Make no mistake, on MSNBC, CNN, and all of the others, Trump PROMISED that everything would be back to normal by Easter. No, that’s no at all what he said. I heard it live. But that’s what they ran with. Your friends, your family members, your co-workers, the other people in the retirement community, you neighbors ... that’s what they are hearing over and over. Trump PROMISED that this would all be over by Easter. A lie gets halfway around the world ...
And the media repeatedly said we’d have 2.2 million deaths in the US. If it’s actually less than 5,000, then Trump is a miracle worker.
It is encouraging to me to realize the old saying about the “lie getting around half the world before truth comes out” is becoming a misnomer with today’s technology. I’m so thankful to watch things live or, better yet, on CSPAN with no narratives, than having to depend on MSM telling me what to think.
That’s OK.
It probably WILL be over by Easter.
In which case, it will be moot whether people think he “promised” that it would be over, vs just expressing the hope that it would be over by then.
It’s the hockey stick curve that has everyone frightened - the exponential growth. The zombie apocalypse predictions where, in a matter of weeks, everyone but a few clusters have turned into a flesh-eating zombie.
I think most of us already know that nothing on that scale is happening. If Italy and China “turned the corner” - that means in a few weeks we will too.
I see it as a list of scenarios arranged from worst case to best case. The alarmists are still saying “it is going to get really bad!” but even that is better than the zombie-like apocalypse they were predicting last week.
Next week they’ll be able to rule out a few more worst case scenarios, and the week after that - I’m betting there will be no more scary exponentiao predictions. Just a declining mortality rate.
That is not to say the virus will be gone, or that there will be no more spread, or no more infection.
I’m just betting that by Easter the scare of it being “the worst ever” will be over - we will know by then that however bad it is, we’ve seen worse.
Then, and only then will it be possible to have a rational conversation about whether we need to shut half the economy down and risk a severe long-term recession, which could be more deadly than the virus itself.