By Tilton Adler
The mainstream media love to latch onto fearmongering buzzwords. TV news anchors emphasize them and give them a partisan narrative, and the words are often used without context, making them misnomers. A “superspreader event” is one such example, but mixed messaging has made it hard to understand what is and isn’t a superspreader event. For instance, Fox News says Black Lives Matter protest marches are superspreader events, while countless news outlets have reported that the dubious “Rose Garden Massacre” the event in which President Donald Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee for Supreme Court justice was a bona fide superspreader event resulting in the president, the first lady, staffers, and several GOP congressmen contracting Covid-19.