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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives' Coronavirus Denial Is Going to Get People Killed
I guess the coronavirus confirmed man in Kentucky may have been listening to too much Trump, and was happy to go about spreading the virus.
https://newrepublic.com/article/156727/conservatives-coronavirus-denial-going-get-people-killed
Last week, at long last, the United States woke up to the threat of a global pandemic. The stock market tanked, as investors began to doubt the Trump administrations ability to handle the coronavirus. Sales of masks soared as cities across the country began to report new cases. On Saturday, Washington state reported the first American fatality, with five more following over the next two days.
Though not known for its sober, measured approach to current events, the conservative media has been clear in its response: Everything is fine.
Rush Limbaugh, who was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, told his audience of millions that the virus is really just the common cold. He claimed that it was being overhyped by the director of the National Center of Immunizationwho just happens to be the sister of former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a bad guy in the world of conservative infotainment, thanks to his role in the Mueller investigationto damage the president.
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The politicization of coronavirus on the right is creating a hazardous situation, in which Fox News viewers and Rush Limbaugh listeners are being fed a potentially deadly narrative. The right has convinced its audience that the numerous scandals and crises of the Trump era are really nothingburgers, and that the presidents enemies will stop at nothing to cost him the second term that he deserves. Theyll even create a pandemic and cause a depression! But the decision to make coronavirus a political crisis first, an economic crisis second, and a public health crisis third is creating an environment in which Fox News viewerswho are disproportionately oldermay ignore the warnings of public health officials.
Though not known for its sober, measured approach to current events, the conservative media has been clear in its response: Everything is fine.
Rush Limbaugh, who was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, told his audience of millions that the virus is really just the common cold. He claimed that it was being overhyped by the director of the National Center of Immunizationwho just happens to be the sister of former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a bad guy in the world of conservative infotainment, thanks to his role in the Mueller investigationto damage the president.
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The politicization of coronavirus on the right is creating a hazardous situation, in which Fox News viewers and Rush Limbaugh listeners are being fed a potentially deadly narrative. The right has convinced its audience that the numerous scandals and crises of the Trump era are really nothingburgers, and that the presidents enemies will stop at nothing to cost him the second term that he deserves. Theyll even create a pandemic and cause a depression! But the decision to make coronavirus a political crisis first, an economic crisis second, and a public health crisis third is creating an environment in which Fox News viewerswho are disproportionately oldermay ignore the warnings of public health officials.
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Conservatives' Coronavirus Denial Is Going to Get People Killed (Original Post)
TomCADem
Mar 2020
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Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)1. I know I'm supposed to feel badly for them.
But I dont. I feel badly for the innocent people those dumbasses will infect but their ignorance has hurt 1,000s. That their stupidity hurts them is totally fitting.
gordianot
(15,244 posts)2. I promise in most cases from invoking "good riddance".
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)3. I just read the comments of a bunch of these idiot sheeple
on a page that informed us that the state was closing schools. I guess if teachers had just taught kids how to wash their hands we wouldnt need to close schools. Also, this is all Obamas fault. They went silent when asked to explain why.