Local news, what’s left of it, has been great. Hard, sad stories, uplifting tales, appeals to community, Blitz spirit. I work on a local paper and couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve done.
On the other hand, though: The big national news media, a purveyor of blather and bile in the best of times, have spent the last month wearing a caul of rotten blubber. But, you say, things have been horrid. Historically horrid. The news from overtaxed hospitals is miserable; the economic toll is harrowing. True. But an occasional piece of good news would be nice. A little sliver of chocolate to go with the cold, lumpy gruel. Instead, we get stories like this from Business Insider:
“Americans are driving less because of the coronavirus. That’s hurting red-light camera revenue.”
Boo and/or hoo.
At least the story didn’t blame Trump, but everyone knows that’s his fault too, right? We know that if President Obama had heard reports in December that someone in Wuhan had a hacking cough, he would have stood up, a steely glint in his eyes, pushed a button, rushed toward a secret panel in the Oval Office as it opened to reveal a fireman’s pole, and slid down to the Batcave to personally make a vaccine. He was just that good.
Instead, we have President Trump, who, if you believe the chattering class, decided that mass death was a crackerjack reelection strategy, threw himself into the exquisitely lubricated machinery of the public-health establishment to prevent the CDC from doing anything, time-traveled to exhaust the supplies not replenished by the previous administration, and used Jedi mind tricks to get Democratic officials to encourage people to go to public festivals.
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See Also:
(1) Coronavirus: WHO Director Has a Long History of Cover-Ups
(2) Enough: Heartlanders Cry Foul on Democrat Vote By Mail Scheme
(3) Tedros Accused of ‘Covering Up Epidemics’ Before Becoming W.H.O. Chief
(4) Tucker Unveils China’s ‘Unremitting Propaganda War’ That Has Taken Place for Years
(5) After Repeated Failures, It’s Time To Permanently Dump Epidemic Models
