Note that the Covid panic has overshadowed all kinds of political talk in the last two months. It seems the headlines are Covid, and barely politics at all.
Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The COVID-19 Lockdowns Going?
Quote from: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/why-does-mainstream-media-seem-so-desperate-keep-covid-19-lockdowns-going
Something doesn't smell right. The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day has been declining, as has the number of deaths. This is great news, and we should be hoping that the falling numbers are a sign that the pandemic is beginning to subside. But the mainstream media has been relentlessly pumping out stories that warn of "disaster" if the lockdowns are lifted "too soon". According to the mainstream media, by "ignoring science" we are inviting a "second wave" which will be even deadlier than the first one. And it is certainly true that as we end the lockdowns more people will get exposed to COVID-19, but right now I do not know of a single hospital in the entire country that is currently being overwhelmed by this pandemic. As long as our hospitals can handle it, there is no reason to continue the lockdowns.
But the mainstream media seems desperate to keep the lockdowns going, and so they keep telling us that we are "inviting disaster" by ending them. For example, the following comes from a New York Times article that was just published entitled "As States Rush to Reopen, Scientists Fear a Coronavirus Comeback"…
Millions of working people and small-business owners who cannot earn money while sheltering at home are facing economic ruin. So dozens of states, seeking to ease the pain, are coming out of lockdown.
Most have not met even minimal criteria for doing so safely, and some are reopening even as coronavirus cases rise, inviting disaster. The much-feared "second wave" of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say, and instead may become a storm of wavelets breaking unpredictably across the country.
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Could it be possible that they are trying to hurt President Trump politically? Without a doubt, Trump’s poll numbers have suffered during the lockdowns, and if the U.S. economy does not bounce back by November it is certainly going to be tough for him to win.
But the mainstream media seems desperate to keep the lockdowns going, and so they keep telling us that we are "inviting disaster" by ending them. For example, the following comes from a New York Times article that was just published entitled "As States Rush to Reopen, Scientists Fear a Coronavirus Comeback"…
Millions of working people and small-business owners who cannot earn money while sheltering at home are facing economic ruin. So dozens of states, seeking to ease the pain, are coming out of lockdown.
Most have not met even minimal criteria for doing so safely, and some are reopening even as coronavirus cases rise, inviting disaster. The much-feared "second wave" of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say, and instead may become a storm of wavelets breaking unpredictably across the country.
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Could it be possible that they are trying to hurt President Trump politically? Without a doubt, Trump’s poll numbers have suffered during the lockdowns, and if the U.S. economy does not bounce back by November it is certainly going to be tough for him to win.
