Anyone else notice how many of the news stories about Covid-19 and the Trump administration's response are completely polarized and contradictory? It seems like like many, including some of his harshest critics are actually commending Trump's response. One critic who was reacently clamoring for his impleachment actually said that "he is being the kind of leader that people need" in this situation. Even Ilhan Omar complemented the president on this actions.
But many stories are trying to paint a different picture. So many are claiming he's inept, ignorant, unresponsive, blah, blah, blah. I know from first hand knowledge how misleading those stories are. I work for a company that's at the forefront of this battle, the president has mentioned us by name a few times during his press conferences in the past week. We, among many of our competitors have been working tirelessly to help fight this virus, and our internal communications have made it very clear that the administration is leading this effort and sparing no resource in helping us in this fight.
I read two stories yesterday (that I can't seem to find anymore) that had the same premise, but different conclusions. Both stories claimed that in 2017 the Trump administration was instructed by exiting Obama officials on how to deal with a pandemic. One story was crediting Obama for Trump's success, while the other story claimed that Trump's failure is due to his administration rejecting Obama's instructions. Both stories were very kind to Obama, while being harsh on Trump. Both claimed that Obama's response to the 2011-2012 SARS pandemic was beyond reproach, which I know to be utter bull shit. Obama didn't do shit until 1000 Americans had died from SARS.
It makes me wonder, who stands to benefit from this contradictory, and obviously misleading information? Who stands to gain if the Trump administration is made to look like a bunch of inept, babbling buffoons? The obvious answer is the Democrats, but I don't think that's where it stops.
Who else? Possibly the people who are responsible for the virus in the first place?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-praises-trumps-incredible-response-to-coronavirus-pandemichttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/17/cnns_dana_bash_on_coronavirus_president_trump_is_being_the_kind_of_leader_that_people_need.htmlAn OAN reporter asked Trump about the left wing media outlets repeating the Chinese government propaganda and what he thought about that in his press conference today.
Most of the media was referring to the coronavirus as being originated and/or associated with China until it became a serious problem in most of the world and started overwhelming European health care systems. Having the coronavirus be associated with China has the potential to upend their role in the global economy and community.
A lot of Western companies were willing to look the other way with regards to the theft of IP, and human rights violations because it meant short term profits and lots of money for high level executives. The coronavirus should change that because it will have more than erased those short term profits and in a lot of cases, caused death to many that are close to business executives.
In Italy, in terms of percentage of their population, they are basically going through a 9/11 every day with how many of their people are dying. I think the Chinese realize that no amount of propaganda can account for this and are sending hundreds of doctors and lots of medical equipment to try to mitigate the damage.
