Being Led by a Headline.

There’s a video appeared on YouTube from the South China Post to the effect that Coronavirus can survive up to twenty eight days on certain materials.

I read effectively the same headline on the BBC News website this morning, only it wasn’t referring to Covid-19. It was about an earlier form of Coronavirus called Cov- 2 which caused the SARS outbreak some years ago.

So is this an example of the South China post doing a Donald Trump and trying to mislead the public by spurious means, or is it perhaps a shameless piece of clickbaiting?

You really can’t trust any public mouthpiece these days, can you? Maybe you never could.