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chowmama

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5. I call BS on the media's silence 'because diagnosis'.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2026, 12:25 PM

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Diagnosis is stating a cause. You literally can't do that without a personal face-to-face exam, usually with actual tests involved.

However, you can say all over the place that "This is not normal. This is wrong. I don't know exactly what's going on here or why, but we need to find out and, in the meantime, keep it from having disastrous consequences.

That's too many words. But the media can and should scream from the rooftops daily "Look at this, this is happening, this is wrong, this is not normal.

That's allowed. They're not doing their job and I will never, ever, forgive them.

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