{"id":257817,"date":"2020-04-14T12:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=257817"},"modified":"2020-04-14T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:15:35","slug":"this-viral-yet-fake-picture-of-a-coronavirus-patient-is-being-used-for-likes-and-retweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/this-viral-yet-fake-picture-of-a-coronavirus-patient-is-being-used-for-likes-and-retweets\/","title":{"rendered":"This Viral Yet Fake Picture of a Coronavirus Patient is Being Used for Likes and Retweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a solid \u2018source\u2019 and \u2018citation\u2019 is very important when trying to spread a message to others. Otherwise, chances are that your next Whatsapp forward loses all credibility. However, much like our school days, we haven\u2019t learned our lesson. Our answer for everything is to copy\/paste everything, and pretend that no one would know.<\/p>\n<p>Something very similar is happening these days. In an attempt to raise awareness about the deadly coronavirus or COVID-19, people all over the internet started sharing the news of one particular girl who has contracted the disease and pleaded people to pray.<\/p>\n<p>The message is understandable and very relatable, until you get a feeling of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu because every one of these unfortunate \u2018parents\u2019 have the same child \u2013 a daughter. People all over the social media have been using the same picture of a girl wearing a mask and calling her their \u2018only daughter\u2019. Check it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seems like a lot of people have adopted this girl <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66JvSk2hP8\">pic.twitter.com\/66JvSk2hP8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omar_quraishi\/status\/1249915751860969472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/these-parents-named-their-child-lockdown-and-people-arent-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">These Parents Named Their Child &#8216;Lockdown&#8217; and People Aren&#8217;t Happy<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It seems like a lot of people have adopted this girl. Since the girl in question is actually Hispanic, Pakistanis had no trouble using her image and passing it off as one of our own. After all, she is lightly brown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-257829 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n.jpg 712w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n-561x696.jpg 561w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n-364x451.jpg 364w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n-608x754.jpg 608w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n-39x48.jpg 39w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/90915779_2907627892650911_412729323305304064_n-77x96.jpg 77w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is kind of shameful that even at times like these, people want to get attention on social media. In their quest to get for likes, retweets and sympathetic responses from the crowd, they would use this girl for their own 5 minutes of fame. The girl is originally from a Facebook post shared by a woman named Portal Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comment section below and stay posted for more news.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/driver-caught-speeding-tells-police-he-did-it-to-avoid-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Driver Caught Speeding Tells Police He Did It To Avoid Coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a solid \u2018source\u2019 and \u2018citation\u2019 is very important when trying to spread a message to others. Otherwise, chances are that your next Whatsapp forward loses all credibility. However, much like our school days, we haven\u2019t learned our lesson. Our answer for everything is to copy\/paste everything, and pretend that no one would know. Something very similar is happening these [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/this-viral-yet-fake-picture-of-a-coronavirus-patient-is-being-used-for-likes-and-retweets\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":257828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1292,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-humor","10":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"Apparently a lot of people have adopted this girl. Please don't do the same.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/feat-covid-daughter-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/feat-covid-daughter-758x463.jpg",758,463,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/feat-covid-daughter.jpg",1348,824,false]},"author_name":"Sher Alam","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","Humor","Social Media"],"title_text":"This Viral Yet Fake Picture of a Coronavirus Patient is Being Used for Likes and Retweets","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,1292,1291&exclude=257817","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257817"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=257817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}