Trump admin working to hide bad numbers. And have the politicians write the reopening guidance.
And there is a book coming out about how FOX news is complicit in aiding Trump's misleading of their viewers.. ‘We don’t really believe all this stuff. We just tell other people to believe it.’
I tried to find information on FOX about the federal government's actions to fight the COVID virus and found little. They are too busy trying to distract people with the Flynn story. Then again if my administration was in charge of headlines like this I would be trying to distract folks also...
And there is a book coming out about how FOX news is complicit in aiding Trump's misleading of their viewers.. ‘We don’t really believe all this stuff. We just tell other people to believe it.’
I tried to find information on FOX about the federal government's actions to fight the COVID virus and found little. They are too busy trying to distract people with the Flynn story. Then again if my administration was in charge of headlines like this I would be trying to distract folks also...
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control said Thursdsay that the death toll in America from coronavirus has risen to 73,297, a jump of almost 2,500 in the past 24 hours."Or like this one...
The unemployment rate soared to 14.7 percent in April. 20.5 million job losses recorded — and the real situation is even worse.Here is an interesting piece regarding what we can expect as we lift the restrictions. I wonder if Trump and FOX can hide a couple of hundred thousand dead Americans at election time. Or if his voters will let him off the hook for his contribution?
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I learned a lot from Richard Nixon: Trump’s latest Fox & Friends interview went strange places The coronavirus pandemic was a passing topic during Trump’s latest hour-long vent session.
"Americans on Friday awoke to the worst jobs report in recorded history, one that showed the unemployment rate surging up to 14.7 percent. The main driver of that, of course, is the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in more than 2,500 Americans dying in a 24-hour period ending late Thursday, pushing the death toll above 76,000, with no end in sight.
Those are huge, interrelated problems that are causing people a lot of pain and anxiety. But President Donald Trump’s nearly hour-long call into Fox & Friends Friday morning was a window into an alternate world where the biggest story going is the Obama-era FBI’s purported bias against Trump, and the interrelated public health and economic crises are minor inconveniences"
Kevin Hassett's Optimistic Line Drawing Exercise
"Trump doesn’t want to own the implications of his choices
We are facing a classic bad political situation where the president has decided what policy he wants to adopt, but has also decided he doesn’t want to explicitly choose a course of action that could get tons of people killed, so he’s tuning out expert analysis.
The White House has, for example, shelved the official CDC guidelines for safely lifting restrictions. That’s because those guidelines say it is only safe for a handful of states to lift restrictions, but Trump’s policy is that they all should.
There is a case to be made for a decision to reopen, but it involves more people getting infected and more people dying. Consequently, Trump has taken to musing about how increasing testing levels might be a mistake because it makes the country “look bad,” while Axios reports that he is on the verge of beginning to publicly claim the official death counts are overstated.
The “cubic model” is of a piece with these tactics, a hope that the basic realities can be wished away or obscured — just where we started when Trump was promising the United States would soon go from 15 cases down to zero and hesitating to allow Covid-19 patients off a cruise ship because it would make the numbers look worse.
After all, if it were genuinely true that death numbers were about to begin plunging and new fatalities would be all but eliminated by mid-May, it would make very little sense to lift restrictions this week. The US could just wait 10 days, achieve total victory, and then open up under uncontroversial circumstances.
The projection validates an early reopening only in the sense of muddying the waters about the actual consequences, rather than validating the decision itself. And since it doesn’t make sense as a matter of logic, it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t make sense mathematically or epidemiologically either."
More lies and deception from Team Trump
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