So, for those who don’t follow news and commentary all THAT closely, and who aren’t all THAT familiar with Google, đ Max Boot is a (formerly? currently?) conservative author and columnist whose parents emigrated from Russia with him when he was 7 years old.
«A Pew Research Center survey makes clear the extent of the problem. Among those who get their election news primarily from Fox âNews,â 86 percent say Trump is delivering the âcompletely rightâ or âmostly rightâ message about the pandemic, 78 percent that âthe U.S. has controlled the outbreak as much as it could haveâ and 61 percent that Trump and his administration get the facts right about the coronavirus âalmost allâ or âmost of the time.â Perhaps the most disturbing finding of all: 39 percent of Fox News viewers say that QAnon â an insane conspiracy theory that posits that Trumpâs opponents are satanic child-molesters â is âsomewhat goodâ or âvery goodâ for the country.
Iâm sorry, these are not issues on which rational people can legitimately disagree. Trumpâs covid-19 message â that, as he said Saturday, âit is disappearingâ â is objectively false. In the past week, daily confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States have increased by 13.3 percent and hospitalizations by 9.8 percent. Trumpâs claims to the contrary, we have done far worse during the pandemic than most wealthy countries. If we had the same death rate as Canada, 132,000 victims of covid-19 would still be alive. And it should go without saying that QAnon, whose adherents have been linked to numerous acts of violence, is a bane, not a boon.»
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