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White House tries to make Biden’s COVID a ‘teachable moment’
The Associated Press ^ | July 22, 2022 | By WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN

Posted on 07/22/2022 7:19:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a year, President Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to defy the odds. When he finally did test positive, the White House was ready. It set out to turn the diagnosis into a “teachable moment” and dispel any notion of a crisis.

It was all part of an administration effort to shift the narrative from a health scare to a display of Biden as the personification of the idea that most Americans can get COVID and recover without too much suffering and disruption if they’ve gotten their shots and taken other important steps to protect themselves.

The message was crafted to alleviate voters’ concerns about Biden’s health — at 79, he’s the oldest person ever to be president. And it was aimed at demonstrating to the country that the pandemic is far less of a threat than it was before Biden took office, thanks to widespread vaccines and new therapeutic drugs.

Conveying that sentiment on Day 1 of Biden’s coronavirus experience virus wasn’t always easy, though.

In a lengthy briefing with reporters, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said repeatedly that the White House had been as transparent as possible about the president’s health.

Dr. Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, said it was good for the White House to send the message that Biden can keep working even after testing positive.

“That shows that it’s business as usual,” Wen said.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; brandon; ccp; china; journalism; media; press; virus; wuhan
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1 posted on 07/22/2022 7:19:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe he should have kept masking up. Surely THAT would have prevented it.


2 posted on 07/22/2022 7:20:55 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The trouble is, they only want to teach about “transgenderism” and “green energy”. Nothing useful or intelligent.


3 posted on 07/22/2022 7:22:28 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m trying really hard not to wish this would blow up in their faces.

If he died from it, it would put them in a world of hurt.

His demise before the mid-point of his term would, I believe really screw up their plans.


4 posted on 07/22/2022 7:23:05 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’d be a great object lesson if he dropped dead. Kamala could say “See? I told you so.”


5 posted on 07/22/2022 7:24:20 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Complete nonsense. There are a fast-growing number of people in this country who recognize now that this Covid-vax-revax-boost-boost-boost stuff is pure nonsense. You vaxxed, double vaxxed, boosted and boosted again sheep are CARRIERS! You’re Typhoid Marys. And you are dying in larger and larger numbers...


6 posted on 07/22/2022 7:24:56 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

yep, the vaxx does not work


7 posted on 07/22/2022 7:25:30 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course, the AP makes this into a pro-Biden piece. How about a story discussing that the “vaccines” don’t appear to be working? How about reporting on Biden’s claim from a year ago that we are facing “a pandemic of the unvaccinated?”


8 posted on 07/22/2022 7:26:39 AM PDT by Restless
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only thing that comes out of the White House these days is reeducation/brainwashing


9 posted on 07/22/2022 7:26:45 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obscuring Brandon’s insistence that the vaccine is totally effective and that the disease is being spread solely by the unvaccinated. For Democrats, someone must be blamed and it’s never them. Because it usually is.


10 posted on 07/22/2022 7:27:04 AM PDT by Spok (Don’t pee down my leg and tell me it’s raining.)
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11 posted on 07/22/2022 7:27:55 AM PDT by David Chase
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Idiot told us repeatedly that getting the ‘vaccines’ would prevent one from getting COVID, along with most of the COVID ‘vaccine’ pushing media, pundits, etc. and ALL OF IT just sank to the bottom of the ocean floor faster than the Titanic with yesterday’s announcement of the Idiot contracting COVID despite having all the ‘vaccine’ shots and boosters to boot.....yeah, a definite ‘teachable moment’................!


12 posted on 07/22/2022 7:27:58 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s called twisting facts. Like claiming that DJTrump was racist for forbidding immigration for “ahithole” countries. Not brown or black countries. “ahithole”.

NYC now being a “ahithole” city has nothing whatsoever to do with its demographics. It is cultural. And, NYC has become a cultural “ahithole”. Are you living there and not part of the rot? Welcome to my world, I live in CaCaLand.


13 posted on 07/22/2022 7:28:57 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Moving the goal posts.

This time last year they were still saying the jab would stop the virus.

Now they’re trying to claim that the jab lessens the severity of the virus.


14 posted on 07/22/2022 7:29:00 AM PDT by OKSooner ("That was then, this is now." - S.E. Hinton, Tulsa, OK)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For two years the left has been overreacting, and demanding draconian measures to stop the spread. Now that Biden has it, all of a sudden it’s hardly an inconvenience.


15 posted on 07/22/2022 7:29:21 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

always thought he would step down 1/21/23 so kommie could serve 10 years

then she opened her mouth

revised plan

biden resigns for health reasons; kommie steps up; the real 2024 candidate is appointed vp

depending how much kommie f’s up she can finish the term or be pushed out so the 2024 candidate can step up

so who is the next obama puppet?


16 posted on 07/22/2022 7:29:39 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

The left is controlled by their green religion. Unfortunately, it doesn’t need to make sense.


17 posted on 07/22/2022 7:30:18 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Flash news: President Biden has tested positive for brain function!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who’s to say he did/does have covid?

I think they just wanted to hide him away for awhile, after the ‘I have cancer’ gaffe.


18 posted on 07/22/2022 7:30:42 AM PDT by simpson96
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Now they’re trying to claim that the jab lessens the severity of the virus.

Again, they DO NOT know this. They are just bullshitting everybody into believing it. One statistic you won't find, is the number of deaths of those that have been vaccinated. It's all a lie.

19 posted on 07/22/2022 7:32:35 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: joshua c
so who is the next obama puppet?

It's a long potential list, pretty much the entire U.S. government, anyone in education, all Dem elected officials countrywide. So the question is, who is electable?

20 posted on 07/22/2022 7:34:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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