US Cases: 7,244,316*
US Deaths: 199,776*
Worldwide Cases: 34,200,662*
Worldwide Deaths: 1,021,709*
* - Numbers are a lower bound. True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration
The pandemic isn't all Trump's fault, but he sure deserves the lion's share of the blame. And that's not just my opinion:
Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump.That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world. Mentions of Mr. Trump made up nearly 38 percent of the overall “misinformation conversation,” making the president the largest driver of the “infodemic” — falsehoods involving the pandemic.The study, to be released Thursday, is the first comprehensive examination of coronavirus misinformation in traditional and online media.“The biggest surprise was that the president of the United States was the single largest driver of misinformation around Covid,” said Sarah Evanega, the director of the Cornell Alliance for Science and the study’s lead author. “That’s concerning in that there are real-world dire health implications.”
And for some reason, there's a cliche running around in my head about chickens and where they like to roost:
POTUS and FLOTUS are both in quarantine. pic.twitter.com/F9ycE0jf8m
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) October 2, 2020
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