask Madness, Parents ‘Eager’ to Vax Kids

From isolating from your cat, to masking for monkeypox, to insisting parents are “eager” to vaccinate their kids, the New York TimesOver two years after the outbreak, it is COVID-crazy. Example: June 10, 2005 tweet Starting at Times science reporter Emily Anthes, based on her story of a veterinarian who “probably got COVID-19” from a cat:

NEW: An infected cat sneezed into the face of a veterinarian, and this is how the vet got Covid-19. The risk of catching the virus from cats remains low, but it’s a reminder to isolate from your pets when sick.

Anthes’ take is sufficiently wacky to (almost) make you miss the crazed COVID stylings of Apoorva Mandavilli, who is moving on from COVID alarmism to monkeypox alarmism.

No matter what virus she’s covering, Mandavilli can’t quit masks. She even wrote an article praising masks over vaccines.

Even after those ubiquitous cloth and medical masks have been shown to be almost useless for actually halting the spread of COVID, she now insists monkeypox is airborne, so bring out the masks again. Showing that the paper’s respect for the Centers for Disease Control is selective, Mandavilli dismissed CDC opinion when it’s not sufficiently mask-centric, as shown by this headline: “C.D.C. Airborne Transmission of Monkeypox Dismissed. Some Experts Disagree.”

And what did a March health story on a “new wave of Covid-19” offer as a solution? It’s obvious:

As the map shifts to yellow and eventually orange in your area, it’s time to take extra precautions, including donning masks in public spaces and rethinking large indoor gatherings where you don’t know the vaccination status of others….Even if you’re not wearing a mask now, check your mask supply and make sure you have plenty of high-quality medical-style masks on hand.….Dr. Marr claimed that people have grown tired of using masks. but wearing one is only a minor inconvenience and is a proven way to lower your risk….

Proven? When? How?

A June 12 story on a mediocre COVID vaccine for children must have only surveyed the COVID-obsessed TimesNewsroom at the time it was claimed

So many parents are eager for a coronavirus vaccination.For their youngest children, some parents stated they will accept low effectiveness rates as long as vaccines are safe.

Yet three days later the paper reported:

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey published last month, Only 18% of parents of children younger than 5 years old said that they are eager to get their kids vaccinated right away.

So, why was the Times say parents were “eager”?