I am curious about the mindset of readers consuming the NYT, Bloomberg, The Guardian, or the BBC that creates such a demand for “WE’RE ALL GONA DIE!!!” articles. Just as I was going to relax on a quiet Saturday night, BOOM!, now there are flesh eating bacteria, and this is on top of climate change, death of democracy and never ending genocide in Gaza.
It's just a news article and not that deep. It's a basic article reporting on five cases or whatever, no mention of all of us dying. I'm curious about your mindset to extrapolate all this from a run of the mill article reporting on deaths of people. Not a doctor, but maybe you should talk to one.
> Petro severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2024 over its military campaign in Gaza, repeatedly accusing West Jerusalem of committing genocide and becoming one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Latin America. He also suspended all Israeli arms purchases, ending Colombia’s long-standing reliance on Israeli military technology, banned coal exports to Israel, and later expelled Israel’s remaining diplomats after an aid flotilla carrying Colombian activists was intercepted by Israeli forces. Colombia also formally joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
> Petro is due to hand power to President-elect de la Espriella on August 7. He has said he will not attend the inauguration, challenged the legitimacy of the election, and alleged that Israel manipulated Colombia’s presidential vote by hacking election servers. Apart from aligning Colombia more closely with Washington, de la Espriella has pledged to restore full diplomatic ties with Israel, effectively reversing nearly every major foreign-policy decision of the Petro administration.
