How Shitstain Is Turning "Public Health Official" Into "Climate Scientist" In Public Opinion
COVID Update May 8: The political strategy of Trump turning “public health official” into the equivalent of “climate scientist” is underway. 1/
The view from Trump advisors not directly involved in the rising death toll is that the “CDC” (i.e., EPA) wants to burden Trump’s chances of driving economic activity in the 8 states he cares about.2/
The effort to discredit these folks is on. With the same playbook used in climate science.
-First, CDC guidelines are being ignored.
-Now expect to hear more from “counter-scientists”, discrediting the “doom and gloom” people who want to keep the economy down. 3/
Anyone with halfway decent credentials who is willing to say that economies should open now will have an opportunity to make a new career as a cable pundit. 4/
The idea will be to drive the networks, Sunday shows, news publications & cable into the “both sides equal time” trap. Chris Christie was one effort at this but I assume they can do better. 5/
They need surrogates I guess because there’s only so many ways to say “it’s ok for some people to die” without sounding like an asshole. 6/
Their trick will then be to make it appear that roughly half the smart people are saying “stay closed” but the other half are saying “stay open.”
So what to do? 7/
Meanwhile Trump himself will get a PCR test everyday I’m guessing. 8/
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