/1 @CarlyAtch and @GovStitt went to Tulsa ER on date #StittVirusDeathCount hit 10,000+ Oklahoma COVID deaths not because they cared about Oklahomans.
They did it to spread disinformation, set up excuse for the deaths, and most disgustingly,
To Astroturf for DeSantis.
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/2 At the time of this post, the debunked @CarlyAtch tweet of Thursday had 76 retweets, the first being from the Press Secretary of Florida Governor DeSantis, Christina Pushaw.
Coordination, or coincidence?
/3 On my scan through the 76 retweets, I found 4 (allegedly) Oklahoma-based posters, 2 being institutional, and 2 appeared to spam retweet dozens of GOP-propaganda tweets daily.
I did find lots of Floridians though.
The next 4 pages of retweets.
Coordination, or coincidence?
/4 The next 4 pages of retweets. Keep in mind, the one at bottom is oldest, so I am posting these in reverse order. On these 4 pages, Kari of OKC is on there, but appears to be involved in tweeting national issues, not local ones. Not sure if currently a bot, or real.
/5 And now the most recent 2 pages of the 76 retweets. Only one of those 4 "Oklahomans" here, and based on a scan of those followed by AJ, I see nearly zero evidence that the bot/person has any legitimate Oklahoma ties.
Yet 200k+ tweets...
/6 There are 15 quote retweets, but 9 of those are Oklahoma-based criticisms of the @CarlyAtch tweet.
There is one Oklahoma-based quote retweet which does not criticize.
From a Q organizer.
So the final score on all Oklahoma-based retweets:
5 for Carly
9 against
#Astroturf
/7 So why all of this effort?
To nip this Astroturfed disinformation campaign in the bud.
#DeathDesantis and @GovStitt are trying to deflect from the fact that overall death rate in Florida is nearly DOUBLE the normal rate, and blame the deaths on @POTUS and his administration
/8 Now, DeSantis was able to delay the reckoning for this doubling of deaths for a while, by changing the way that deaths are reported.
This tactic temporarily reduced reported deaths from 262 per day, to 46.
The media quickly discovered the coverup.
miamiherald.com/news/coronavir…
/9 But instead of 46 COVID-related deaths per day in Florida at the end of August/beginning of September, there was actually closer to 490.
An excess death graph shows 7115 deaths, 93% more than who usually die calendar week of Aug. 28.
/10 So, with time ticking on these excess deaths being categorized as COVID deaths, how does #DeathDesantis prevent being called #DoubleDeathsDesantis?
He sets up a campaign with his Press Secretary Pushaw to place the blame on the Biden administration.
And see the last 2?
/11 That's right, on a day that Oklahomans need support and comfort, @CarlyAtch, @GovStitt's Communications Director, paid for by the citizens of Oklahoma, is cooperating in a national disinformation campaign to coverup that DOUBLE the normal number of Floridians are dying.
/12 And why would @CarlyAtch and @GovStitt help DeSantis with disinformation?
Because that same reckoning is coming for them.
Oklahoma deaths are 45% over normal, and CDC is still counting the (notoriously slowly released) death certificates.
They need someone else to blame.
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