The Bye Line: Just Like The 1980s AIDS Crisis, COVID Is Not "Overhyped" - The Sunday Show - MSNBC

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In this week’s Bye Line, Jonathan Capehart responds to Sen. Ron Johnson’s remarks that Dr. Fauci “overhyped” the 1980s AIDS crisis and is doing the same with Covid. “AIDS wasn’t ‘overhyped’. It was ignored," Jonathan said. "Donald Trump wanted us to believe that coronavirus was overhyped. He tried to get us to ignore it... and by the eve of his blessed departure from the presidency, 400,000 Americans had died from COVID." Aired on 12/05/2021.

[NJCher]

1. Hah!

Johnson can’t even get basic facts straight. Fauci overhyping aids—how ludicrous.

Anyone alive and sentient at that time remembers how aids was ignored by the media.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I change my mind periodically who is the most offensive senator, but it's so often Ron Johnson

And even I remember how cases of AIDs were treated by the media, and it's not like I followed much news at that point in my life, but it was common knowledge.

[George II]

3. 700,000 deaths in about 18 months is not "overhyped"! I try to catch "Bye Line" every week.