Left’s Response To Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ Tweet Emphasizes How Very Much They Want Fear
By Joy Pullmann
We can’t have people prudent about COVID, or rational about COVID, or thoughtful, or courageous about COVID. That does not produce the social outcomes that these people want. Being scared of COVID does.
In a Monday tweet celebrating his release from the hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, President Trump wrote: “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!” He followed it with this similarly upbeat video statement:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020
The response to this tweet was characteristically unhinged in a way that speaks to the primary motivator of corporate media coverage of the virus: fear.
SUPERCUT!
Media lose their shit over Trump’s optimistic Covid tweet pic.twitter.com/SmLHHggZlW
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 5, 2020
Twitter quickly promoted another ResistAnon vertical trending conspiracy theory:
The author of — you can’t make this up — “The Opposite of Hate” wrote:
One of the chief anti-Trump hysteria-mongers in existence — and that’s a competitive position — wrote:
full story at https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/06/lefts-response-to-trumps-dont-be-afraid-tweet-emphasizes-how-very-much-they-want-fear/