There’s No Spinning This One
Excerpt: When a president who is known for his ability to spin just about anything goes before the American people and declares, with brutal honesty, “this could be a hell of a bad two weeks,” all naivete and denial should be dispelled. The #FilmYourHospital loons running around the country filming empty parking lots at hospitals, and contending that this is some sort of epic hoax, should stop. (Hospitals with coronavirus patients don’t allow visitors, so you’re not going to see lots of cars in the parking lots.) If you’re the kind of person who thinks every government all around the world would get together to make up or wildly exaggerate the effects of a potentially lethal virus, you can find plenty of videos of the recently deceased at Brooklyn Hospital Center and Maimonides Medical Center and Bergamo, Italy and elsewhere. This is the equivalent of running around the United States in mid-December 1941 and insisting that the Japanese didn’t really bomb Pearl Harbor and that Franklin Roosevelt is trying to trick everyone. And the coronavirus is as deadly to those who think the media is overhyping it as it is to everyone else.
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