The worldwide coronavirus pandemic has turned out to be "slightly worse than a bad flu year," former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, an outspoken critic of stay-at-home orders and other responses to the virus, tweeted Wednesday. In a six-tweet thread, Berenson described the pandemic as a "creation of the media/technology complex" before emphasizing that he did not mean the virus is "not real or was bioengineered." who has died of COVID," added Berenson, the author of "Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns." Berenson went on to accuse the media of an "obsessive - almost sordid - fascination with death counts, updated in real-time and presented without context." "There has never been anything like this before, but not because of the virus."

Source: Fox News August 12, 2020 20:14 UTC