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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis will likely be many, many, many times worse than 9/11 in terms of deaths
and yet Fox News and Trump are acting like it's not much more than an inconvenience. Some projections are suggesting a half a million deaths (vast majority over 80) just in the US which would be 150 times more deadly than 9/11. Had Middle Eastern terrorists spread this virus around instead of it being by accident, can you imagine how over the top Fox and Trump would be right now?
Under The Radar
(3,408 posts)....Trumps takes the credit for decline in social security and Medicare expenses
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Under The Radar
(3,408 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)falls on a grave and the guy calls his widow? Vote by phone maybe?
Under The Radar
(3,408 posts)PSPS
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Skittles
(153,448 posts)THAT tells us EVERYTHING we need to know about FOX FUCKING "NEWS"
Quixote1818
(29,069 posts)durablend
(7,471 posts)They'd be inciting civil war by now
women and POC are held to a much higher standard, absolutely.....Trump is held to NO STANDARDS AT ALL
RockRaven
(15,143 posts)at least if the mortality data to date (which skews heavily towards China's contribution because of their large case load) holds true for the US also.
But MAGAts will go to their graves wheezing "fake news!"
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Over 80 is primarily the Silent Generation, which is the most heavily slanted Republican voting block. The have voted red all their lives due to generational imprinting. Many came of voting age during Eisenhower and his astronomical approval ratings.
Silent Generation is either 1925-1945 or 1928-1945, depending which source you prefer. I normally think of it as 1928-1945 because that's what Pew Research uses.
GOP strategist Mike Murphy said a couple of years ago that Trump's 2016 margin was now dead. He was referring to mortality realities among the Silent Generation.
katmondoo
(6,458 posts)Skittles
(153,448 posts)yes INDEED
mwooldri
(10,307 posts)... are Fox's target audience. The older viewer. and Fox "News" is misinforming them, along with a President who is himself spouting misinformation. A president that they believe.
Once again shows that the best way to be informed about the world is not to watch "Fox News" - you end up knowing more by simply watching no TV news versus watching "Fox News".
Phoenix61
(17,038 posts)All those retirement communities with Fox Snooze on all day telling them not to worry. Disney in the middle of the state still going strong. What could possibly go wrong?
durablend
(7,471 posts)They won't let themselves die because it would make Trump look bad
MineralMan
(146,364 posts)Perspective is needd.
Kermit the Prog
(12 posts)Flu kills 30-50,000 per year every year.
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