To get a sense of Herman’s stance on COVID, all you have to do is watch the first few seconds of any of his recent shows. I’ve embedded one at the top of this page to make it easy for you. Even as early as June 11 when the show above aired, Herman was kicking off every broadcast by asking people to wash/sanitize their hands, social-distance (when did that become a complex verb?) and yes, wear masks.
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He wore a mask and he told others to wear a mask. On every broadcast. Right at the start.
Now, a lot of people have mentioned that he was photographed at the Tulsa Trump rally without a mask on. That’s true. And from that, a lot of people have claimed it’s an established fact that this is where he contracted the virus. As we’ve discussed before, we don’t know where he contracted, but we do know that he traveled extensively in the week he was diagnosed. He was on planes going between several cities.
It’s not impossible he contracted it at the Tulsa rally. But most of us on his team tend to think it happened on one of the plane trips, or possibly during his stop in Las Vegas. That’s for several reasons, one of which is simply the inherent (and to me at least, obvious) risk involved with being on an airplane these days. Another is the fact that, for all the attention on Herman contracting the virus, we haven’t heard of a major outbreak of Tulsa rally participants who came down with it.
There was quite a bit of difference between his views and the views of whoever was running his twitter account. I think that accounts for some of the confusion. People expect that your tweets are expressing your views, but Herman’s tweets (clearly written by someone else) were anti-mask and Covid-skeptic, so the public reasonably assumed he was, too.
However did you find this article? I cannot bring up Herman Cain’s website after ten pages of scrolling. I tried 3 times.
What’s that old saying? - “A lie travels half-way around the world before the truth gets its pants on,” or something like that. The gleeful lies about Cain were broadcast around the world, but only a few conservatives will see this rebuttal from people who knew and worked with him.
I liked Cain.
And yes, those that opposes you will often create arguments that make it appear you meant something which you never meant nor really said. They take your words and twist them, taking the reader or listener down a different path than intended, i.e. the flow of logic is used to lead someone to a different conclusion than the original speaker or writer intended.
Examples:
No one reasonable denies there is a virus out there, whatever we want to call it. The difference is in how we see government should react to it.
No one reasonable is saying that this virus is exactly the flu, but like the flu they see that this virus will “run it’s course” and not until a certain percentage have been exposed will it go away (regardless of what we do - not having a vaccine in hand).
No one reasonable is saying that this virus isn’t killing a lot of people, but some questioned (and rightfully so, since the numbers are now being adjusted downward) the extremely high mortality rates originally reported.
No one reasonable is saying that NY or others needed help with ventilators or other equipment, but some did question if the number of 30,000 ventilators is accurate.
Given the media hype, the political component to this issue, the grand standing my some experts and institutions, like so many other issues, a flag gets stuck into the ground, and then people rally around that flag. They are for global warming, for the withdraw of troops from Iraq, for a ban on DDT, and it’s less an argument of reason and more of ideology and which camp we find ourselves standing in. Objective thought goes out the window, and those that oppose our position (the other flag) become the enemy or we need to discredit them.