The Cover Up Has Begun.

[Initech]

Link to tweet

Fox News is trying to get people killed. And they may succeed.

[FM123]

1. Rupert Murdoch could save lives if he wanted to.

What he wants more is money.

[Botany]

2. Brian Kilmeade vs Anthony Fauci on knowledge of viruses?

R you kidding me?


One is the man who helped to discover the retrovirus (HIV/AIDS) and the other is still surprised how his ‘fridge knows how to turn on the light when it opens or how does toast know to “jump up” when it is ready?

[underpants]

3. I think this is the interview he is referring too. Talk about twisting things around

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/

If that testing shows the virus has slipped into the country in places federal officials don't know about, "we've got a problem," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told USA TODAY's Editorial Board Monday.

Short of that, Fauci says skip the masks unless you are contagious, don't worry about catching anything from Chinese products and certainly don't avoid Chinese people or restaurants.

"Whenever you have the threat of a transmissible infection, there are varying degrees from understandable to outlandish extrapolations of fear," Fauci said.

[Igel]

4. That's how the game's played.

Leave out words like "if" and what follows them.

I was reading a page its host have overlooked, from very early February. Basically saying COVID was lower risk than the flu, just look at the death count so far. It will worry. The official truth is that it's always been billed as a bad bug. (Some have always done so. Some hedged with "if" and "under this condition".

Of course, by that time SARS-CoV-2 was around in the US, people had been missed.

Tweets from news orgs that said it wasn't a problem also have been "updated"--which is to say, overwritten to have always said something different or simply vanished. One, decidedly left of center and widely cited here, had a blurb that the contents of the tweet didn't accurately reflect the current situation. (Which is true of many. "Having a nice time in Hawai'i!" isn't a twitter rules offence just because the next day you got sick or came home.) But the news tweet said something inconvenient for an organization quoting Trump with condemnation for having said the same thing at the same time.

We play the same game with quotes, too. Why use a 10 second sound bite that doesn't say what you want when the 5-second one is bother shorter and perfectly tailored to your needs? Of course, the thing about tailoring is that it's cutting things to fit the customer.

[lettucebe]

5. But aren't they going to kill off a lot of repugs?

How is this a smart strategy for them?