I hear you ... but my question is who is she warning? The pool of people taking a fish tank cleaner to prevent them from obtaining a virus they don’t have with the potential options of sheltering in place to further prevent seems like a pretty small crowd.
This seems like ... “well ... $hit ... that was stupid, but I can’t admit I’m this stupid so I’ll just call out a warning”
I’m sure not in her audience.
That said, I completely agree that Trump needs to let Fauci and others handle the medical communication and best practices to prevent ... but Trump always gotta Trump
Who downplayed this virus for months from the very start? It certainly wasn't liberals, or people on the left...
The woman said (in other stories) that she was specifically responding to what she heard Trump say on tv. The issue is not that she misconstrued WHAT Trump said, the issue is that she was LISTENING to Trump in the first place.
When Trump is speaking and Fauci is simultaneously doing a facepalm in the background, what sort of person would be paying attention to what Trump is saying? Answer- the kind of person that would ingest something intended to clear up a bacterial infection in tropical fish...
Whether or not you believe that Fox's assessment of the virus was valid or not, that is not the question. The question is WHO is Fox's audience, and again who would be inclined to believe what Fox or Trump says...??
"As the coronavirus threat intensified in the U.S. in late February and early March, Fox News viewers received different information than Americans who got their news from other sources. Ben Smith, a longtime reporter and editor and the media critic at the New York Times, set out to understand why. His conclusion: Fox anchors consistently downplayed and even denied the existence of the coronavirus, a failure he blamed on Fox chairman Lachlan Murdoch’s laid-back management style, in contrast to the firm hand of longtime chief Roger Ailes, who resigned in 2016.
No one with real power over the big talent was engaged enough with the network's coverage to rein in broadcasters who asserted that the virus was fake, Smith said. He believes the network's coverage of the virus, which is widely seen as a major black eye for Fox, caused unnecessary deaths.
On March 9, when 700-plus American coronavirus cases had been confirmed, Sean Hannity told Fox viewers that political enemies of President Trump were using the virus to “bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.” In an interview Tuesday with the
Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery,” Smith told hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman that Fox didn’t just echo the president, who consistently downplayed the virus, but went even further with comments like Hannity’s, which actually called it fake."
https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...10645d2d8490cbf138b6f5b890b8a0bd&action=click
Do you think this 60 yr old couple in Arizona takes Fish cleaner of their own volition if they don't hear Trump talk about chloroquine as a possible cure??
