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S.E. TN Liberal

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Fri Apr 3, 2020, 02:27 AM Apr 2020

Right wing media and the dance around the trumpvirus timeline [View all]

"...On Feb. 27, two days after the first reported case of the coronavirus spreading inside a community in the United States, Candace Owens was underwhelmed. “Now we’re all going to die from Coronavirus,” she wrote sarcastically to her two million Twitter followers, blaming a “doomsday cult” of liberal paranoia for the growing anxiety over the outbreak.

One month later, on the day the United States reached the grim milestone of having more documented coronavirus cases than anywhere in the world, Ms. Owens — a conservative commentator whom President Trump has called “a real star” — was back at it, offering what she said was “a little perspective” on the 1,000 American deaths so far. “The 2009 swine flu infected 1.4 Billion people around the world, and killed 575,000 people,” she wrote. “There was no media panic, and societies did not shut down.”..."

Source: https://trumpvirus.org/right-wing-media-and-the-dance-around-trumps-coronavirus-timeline/

The Cult of Stupidly runs at full throttle, non-stop.

Bold mine...

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