I’m wondering what the media and all these people bashing Trump about Covid wanted him to do? I mean his response wasn’t perfect but good grief the fear porn was off the charts. I remember when I saw the death rate I was shocked that the media reported it like a zombie apocalypse. If Biden wins I’m thinking it will get downplayed or he institutes a lock down. I can see my risk and adjust while living mr life. Not sure what people want.
With Obama I had never seen the media give someone such fawning coverage and Trump is the opposite. Without Covid he wins easily but the media succeeded in scaring people for a virus with a 99.9% survival rate.
usually when i see the media give someone too much fawning praise, or attacks something too much i get instantly suspicious. even when i was young i thought it strange the amount of praise Obama got before he even did anything. . Same thing with Jacinda Arden.
Trump won't do as he's told by the media.
Harris, if she wins (I'm not seriously entertaining the thought of it being a Biden presidency for more than a month or two) will follow orders, so of course they want her at the helm.
I mean, sure, they need Trump for their ratings, but with Harris at the helm, I guess they're assuming they can pull a Trudeau and just get state funding instead.
The attacks on Trump turns into attacks on conservatives.
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Recall the fish feeding hysteria with Shinzo Abe a few years ago. Despite Trump tossing the feed in a similar way Abe did, oh, the articles wailing about how the fish will overeat and explode-die
It doesn't matter how Trump responded to the Wuhan flu; it's wrong, because IT WAS HER TURN. Too soft? Uncaring. Too hard? We told you he was a fascist! Balls deep in the science side? Heh, this idiot thinks that shit will actually work! Gets the coof himself and dies? Why couldn't he have snorted anthrax in the 90s?
I guess it means that all the hell we went through for the last 8 mos wasn't draconian enough?
If Biden wins, my gut says the media will start downplaying the risk and advocate to a return to normalcy
Yeah, I think Biden will come out with some worse decrees like national mask mandate and/or lockdown. Compliance will be no more than now. Media will show no dissent and perfect compliance, and in a few weeks the virus magically disappears and Biden is hailed as a hero.
I dont even think they'll wait that long.
During the Reagan/Bush years, the media kept fearmongering about a growing homeless epidemic. As soon as Clinton got elected, the media simply stopped talking about it. He didn't do anything to fix it.
That may be true too, I was going under a presumption that maybe he wants some extra points so they will make him mandate some virus things so it's clear that he "saved" us.
Its possible, but I think some D corporate donors like Disney are desperate to get the virus behind us. And will want return to normalcy sooner rather than later
That's exactly what is going to happen. They will keep the panic up through January, and then stuff will start to get better "because of Biden".
If Europe is any indication the media and politicians are just going to keep feeding off each other getting ever more hysterical.
Still plenty of outrage to be had by attacking those who oppose lockdowns and smear them as deranged conspiracy theorists and Enemies of Science(TM).
Until one day when Science(TM) changes its decree on COVID and all those people will fall in line like the sheep they are.
The funny thing is that if you adjust by population, the USA isn't doing that bad, I mean, in Argentina we have similar numbers adjusted by population, a bit less, but keep in mind that we're 45 million people, we have been in lockdown since March (We're getting out of it next week I think) and we test very little compared to other countries, so the amount of cases is not very reliable. We have seen that lockdowns don't make it dissappear, but I think a lot of people like the idea of it because they stay at home getting paid while being able to act morally superior to those grandma killers who want to work because otherwise they'll starve.
Last I checked the US is only looking "bad" because of a couple of Dem-run cities like Detroit and mainly New York.
Didn't New York put covid patients in elderly care centers? Oh, let's expose the people who have the most risk to the virus, what could possibly go wrong...
Yep. And Michigan, and I think a couple of other Dem controlled states/cities.
They all built multi million dollar temporary hospitals that barely saw any patients.
New York had that hospital ship and rather than send elderly patients there, Cuomo sent them to nursing homes.
If Trump did that they'd lose their fucking minds, but instead we don't hear a peep about it from the same people who claim Trump is responsible for 200k+ deaths.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California. All of those states have nursing homes accounting for 50% of their staates deaths, with Pennsylvania being 70%.
The hospital ship was in new york harbor for a month, had 1000 beds for non-covid related treatments, saw so few patients it converted to treat covid patients and still left the city after treating about 200 patients. In a month. The hospital ship sent to LA had a sinilar outcome
It didn't matter what he did. They constantly moved the goalposts.
First they cried about Trump not letting the experts speak, but he was giving multi hour long press conferences every day with Fauci and that bitch. The media simply chose to focus on what Trump was saying and they'd barely give air time to the experts they claimed they needed to hear from.
Then they complained that we weren't testing enough people. Once we quickly ramped up testing and started doing more tests than any other country by far, they shifted to focus exclusively on total death count. (never mentioning population size, death rates, etc.)
Then in mid-June, blue states decided that masks were necessary. Trump didn't immediately support mask mandates and they crucified him for that.
By that point, we already had 6 figure Covid deaths but the media said, "if only Trump would have worn a mask we could have avoided most of these deaths!"
Even if Trump came out first and pushed for mask mandates they would have used that against him.
They didn't "want" him to do anything. They were just there to react negatively to everything he did no matter what it was.
They didn't "want him to do" anything. They already know that there's not really anything that anyone can do to make any difference here. The virus/pandemic is going to run its course, and it's going to go away. It's what always happens. What they did want to do was to use this crisis as a way to win the election. They whipped the country into a panic, pushed for lockdowns that destroyed Trump's one crown jewel - the good economy - and then dragged those lockdowns out for so long that it left everyone absolutely miserable. Miserable people are willing to vote for "change". They got exactly what they wanted, exactly when they needed it. The media is the despicable.
They were going to complain either way. If he was as draconian as theybsay he should have been, theybwould have been all “See! See! He is truly the fascist we’ve been warning you about fornall these years!” With maybe another round of impeachment hearings