I went through 4 links and the only thing I see is they have a problem with some GOP and media say the virus was being used as a political tool to kill the economy, implement control, impact the election using covid as means to bypass state legislatures and a massive bail out of certain states failed economics, such as pensions.

I thought so. Sometimes I think Catfish will post links that don't actually prove his point on the hope that we won't check them.

^ You obviously did not.

The links i posted may be not the best ones, but if you want others/more/better just google Covid reports and Fox News. Still they are "a bit" more credible compared to Fox.

"A problem with some GOP and media", yes you might say so,
from the links i already posted and that you try to ridicule:


Chicago Tribune:

Sean Hannity used his syndicated talk-radio program Wednesday to share a prediction he had found on Twitter about what is really happening with the coronavirus: It’s a “fraud” by the deep state to spread panic in the populace, manipulate the economy and suppress dissent.
“May be true” Hannity declared to millions of listeners around the country.

“This coronavirus?” Rush Limbaugh asked skeptically during his Wednesday program. “All of this panic is just not warranted.”

The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan told viewers Monday that the worry over coronavirus “is yet another attempt to impeach the president.”


The Guardian:

Fox Business host claims coronavirus is 'yet another attempt to impeach' Trump

Trump himself has been criticised for playing down the severity of the outbreak, for making false claims about the nature of the virus and for politicising the problem – in part by repeatedly claiming his opponents and the media are politicising it.

Trump has repeatedly claimed coronavirus is comparable to or less serious than the common flu – claims rebuffed by public health experts.


New York Times, like in the Chicago Tribune:

Where doctors and scientists see a public health crisis, President Trump and his media allies have seen a political coup afoot.

Mr. Limbaugh has offered clinical advice. Recently he defended his widely criticized comparison of the coronavirus to the common cold and suggested the timing of the coverage of the outbreak raised “a gigantic series of question marks and red flags.”

“It’s a matter of public health. How can these shills face their followers after all the lies and deceit?” asked Michael Savage, the radio host and author who was one of Mr. Trump’s earliest supporters in conservative media and urged him to run for president in 2011.


Vanity Fair:

Fox News’ COVID Denial Hasn’t Aged Well.

When reality caught up with them and coronavirus deaths began skyrocketing in late spring, they started shifting away from writing off early warnings about the pandemic as an attempt to “bludgeon Trump with [a] new hoax” and “needlessly panicking folks” over an outbreak that is not “even a fraction of the magnitude of the common flu.”

Tucker Carlson, who announced coronavirus “hasn’t been the disaster that we feared” and added this “short-term crisis may have passed…it looks like it may have” back in April.

During a back-and-forth with Sean Hannity in early June, Carlson nodded along and agreed as his colleague mocked predictions from expert virologists and epidemiologists and the news outlets that covered their warnings. “You know what’s amazing about the corona thing? Every model, every person: wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong,” said Hannity in a sanctimonious victory lap. “Everybody was wrong. Amazing.”

By June, Ingraham had had enough of the pandemic altogether. “The president and his campaign should simply not react to any of this alarmist COVID drivel from here on out,” she said.

Steve Hilton, a Fox weekend host, managed to perfectly showcase the down-is-up, bad-is-good alternate reality that Fox News has offered its viewers throughout the pandemic. “Right from the start, we told you the truth about this virus,” Hilton proudly blustered. “That most people have nothing to fear.”


KHN:

Lie of the Year: The Downplay and Denial of the Coronavirus

‘I Wanted to Always Play It Down’

T. fueled confusion and conspiracies from the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic. He embraced theories that COVID-19 accounted for only a small fraction of the thousands upon thousands of deaths. He undermined public health guidance for wearing masks and cast Dr. Anthony Fauci as an unreliable flip-flopper.

Anonymous bad actors offered up junk science. Online skeptics made bogus accusations that hospitals padded their coronavirus case numbers to generate bonus payments. Influential TV and radio opinion hosts told millions of viewers that physical distancing was a joke and that states had all of the personal protective equipment they needed (when they didn’t).

It was a symphony of counter-narrative, and Trump was the conductor, if not the composer. The message: The threat to your health was overhyped to hurt the political fortunes of the president.

On Feb. 7, Trump leveled with book author Bob Woodward about the dangers of the new virus that was spreading across the world, originating in central China. He told the legendary reporter that the virus was airborne, tricky and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”

Trump told the public something else. On Feb. 26, the president appeared with his coronavirus task force in the crowded White House briefing room. A reporter asked if he was telling healthy Americans not to change their behavior.

