DailyBeast: Trump's Favorite COVID Adviser Goes on Kremlin-Backed RT to Blast Lockdowns as 'Epic Fai

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-covid-19-adviser-scott-atlas-goes-on-kremlin-funded-rt-to-blast-lockdowns

Trump’s Favorite COVID Adviser Goes on Kremlin-Backed RT to Blast Lockdowns as ‘Epic Failure’

Allison Quinn
News Editor
Published Nov. 01, 2020 12:05AM ET

Trump’s favorite COVID-19 adviser appeared on Russia’s state-controlled RT network late Saturday to declare the coronavirus pandemic mostly under control and insist that it’s actually lockdowns that are “killing people.”

Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist, was introduced on RT’s Going Underground as “one of the only two men the U.S. president apparently listens to on the pandemic.

He conceded that COVID-19 has been “deadly” and stressed that “there’s no understating that.” But he went on to state that many lives had also been “lost from the policy of shutdowns,” which he described as an “epic failure of public policy by people who refuse to accept they were wrong.”

“The public health leadership… They’re killing people with their fear-inducing shutdown policies,” he said, without specifying who he was referring to. Contrary to his claims, studies have actually shown that tens of thousands of lives could have been saved with earlier lockdowns.

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Since when do American officials pander to russian media?

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1. Since trump became president

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2. "Since when do American officials pander to russian media?"

Sadly, it's not just the right. Glenn Greenwald and Jill Stein both seem rather fond of it and it was a pretty common source here on DU in the 2016 campaign. Seems that most people have figured out that it's Russian propaganda, though it always was. It's not exactly a secret.