Political Hack Bill Mitchell has gone on a Twitter tear that amply demonstrates why I call basic Conservatives the Suicide Cult.
The above may not be the platonic ideal of a Boomerpost, but it’s certainly in the running.
Submitted for your consideration: one of Bill’s “Scary Computers”
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| Corona-chan world tour: Now on 6 continents! |
As for the stats Bill cites to prove the virus is “all hype”, the official numbers are still 10x higher than the total infections SARS managed to rack up in twice the time. They’re also based on trusting the Chinese government, who admitted of their own infection classification methods that they were, “doing it wrong”.
Which goes a long way toward explaining why China has imposed the biggest quarantine in history.
The motive behind Mitchell’s and many other Conservative talking heads’ potentially deadly disinfo campaign reveals itself in this tweet:
Remember that tweet the next time you hear establishment Conservatives accusing the Left of politicizing everything. These partisan grifters can’t see past their own bow ties to the clear and present threat waltzing through our wide open borders.
As always, Conservatives’ fixation on economics sets them up to be blindsided by reality.
Their ostriching is understandable. A major economic panic could hurt Trump’s reelection chances. But when you ignore a problem in the hope it’ll go away, the problem usually has other plans.
Eventually, the widening gulf between Conservitard fantasy land and the real world starts to look downright psychotic.
To sum up Bill’s take on the corona virus pandemic: “It’s no big deal, bro! French fries are deadlier than Corona-chan! China quarantined tens of millions of people to gaslight Wall Street into tanking the Trump economy! Also, Iran’s leaders breaking out in fever sweat on live TV is a nefarious plot to harm the US by *unintelligible mumbling into hand*
Thankfully, most people are too smart to fall for Mitchell’s unctuous politicking. Ironically, if he and his slimy ilk did succeed in lulling Americans into inaction, their efforts would backfire colossally as the virus sidelined a good swath of Trump’s Baby Boomer base.
Contra the Bill Mitchells of the world, the prudent course of action is to assume the official numbers are bogus and take reasonable precautions. Even if the whole outbreak blows over, you’ll have supplies on hand to deal with a future crisis.
And as our leaders’ inept bungling of the corona virus situation indicates, another crisis may not be far off.
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