Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

1) Earlier today Dr. Nancy Messonnier, an official in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), held a conference call with media and pushed a panic narrative around the Coronvirus that ran counter to the Trump administration.

https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1232443190411591680

2) What makes the statements by Dr. Messonnier even more interesting is the fact she is the only sister of former DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosen…

3) Dr. Messonnier is director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

cdc.gov/about/leadersh…

4) "We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare for the expectation that this could be bad.” … “I understand this whole situation may seem overwhelming and that disruption to everyday life may be severe. these are things people need to start thinking about now.”

5) The alarming message from Dr. Messonnier was quickly picked up by most major news organizations and pushed into all reporting on the issue.

cnbc.com/2020/02/25/cdc…

6) I counted 57 downstream news articles that cited the Dr. Messonnier panic, as written within the New York Times.

nytimes.com/2020/02/25/wor…

7) The tone of Dr Messonnier alarm is also counter to the message of the Trump administration and HHS Secretary Alex Azar, as outlined in a press conference with leadership from U.S. Health and Human Services.

WATCH and compare:

8) To give you and idea of how the media ignored the HHS press briefing, and instead choose to run with the narrative coming from Dr. Messonnier (Rosenstein's sister), watch the first 30 seconds of this CNBC interview. [ie. The Set Up]

9) As you can see, it is the statements by Dr. Messonnier and not the official statements by HHS Secretary Alex Azar, CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases Anthony Fauci, that are driving the media narrative.

10) The CDC confirms 53 cases known in the U.S. 36 cases from passengers repatriated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship (previously quarantined Japan). 3 patients were infected in Wuhan (later evacuated to U.S.) The rest were U.S. persons infected while traveling overseas.

However, it was the alarming telephone conference call from Dr. Messonnier, Rod Rosenstein’s sister, that the media chose to focus on.

12) Considering the interests of the issue(s); and considering what lessons we have learned over the past three years about the severity of administrative state opposition to the Trump administration writ large;....

13) ...and considering the known actions and inherent ideology already identified within the behavior of Mr. Rosenstein; weaponizing the political value of Coronavirus as an economic contagion to undermine President Trump is not easily dismissed.

14) There is an argument to be made that various resistance government officials like Dr. Messonnier, in alignment with democrat resistance, are attempting to weaponize fear and talking-points about the coronavirus in order to inflict maximum damage upon the Trump administration

15) The Coronavirus as a *shiny object* takes attention away from the reality of the Democrat internal chaos and gives the 2020 candidates something else to use:

16) /END

17) Addendum.... As if on cue:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1232422484022087681

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19) “Never let a crisis go to waste!”