Now, President Trump calls it “a hit job”, but earlier this year Trump voluntarily sat down for multiple recorded interviews with longtime master of the hit job, Bob Woodward.
The celebrated Watergate reporter’s latest book — Rage — claims the president knew how deadly COVID-19 was, even while he played it down in public statements. If Trump did something to jeopardize health and life, why did Woodward hold the explosive story for months as thousands of Americans died.
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Trump defends coronavirus response after Woodward interview audio published: ‘I don’t want to scare people’ [Fox News, September 10, 2020]
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When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you’re Bob Woodward, everything looks like Watergate. So … (YAWN)
Little does Woodward seem to realize that most voters under 35 don’t even know what Watergate was all about, just as most voters under 25 don’t know what 9/11 was all about. Most voters over 40 might know these things but they already know how they’re going to vote.
That massive misfire in audience targeting is going to have virtually no effect on the election. He’s used by the left and ignored by the right, then the places are swapped depending on which side is in power. he’s the little Woodward that cried “Wolf!!”
Woodward can say what he likes and be damned.
Bill mentions One America News as one of this country’s very few trusted news sources. I want to give a shout out to The Epoch Times news paper without which I would not have heard of Bill Whittle.(Monday- Friday digital editions, Wednesday print edition and the app is excellent!)
Oh no, another Woodward book , this is worse than Watergate!!! Ha ha
To follow up on ACTS’s comments about empty shelves, etc., one good thing to come out of all of this was an improved realization of just how interconnected, integrated, and (somewhat) fragile our economic and social networks are. And that a large number of people are essential to sustaining and maintaining and rebuilding that system and network when disturbances and distortions do occur. But also that there are a great number of inventive and innovative people in the USA who can and often do respond to problems with outstanding ideas, flexibility, dedication, commitment, generosity, etc.
It is beyond criminal that this pandemic has been politicized so drastically. This being an election year has undoubtedly exacerbated that element of things, but it was on-going before that. I kind of hope there is no data to support this, but it might be interesting to find out just how many of the people who have died were D’s vs. R’s. Given the urban areas tend to be blue and urban areas tend to have greater number of (designated) Covid-19 deaths, the D’s may have lost more voters in proportion than the R’s. Only in such a political cesspool would I even come up with this idea.
And extending my political orientation a little further, if 190,000 people have died of Covid-19 and 13% or 24,700 of them (or perhaps more) were black, that is much larger than any number of blacks being killed by police or even other blacks. The focus on blm (by BLM and others) should be redirected to that aspect of things. Hope they don’t get it in their heads to defund ER’s because of some racially oriented disparent impact.
Bill stated that it was a no win situation for Trump but i think its actually a no lose situation. If Woodward reports accurately and its not a hit piece it makes Trump look good, if its a hit piece he gets these middle of the road statements pushed by the msm as being hitler speeches and more people look at what was said and distrust the media more.
Very good points.
If the POTUS had stated tom the people that the CCP Virus would we deadly and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans the people would have taken it in stride and promptly PANICKED.
Of course a President, any President, would want to avoid a panic because a panic helps neither the situation nor the people being affected by the situation.
Did any of you try to buy toilet paper in April or May? If the President had fed a panic that wouldn’t have just been things like toilet paper. It would have been food, clothing and all the other things that can and will be hoarded by people expecting a disaster.
People would have starved because not only would the shelves have been totally bare, the production, distribution centers and transportation facilities would ALSO have been bare — Emptied of people to operate them. And so the shelves would be empty and so would the pipeline from producer to store shelves. Rather than having to choose from an off-brand soup over your favorite there would have been no cans of soup anywhere to be had by anyone.
To cause such a scenario would have been irrational. As it turned out, the situation was nowhere near as dire as predicted and did not manifest in a catastrophic manner.
The initial predictions were for 2.5 MILLION Americans to die from COVID-19. That has been held down to less than 10% of the original estimates and of that number 10% of the deaths are directly attributable to the Democrat governors of New York State and New Jersey.
Trump has nothing to be ashamed of in putting the welfare of the American People first. Had he wanted to seize political power, as the left so often accuses him of, he could have done so over this China Flu situation had that been his goal.
He put us ahead of whatever aspirations for power he might have. I’m grateful to him for that.
Have to laugh. This virus has proven to be not particularly infectious or particularly deadly. But hysteria reigns.
Judging from the number of times these “hit Pieces” accusations innuendos and outright attacks have ended in a complete and total backfire… I would hold off attempting to access Trumps wisdom or lack thereof until all of the pieces have stopped spinning…. it seems to me that there are numerous video clips of Biden, Schumer, Pelosi et all downplaying the dangers of covid… the difference between them and Trump is that he acted preemptively to contain the problem with global shutdown of travel, while they were telling people to go shopping, ride the subway and don’t wory about the “flu”…..
The funny thing about the Woodward story is, when I read it, I don’t see what the big deal is.
Our knowledge of this thing developed over time. We were unaware of the extent of the infections in the US was early on, so it was reasonable to believe that cutting of travel to China would effectively keep it from coming in in large numbers. What we didn’t know is that it already had.
I never heard anything but “this is bad, but don’t panic” — from the President.
This is always good advice.
Panic makes you do things without thinking.
That’s what I read in the article when I read Trump’s words. In the mean time he’d shut down travel to China, created a task force for it that met EVERY day, the CDC started work on its own test that there were unfortunately manufacturing issues and a regulatory issue with THAT that delayed it for almost a month. This wasn’t because Trump was acting as though it was no big deal.
Leaders don’t panic.
