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You may have heard that Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed that 100,000 children are currently hospitalized, and in serious condition, with Covid. That number is wildly wrong. <\/p>\nYou may have heard that Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed that 100,000 children are currently hospitalized, and in serious condition, with Covid. That number is wildly wrong. <\/p>\n
Justice Stephen Breyer made a similarly inaccurate statement, claiming there were 750 million new cases of Covid in the country. (He may have simply confused thousands and millions. You know how it is in Washington. Thousands, millions, billions, trillions. They all run together.) <\/p>\n
Will they be banned from social media for spreading Covid misinformation? (I hope Supreme Court justices have the sense not to be on social media.) <\/p>\n
Where did they get these numbers, and why didn’t their B.S. detectors go off when they heard them? They should have the sense to realize those numbers are wildly inflated. <\/p>\n
The bigger question is why these very smart, very well-educated people were not only misinformed, but confident enough in their incorrect facts to repeat them in the Supreme Court!<\/i> Two minutes on a search engine could have solved this. <\/p>\n
They would never<\/i> have done the same with a legal precedent. They would have had their facts straight, and heads would roll among their staff if they had been misled. <\/p>\n
But this? Facts don’t seem to matter when you’re making an argument about Covid. <\/p>\n
I understand how this works with the normal population. People are too willing to believe things that confirm their biases, and everybody knows that we all live in different realities, with different fears and different facts. For some, armed insurrectionists killed police officers on Jan. 6. For others, Donald Trump really won the election and it was stolen from him. <\/p>\n
But shouldn’t Supreme Court justices be smarter than this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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