re: If the optimism of yesterday is legit, did the media screw themselve with the doomcasting?

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“Better safe than sorry.”

“Still didn’t do enough”

“One life lost is too many”

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"Lets not forget he said 'Grab them by the pussy.'"

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SlowFlowPro

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weren't you melting down yourself for the last 2 weeks? Pot, kettle.

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But presidents tend to be held responsible for high levels of employment and the details sometimes get muddy.

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You’re very good at keeping hope alive with no data to support your beliefs. You’ll hang on. Vaya con Dios.

The media is going to take credit for it and say Democratic governors like Cuomo were the successful ones.

Won’t matter, they’ve handed Trump a major victory with voters once again.

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China kept it's own people in the dark and let them die, then infected the world. But you think a few extra nerds and bureaucrats with the CDC in Beijing could've changed things?

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There was a pandemic playbook that wasn't consulted. We had a pandemic expert on the National Security Council that Bolton axed, saying that pandemics weren't a national security issue. Even as it was, HHS was trying to get Trump's attention on the issue and he interrupted Azar's briefing about COVID to ask when flavored vapes were coming back on the market.

They're going to argue that jobs were shut down that wouldn't have been shut down if we'd had test-and-trace, that we might have ended up more like South Korea than worse than Spain, Italy, and the UK.

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We were left to rely on WHO because we degraded our capacity. Not arguing that this will become mainstream public opinion, but don't be surprised if you see this messaging.

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no i get it. i'm saying if that's the message, it's only going to energize the very political/far left

for the right/middle, it's going to sound like Trump has been right about "globalism" and China all along

you have to imagine what a middle of the road American is like right now. they've been told millions of people may die so if Trump gets that down to 30-50k by November, it's going to seem like a HUGE win. and the only reason why they expected such high death totals was the doomcasting by the media in an attempt to hurt Trump

the WHO argument has the same potential "backfire" effect. i get the argument, but how it plays? i dunno (for those trying to hurt Trump)

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100 - 200 thousand was the number put out by the Presidential Task Force

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Genius strategy!
Just think how good he'll look when it's a fraction of that!
Genius strategy...perfect...it was perfect.

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If the optimism of yesterday is legit, did the media screw themselve with the doomcasting?

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The corrupt, bought-and-paid-for corporate media has absolutely screwed themselves, but will they ever acknowledge that their incessant gloom-and-doom sky screaming was harmful to the country? No, because here's exactly what they will do:

They will seamlessly seque into obsessing over the Pelosi/Schiff/Nadler Oversight Hearings regarding President Trump's "mishandling" of the Covid-19 crisis. Mark my words

PS - And just like clockwork, Benedict Romney will support the endeavour thereby allowing Democrats and the media to falsely claim that the hearings are both legitimate and bipartisan.

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if we'd had test-and-trace

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i get it and the CDC clearly failed

but, as this goes on, SK will become a bigger and bigger outlier.

if this starts to rage in continental Europe in the fall? oh man Trump is going to win bigly

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if we'd had test-and-trace, that we might have ended up more like South Korea

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There is no hypothetical situation where we end up like South Korea.

Our country is different, our people are different, our laws and customs are different.

This is a ridiculous talking point.