The Trump administration's greatest obstacle to sending a clear message on coronavirus may be Trump

[PA Democrat]

Another headline that we WISH was from the Onion:

The Trump administration’s greatest obstacle to sending a clear message on coronavirus may be Trump himself

By Toluse Olorunnipa
March 5, 2020 at 10:08 p.m. EST

As leading public health experts from across the government have tried to provide clear and consistent information about the deadly coronavirus, they have found their messages undercut, drowned out and muddled by President Trump’s push to downplay the outbreak with a mix of optimism, bombast and pseudoscience.

Speaking almost daily to the public about an outbreak that has spread across states and rocked the markets, Trump has promoted his opinions and at times contradicted the public health experts tasked with keeping Americans safe.

The president has repeatedly misstated the number of Americans who have tested positive for the virus and claimed it would “miraculously” disappear in the spring. He has given a false timeline for the development of a vaccine, publicly questioned whether vaccinations for the flu could be used to treat the novel coronavirus and dismissed the World Health Organization’s coronavirus death rate estimate, substituting a much lower figure and citing a “hunch.”

On Wednesday night, Trump made an uncritical reference to people who continue to go to work while infected with the coronavirus — placing himself at odds with doctors who have strongly urged those with even minor symptoms to stay home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-clear-message-obstacle/2020/03/05/4f739414-5efe-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html

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1. May be? I am so sick of the way even the WP and the NYT STILL treat this monster with kid gloves.

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2. drumpf personally stopping an effective message on Coronvirus would be lots more accurate.

So tired of the big media pussyfooting and obstructing the truth of his total ignorance and the huge damage he could be causing to the people of this country through his innate distrust of (smart) scientists because they insist on telling what they see vs. what he wants them to declare for his personal benefit with no thought or caring for those who will get sick or die because of him.