“There are lots of sources of misinformation, and there are lots of elected officials besides Trump that have not taken the virus seriously or promoted misinformation,” said Brendan Nyhan, a government professor at Dartmouth College. “It’s not solely a Trump story — and it’s important to not take everyone else’s role out of the narrative.”


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And so on, but i'll stop since no one here will read it anyway. It all boils down to not taking the pandemic serious, sporting an anti-science stance and downplaying it. Later they said they downplayed it "to not cause a panic".
If you were republican and "good" americans you would not wear masks, you would fire Fauci, you would be all for opening all stores, and any lockdown and try to evade large crowds was done to "steal my freedom".
This is all understandable but it has a certain twisted bias, instead of accepting reality.

Still i take it the majority voted for someone else because of the difference between reporting and what all saw, with the then governments' response to the virus. You might add the storm for the Capitol, when Fox shortly tried to blame it on BLM, before some journalists left Fox and the latter lost 30 percent of its viewers.

But it's ok, won't do it again, takes too much time.

@ catfish

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Rahm Emanuel

From where I sit, the Government certainly took advantage of this "crisis." A 2.2% overall mortality rate does not really justify the extreme measures taken by some governments.

Just a reminder, 1 year ago we hardly knew the full extent of this virus and how lethal it would be.

True, but we did by midsummer. The link below is an interesting read - conclusion is that we continue with linear growth in covid cases *because* of masks, lockdowns, and social distancing. Had we not done that, yes, there would be a sharper peak, but we'd have already been done and over with the pandemic, even without herd immunity, full vaccinations, etc. Our measures are only prolonging the spread of covid.


https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/37/22684.full.pdf

Some did, especially in Italy. Others believed in Hydroxychloroquine at this time. And that April would make it go away miraculously.

sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/ (forbes.com)

:woot:

What do the numbers look like for places that still adhere to a protocol of HCQ or ivermectin when the patient is still early in the course of the infection?

largely irrelevant

If it works then it is relevant.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/

https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus...nt-of-covid-19

Very early on, doctors were prescribing HCQ with an antibiotic and zinc and doing so at the first sign of infection. Later, ivermectin was used - also at the first sign of infection. If it works, it works - even if we don't know why (we still don't know how aspirin actually works yet we use it because it works to relieve pain).

What is troubling is many western nations treating covid patients involving a regimen of doing nothing until late in the infection when they have to be hospitalized, instead of trying a regimen that may or may not work at the first sign of infection. Doctors don't wait for cancer or heart disease to progress - they try to address it was soon as possible; likewise, they try to give patients tamiflu within 48 hours of first symptoms. In a car crash, they don't wait for the person to lose 90% of they're blood before trying to stop the bleeding...

I think we had a very good idea at that time. An individual made a decision to stop travel and immigration from certain parts of the world to the US. He was seen as a nut and a whatever-phobic that fit the narrative at the time. There were others dancing in the streets in Chinatown somewhere CA saying all was well. It was an utter mess orchestrated by many in DC to remove a sitting president via impeachment or at an election(fair or not).

It's gonna get worse too...





https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-ran...er-immigration

President's policy approach is the 'art of the possible'
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...e-16054266.php


"We're gonna move on these one at a time, try to do as many simultaneous as we can," he said. "But that's the reason why I focused as I have." :doh:

...As some Republicans have questioned Biden's mental acuity - or pointed to an incident last week in which he fell three times climbing the steps to Air Force One - Biden showed few signs of stumbles.

He came armed with statistics and specifics, talking at length on a range of topics.

"Am I giving you too long an answer?" he asked on immigration.

"I apologize for spending more time on it," he said of infrastructure.

Asked about North Korea's missile launch, he quickly responded by citing the United Nations violation (Resolution 1718).

Still, he showed his tendency to meander. A question about gun control led him to pledge to put pipe fitters and miners to work capping wells.
He also grew defensive at times, when asked about whether the conditions in migrant detention centers were acceptable to him.

"That's a serious question, right?" he said. "Is it acceptable to me? C'mon."
And while he said that he planned and expected to run for reelection, he said he couldn't be certain.

"Look, I don't know where you guys come from, man," Biden said. ". . . I'm a great respecter of fate. I've never been able to plan four and a half, three and a half years ahead for certain."


Landslide Victory!

A Few signs???? The old dude barely knew where he was. Scripted questions, scripted answers that's all he's capable of and barely that.