The Great COVID Lie
By: Ben Shapiro
The great democrat covid lie is being opposed and resisted. Wuhan virus is a Biden election tool and a progressives economic re organizational tool. It’s also a tool for control freaks and karens who want control over and to be able to dictate to others their economic freedom, individual rights, and religious liberty. The virus is almost a religion to those using it as a weapon against other Americans.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Until COVID-19 hit, President Donald Trump was on a glide path to reelection. On domestic policy, Trump's tax and regulatory cuts spurred the economy to heights unseen in 50 years; his Department of Education cracked down on the star-chamber courts applied on college campuses in cases of alleged sexual misconduct; he has appointed scores of well-qualified constitutionalist judges, including three Supreme Court justices. On foreign policy, Trump is the first president of my lifetime not to enter any foreign wars; he has brokered historic peace deals in the Middle East between Israel and Arab countries; he has stood up to Chinese predations in unprecedented ways.
If this election had been held in February, Trump likely would have won. And he likely would have won rather easily. That's because Trump's often-terrible rhetoric would have taken a back seat to his actions, and Americans' pessimism about Trump's character would have taken a back seat to their optimism about his agenda.
Then COVID hit.
The economy, thanks in large part to overwrought lockdown policies, collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died. And Trump's rhetoric blunders took on renewed seriousness as Americans looked for steady leadership and instead found the usual Trumpian stew of bloviation and exaggeration and ire.
COVID has become the Democrats' chief electioneering ploy. Their argument is patently wrong and immoral. It is an argument repeated ad nauseum by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as their allies in the media. The argument, expressed by Biden, is this: "220,000 Americans dead ... Anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America."
But, of course, Trump isn't responsible for those deaths. Trump should have spoken sooner about wearing masks; he should have acted with more alacrity in developing testing. But COVID has spread throughout the world, killing hundreds of thousands, and is now spreading nearly unchecked throughout Europe, where lockdowns and masking have been prevalent for months. In fact, Democratic governors praised Trump for giving them the ventilators and personal protective equipment they sought; the White House's Operation Warp Speed has accelerated the development of a vaccine in historically unprecedented ways. The hardest-hit states in terms of death per millions were nearly all states with governors who did not follow Trump's preferred anti-lockdown policies.
Just as important, Democrats have never provided an alternative plan with regard to COVID. Biden's stated plan -- to accelerate a vaccine, to socially distance, to mask more, to create local authority for targeted lockdowns -- is no different from Trump's. Biden was holding packed rallies into early March. Democrats have repeatedly condoned or celebrated massive rallies of millions of people during the pandemic, so long as those rallies meet with their political approval.
The narrative that Trump is responsible for COVID'S death toll, then, is a religious argument, not a factual one. It is reliant on a perverse view of the universe by which Trump is responsible for all evil, a miasmatic orange Satan haunting the land. And, the theory goes, if Trump is excised, COVID will be controlled by someone with a steadier hand.
That's nonsense. The pandemic will continue on Nov. 4, no matter who is elected. But so long as Trump is labeled the true scourge, rather than COVID, Trump will pay the political price. And the so-called Party of Science will continue to promote that anti-scientific lie all the way up through Election Day.
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Click bait. The "Great Covid Lie" is and has always been the NY flim flam man going by the moniker of Donald J. Trump.
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COVID has spread throughout the world, killing hundreds of thousands, and is now spreading nearly unchecked throughout Europe, where lockdowns and masking have been prevalent for months.
Yet somehow Trump is uniquely to blame...
Trump is uniquely to blame for what is happening the the US. We should have done better than the other western industrial nations. Our population density is less than a third that of Europe. We had 3 weeks of additional time to respond. Europeans use public transit at much higher rates that we do. We have virtually unlimited money, the best scientists and epidemiologists, and a manufacturing capability second to none. Yet, we know from the Woodward interview that Trump knew in early February that COVID-19 was very contagious and had a high mortality rate, and he lied about it until mid-March.
He then politicized every aspect of fighting COVID-19. He called it a Democratic hoax. He refused to lead with coordinating, manufacturing, and distributing PPE. He politicized masking, social distancing, and testing — the most effective tools we have to limit the spread of the disease. His administration pushed for shutdowns, while he simultaneously tweeted for resistance to shutdowns. He has never led, he abdicated all responsibility for dealing with this disease and operated only to serve his own interests.
You can be guaranteed that ANY other candidate, republican or democrat, who ran in the 2016 primaries would have done better than Trump. NONE would not have lied about the disease. NONE would have politicized it. We were and are fucked by having the worst possible example of a human being for a president.
Ben Shapiro, the author of this absurd article, should be ashamed of himself.
His biggest "crime" is he tries to make it sound like a previously triumphant Trump is being framed.
First of all , Trump was not on an easy path to re-election in February. The no good sonofabitch had just been impeached for trying to blackmail the leader of another country into investigating Trump's election opponent.
Or did you forget about that MAGA? Ben Shapiro , in his article DOES NOT EVEN MENTION THAT, but it would have been a key feature of any re-election campaign. Trump has five years of fuckups and lies and cheating to answer for, not 5 months. One could easily make a list of 100 things Trump has done which make him unfit for office. Most of it has been passed over in the campaign because of the covid issues.
Locked kids in cages at the border, separating some of them permanently from their parents.
Called white supremacists "fine people" after Charlottesville
Repeatedly sided with Putin against American intelligence agencies
Instituted a tax cut that gave hundreds of billions of dollars to the already wealthy
Promised a new health care plan for the nation for four years , producing nothing
Removed the U.S. from the Paris climate change accords
Sent Giuliani to Ukraine to investigate his election opponent
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These only scratch the surface of what would have been used to oppose a second term for Trump had covid never happened. To say that Trump would have easily won re-election until the Democrats supposedly sabotaged him on covid is to tell the big lie.
Now Trump is set to go down in flames and Ben Shapiro and the rest of the right wing liars are looking to sabotage a new administration by presenting these fabrications.
Dr. Fauci said today that IF we had started fighting the covid with mitigating measures such as social distancing and closing all businesses for a short period of time , across the country, we would be on the other end of it by now. As we know from the Woodward interview with Trump audios, Trump wasnt going to have any part of that. He was afraid than any mitigation of the coronavirus would hurt the stockmarket, and thus perhaps hurt his chances for re-election.
None of that is in Ben Shapiro's article either.
I think Trump has done some good things in response to the virus, but he also could have done some things differently that likely would have resulted in fewer deaths. In fact, he could still do them now and save lives in the future.
For example, he could have directed the Surgeon General (quick: without looking, do you even know who that is? Do you think 99 out of 100 Americans could name him?) to be the point person in communicating important guidance on the virus to the American people. The Surgeon General (his name is Dr. Jerome Adams) should be on every major TV network 10 times a day telling people how the virus spreads, urging them to wear masks (and wear them correctly), reminding them to social distance, wash their hands, and so on. He should be making YouTube videos doing the same thing, including little 6 or 10 second ads (maybe showing him putting on a mask the right way) that could appear at the beginnings of other people's videos.
Remember when C. Everett Koop used popular media to turn American sentiment against smoking? When he educated America about AIDS in a way that was educational and non-judgmental? That approach was powerful and effective.
That strategy on steroids could be happening right now. I think it would save lives. How many? I couldn't guess, but I am confident it would save some lives.
You don't need a nationwide mask mandate like Biden suggested. You just need to keep bugging people about it and find a way to make it a social imperative - cool, even.