Restaurants use an arsenal of manipulation techniques to encourage you to purchase higher profit items, and even to eat food faster so they can turn around the table to another customer, more quickly.
Surprisingly, the difference between different groups with a will and those without is very tiny and the gap is closing rapidly. But the CNBC headline chooses to spin this with an emotion-laden, inflammatory, click-bait headline.
The title says it all. U.S. media coverage of Covid-19 has been uniformly negative in tone, even when there are positive things to say.
The media is hyping an old “variant” of Covid that was found months ago and has been confirmed in a total of …. 12 people … worldwide. “Delta” and “Omicron” have both out competed this variant. But the media is hyping this for fear porn click bait.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”