We do have to be careful when talking about that 6% number, “94% had comorbidities” number. It doesn’t mean what it sounds like it means. The “comorbidities that, by themselves, likely could have caused death” part isn’t quite true. A more reasonable number might still be quite low, but probably not that low.
Comorbidities can be and often are things that the virus induced or created the conditions where it would thrive… most common being pneumonia.
So pneumonia might be the cause of death, and COVID-19 might be listed as a co-morbidity, or vice-versa. That doesn’t mean it WASN’T a COVID-19 death, so we need to acknowledge that, or we risk doing what the Left does by misinterpreting things.
On the other hand there is a reason this hits the 70+ crowd extra hard, and that is because their health, in general — their immune system, their body strength, the deterioration of organ function over time — leave them more susceptible to total failure and death.
I still say let’s slap N95’s on the vulnerable and everybody else go about their business, sensibly and maybe the spread stops when it keeps hitting hosts who’ve already had it. Then maybe we get a vaccine and improve things even further.
My biggest gripe is that we’re counting cases and deaths differently than we count flu cases and deaths. Flu cases and deaths are largely modeled. People often don’t go to a doctor when they get a flu. They don’t run get tested for a flu if they have a cough and a headache. And when they do, the doctor often doesn’t test them, he just says “probably a flu. Go home, rest, drink liquids.”
With this one there have been multiple questionable guidelines for counting a death as a COVID death that we’ve not done with other flus.
So comparisons need to be taken with a decent dose of salt.
Very true. I realize anecdotal information is always suspect but I personally know a family who had a family member with cancer. The cancer treatments were covered under their insurance. The life insurance policy also covered death by cancer. COVID -19 treatments were not covered and death by COVID-19 was not covered in the life insurance policy. The person died and the cause of death was listed as COVID-19, so the insurance(s) refused to pay for treatment up to the time of death and indemnity for the death under the life insurance policy.
The family is out a lot of money and suing the insurance companies and the doctors. The doctors here have stated that they were encouraged to list any death where COVID-19 was present in the victim as being the cause.
So what I’m wondering is did the insurance companies, knowing they would get out of paying a lot of settlements, lobby for or were else-wise behind a significant portion of our skewed.statistics regarding COVID-19 deaths?
I’m wondering if it wasn’t backwards of what you wrote. The insurance company did not want to pay out so the death was listed as Covid-19.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. Yes, that’s what I meant but also on a larger scale. If there were insurance policy exceptions to paying out on COVID 19 cases then it’s possible, or even likely that the Insurance Industry may have had a hand via several vectors in trying to list every death possible as a COVID death … So that they didn’t have to pay out on those policies.
Thus inflating the actual COVID death toll for purely financial reasons.
I’m not generally a fan of conspiracy explanations and am more of an Occam’s Razor kind of guy but … Neither am I so naive to ignore what wholly unchained, unregulated avarice can accomplish.
The thing about insurance companies is that being already tightly regulated, and for good reason, their pool of clients is finite. Like a cable company is restricted to a certain geographical area, so too the insurance business is bounded on all sides by some fairly tight regulations and oversight bodies. In either case, it’s not as easy to boost business by recruiting new clients as it is to get the clients you already have to pay more each. This is why your cable company bugs you to add features. Or in the sense of what I’m talking about here, for the business to find a means to pay out less each. Same result to the bottom line.
I’m sorry if this seems a little muddled, I know what I mean but I’m not always flawless at getting my meaning across.
What I’m actually saying here is that there is clear incentive for the insurance business as well as the political left — to encourage doctors to tally up as many deaths to COVID as possible. The political left to gain by (wrongly) accusing Trump of dropping the ball and the insurance companies to profit by a loophole (which creates a windfall) to avoid paying on policies.
I think, from this personal situation I’m aware of happening to people I know, that this might merit looking into on an official level. Because if you combine the opportunity for the political left to slander the right and an irresistible opportunity for profit by the big insurance companies you get a sort of diabolical double blow. Which even if my suspicions are valid would be hard to prove.
Please understand that I don’t hold any animosity towards the insurance industry as such. I do however hold quite a bit of both skepticism and animosity for them to avoid rightfully paying out on valid claims. It has been my experience in the past that given the opportunity the insurance companies will try to minimize their pay out(s) not based as much on validity as on what can be pulled off successfully.
Thus I believe it might be interesting to see the profit and loss statements from those companies and how they parallel the COVID crisis.
I thought, after I posted, that the insurance company would not have any part in the determination of death and the inflated covid numbers would mostly come from the hospitals looking for the federal aid money.
Someone, maybe Bill or maybe elsewhere, posited that the Deep State isn’t a conspiracy as such, like the JournoList with its marching orders and agreed upon words, but more a bunch of like minded minion-wanna-bes all working toward a similar goal without a queen bee directing them.
Insurance companies, knowing there is an incentive for the doctors to rule one way, could have a number of middle manager level people looking to improve their department bottom line and looking for a loophole usable in this situation. Having found one they could point out such a rule exists and remind people that doing the best for the company looks good come review time.
Covid-19 is MUCH less deadly than the MSM wants to pretend. Only 6% of those who were reported to have died because of Covid-19 did so. The remaining 94% had multiple comorbidities that, by them selves, likely could have caused death. Covid-19, at most, only pushed them over the edge they were already one step away.
I took it seriously because I am seriously sensitive to any flu. Flu has a significant tendency to turn into bronchial pneumonia. Really bad news for an 83 year old with health problems. So I sequestered myself and doubled down on what I do for any flu season. As a consequence, I did not die, did not catch any flu, and am keeping on keeping on.
Bob Woodword is nothing but a left of left subversive agent. ANYTHING he says is nothing but a distortion of the facts taken out of context. He deserves to go to the hell he wants us to live in.
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