How does this policy help the country? It's just so blatantly designed to hurt people.
The whole point seems to be to rile up Trump's base at the cost of people who are just trying to go about their lives during a pandemic.
This really hits home. These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. Every day it seems the US is edging closer and closer to.... I don't even know what. With half the country happily marching to the drumbeats. It's amazing just how fragile our systems were.
I've been wondering if it's just mentally more healthy to go the ignorance is bliss route. I know so many people who don't even register these kinds of events, and they seem happier.
If you frighten people enough they will vote for anything that resembles safety. The first part is accomplished, wouldn't you say?
No, but I'm old enough to remember when all the major media told approximately the same lies so that they were part of the shared, accepted “truth”, which is probably what you are thinking of.