'An impeachable offense may be in the eye of the beholder. But Fox News can’t immunize its viewers against the reality of a highly contagious disease.' EricLevitz writes
Sick sad world. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/Shutterstock Donald Trump has built his formidable career in public life atop one fundamental insight: What passes for reality in American society is far more malleable than most people are inclined to believe.
Faced with this set of facts, a rational administration would be crafting its messaging around the assumptions that things are going to get worse before they get better and therefore it’s best not to set the public’s expectations for how comprehensively their president can’t shield them from harm too high.
“The risk to the American people remains very low,” Trump said on Thursday. “We’ve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum … We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. We could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time.” Mulvaney went on to liken the Wuhan coronavirus to the flu, despite the former’s higher death rate. “The flu kills people,” Mulvaney said. “This is not Ebola. It’s not SARS, it’s not MERS. It’s not a death sentence, it’s not the same as the Ebola crisis.” COVID-19 has already killed more than twice as many people as SARS did.
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