The corrupt news media is gearing up for the final four months -- the stretch run in trying to take out Donald Trump.
For over three years, the media jackals have been giving 90 percent negative coverage to the Trumpster. Their raw partisanship, frequent inaccuracies, sensationalism, and utter lack of humility are appalling. Let's put it this way: They're quick to quote "anonymous sources" (made up sources and/or hacks with an ax to grind), but highly reluctant to run corrections when they report laughably inaccurate bullshit (which is often).
There's no doubt in my mind that Coronavirus, the lockdown and its economic damage, plus the riots & mayhem following George Floyd's death on May 25, have lifted their spirits considerably. I repeat: These people don't give a rat's ass how many people suffer or die from COVID-19, have their businesses destroyed, are assaulted or raped, or lose their jobs and face financial ruin --- AS LONG AS TRUMP LOSES HIS RE-ELECTION BID.
So I turn to the question of motive, and how big a factor it is. Let me set this up with an observation on former President Barack Obama and his egregiously misguided foreign policy team. Obama's nuclear deal with Iran involved removing sanctions that had been imposed on the pariah nation, and sending $150 billion in cash to Tehran. So what if we were just releasing Iranian cash that we had been holding onto for decades; the Iranians used that money to fund their terroristic exploits worldwide. The Obama administration definitely had blood on its hands.
The president also agreed to a lax inspection regimen to supposedly monitor Iran's compliance. My question at the time was, are Obama and his people really this naive? Or did he deliberately do it to spite Israel and hurt America in the long run? The latter sounds entirely plausible coming from the Manchurian candidate whose anti-semitism was the world's worst-kept secret.
So that scenario is playing out in my mind as I see repeated overwrought news stories about COVID-19 making a comeback like a raging forest fire. The media gleefully reports on sudden spikes of COVID-19 cases in red states that had less strict lockdowns and re-opened their economies sooner than the rest of the nation.
But context is downplayed or not reported on at all. Of course there will be far more confirmed cases, simply because testing has dramatically increased since the early days of the pandemic. Back in March, under 1 million COVID-19 tests had been performed nationwide. Now, the total is over 32 million, and that figure promises to increase dramatically in the coming weeks.
Having learned hard lessons about the insanity of sending COVID-19 patients to nursing homes and assisted living facilities, thus jeopardizing the most vulnerable among us, our nation is now doing a much better job of protecting seniors than we did a few months ago. But not without a heartbreakingly large number of deaths of senior citizens in states like New York and Michigan due to the ill-advised policies of misguided governors.
A huge portion of the positive test results now involve young people. Many of them are due to the young congregating in bars and at parties (social distancing is impossible for hormone-driven and alcohol-fueled youth looking to score some action). A bar right here in East Lansing, Mich., is now confirmed to have been the source for about 90 COVID-19 cases invovling people who visited the establishment during a 10-day period in mid-June. There's no question that the protest marches and riots of a few weeks ago also contributed to the spread. With that being said, the survival rate for people under age 50 afflicted with COVID-19 is still well above 99 percent.
This is not worth locking down the economy, which is doing grave damage to budgets, commerce and the mental and physical health of millions of people whose jobs were lost and livelihoods destroyed. It's difficult to quantify the extent of domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment, bankruptcy, despair, depression, and suicide that are ravaging the American populace. Many of the strictest lockdown advocates -- power-hungry dictators like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and their lemming-like followers -- have an Asperger-like indifference to the hideous fallout.
The press will continue with the hysterical drumbeat of "a spike in cases" and push out all sorts of panic about the infection rate. But the mortality rate is far more important, and it is declining dramatically. The COVID19 Tracking Project reported Saturday that our nation's daily death toll for June 27 (506) was the lowest since March 21.
Normally, I blame simplistic thinking, limited intellect and an absence of analytical skills / critical thinking among our rotten Fourth Estate. But something tells me they can't be that stupid. More than likely, it's a deliberate attempt to paint Donald Trump and Republican governors in the worst possible light. So typical for the vermin of the press, and unless America wakes up, a potential death blow to our nation's future.
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