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The Trumpist "actually the coronavirus death numbers are inflated" talking point has moved from Fox personalities using other platforms: mediamatters.org/fox-news/new-t…

To its primetime stars: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

To its "news" coverage, where it is presented as a question:
Anyway two weeks from now if you poll "are the coronavirus death counts inflated" at least 2/3 of respondents who say they get their news from Fox will say yes.
It's not that I'm a genius, it's that this play was extremely predictable if you follow Fox at all.
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1. Fox News is promoting protests against social distancing measures. This is really bad.
mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
2. Governors across the country have instituted stay at home orders and other social distancing measures. This has limited the coronavirus' spread, preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed and keeping the death toll from becoming truly nightmarish.
3. But that's come with a heavy price -- massive unemployment and economic destruction. Everyone wants this to end, it can't be the permanent condition. But public health experts say we need much more testing capacity than we have now before we can start safely reopening.
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A new poll finds that nearly half of frequent Fox News viewers say that the official count of U.S. COVID-19 deaths is inflated mediamatters.org/fox-news/new-p…
In recent days, Fox personalities like Brit Hume and Mark Levin have been arguing that the "real" death total should be much lower because the official one includes people with preexisting conditions.
In reality, the official total is an undercount because it misses lots of people who died without getting a test.
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This is true but I think promotes a false sense of security. Trump can have a big influence by pushing red state governors to end the orders and pre-empt local orders and punishing blue state governors who try to keep them in place.
Cities and states are going to take a huge hit to their tax base from the economic shutdown and the cost of dealing with the virus. They are going to be dependent on the federal government for money.
If Trump threatens to cut off the cash for any state that doesn't end the stay at home orders, it's a big problem.
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