We've reached the five-year anniversary of when the U.S. government locked down the country to curb the Covid pandemic. It lasted much longer than "Two weeks to stop the spread." CBS and PBS explored the anniversary, but there were no apologies for getting so much of the "science" wrong and using the pandemic so mercilessly against Trump and Republican governors in an election year.
This wasn’t a time for the networks to reflect on everything they exaggerated or simply got wrong, from the “science” of mask mandates and six-foot separations to refusing to grant any credence to the idea that the virus came from a lab in China. Most importantly, it’s downright weird that the Left can warn of “authoritarianism” under Trump when most Americans never had their freedoms more squashed than in 2020.
Curtis Houck found only CBS explored the anniversary among the Big Three. Like CBS, the PBS News Hour interviewed Dr. Ashish Jha, President Biden’s Covid coordinator. PBS anchor Geoff Bennett cited a Pew poll showing just 35 percent of Republicans thought public health officials did a good job, “and then 55 percent of all adults felt the media exaggerated the risks.”
That means 55 percent of adults were scientifically correct. They exaggerated the risks, and suggested any Republican who was skeptical of lockdowns (starting with Trump) should be considered responsible for thousands of deaths.
So the funniest part on PBS came when Bennett asked how trust in public health could be rebuilt, and Biden’s Covid czar said, “first of all, I hate the fact that it is has become partisan. Public health has actually largely not been particularly partisan throughout American history. So this is a this is an unwelcome change.”
The first thing we should all remember is the media-Democrat complex made the pandemic a partisan issue from the first weeks, and no one is apologizing for that. Reporters at press conferences and briefings suggested every Covid death was Trump's fault, and then when Biden came in, no one thought any deaths could be blamed on him.
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