Greta Thunberg added to CNN’s expert coronavirus panel, Twitter erupts

nypost.com ^ | 5/13/2020 | Hannah Sparks

[rktman]

An upcoming CNN town hall on the coronavirus pandemic will feature 17-year-old Greta Thunberg alongside a panel of medical experts.

The program, “Coronavirus Facts and Fears,” also includes CNN broadcaster Sanjay Gupta, 50, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, 71, and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Richard Besser, 60. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, 52, will host alongside Gupta.

However, social media watchdogs are foaming at the mouth over the choice to place a teen climate activist on a panel with public health experts.

“What place does Greta Thunberg have in this town hall?” asks Twitter rabble-rouser Yashar Ali to his 618,000 followers. His rhetorical question was liked by more than 12,000 since this morning.

Her name is a top trending term on Twitter, with some 30,000 mentions on the platform in just a few hours.

In a follow-up tweet, Ali clarified his rhetorical tweet with an explanation: “I understand that but this is a panel of top health experts and administrators. A climate activist would be better suited on a different panel. She’s not a climate scientist. It’s a matter of placement.”

[Grampa Dave]

Greta Thunberg added to CNN’s expert coronavirus panel.

She/it will be perfect. Please read my tagline re CCN and other operatives of the ChiComs/PRC/CDCNN.

[SkyDancer]

Get famous somehow then become an expert on something you know nothing about.

[mountainlion]

Well wasn’t she a ...

Still still is. After much drugs and adrenalcdrome you can be anything you can imagine.

[rktman]

Hey now. Saw that pedo joe has picked 'aoc' to lead the climate team for him after the YUGE win in Nov. Hey pedo joe, phu cough.😂

[rktman]

Saw that yesterday. NOW what?😵💥🔥💀

[Batman11]

Scoldilocks just needs to STFU.

[Still Thinking]

OMG, if she had any value in GW (which she did not), it was symbolic, not because she knew anything about it. Now her GW ignorance qualifies her to be loudly and publicly ignorant about Corona??

[outofsalt]

David Hogg must have been busy...

[rktman]

With both hands.😁

[Paladin2]

Blame gorebal warning on the fish in the oceans?

[SMARTY]

Right- What organization on earth is complete without at least ONE unqualified, puerile, loudmouth female media-hog??

[17th Miss Regt]

Greta will crack up completely by age 21. She will probably do herself in by 25.

[jerod]

[basalt]

i believe the correct term is NUKULAR FIZZYIST...

[dead]

Wow, that’s fantastic! Hope he finds it funny!

[Gay State Conservative]

I have a nephew who has Aspberger's Syndrome. He's as smart as all get out...he has been,and is still being,studied by Harvard Medical School researchers (brain scans,etc,etc,etc).

But with all his intelligence,with his photographic memory,he's *absolutely* clueless.He's 30 and has never held a job...he's just too weird to get hired by anyone.

This girl,IMO,is to be pitied. Her handlers are to be cast down into the deepest pits of hell!

[OpusatFR]

Trying to attrack viewers to its Fantasy and Fiction panels.

I wish I were half as good a writer as CNN’s sci-fi guys seem to be.

[Tennessee Nana]

Yea !!! The youngest Brady kid. Runs rings round Greta in smarts...

:)

[polymuser]

LOL LOL!

[Tennessee Nana]

You pisan !!!

She took public transportation !!!