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The reason Trump won't answer any questions about why he accepted Xi Jinping's misrepresentations on COVID-19 in January despite EVERYONE telling him he was being lied to is because, friends, that's the whole ballgame: Trump AGAIN ignored US intelligence in favor of an autocrat.
Xi Jinping has given the Trump Organization and the Trump family SCORES of incredibly valuable trademarks since 2017. If you don't understand the connection between this fact and Trump accepting Xi Jinping's lies about COVID-19 in January you're missing EVERYTHING going on here.
To be clear, I'm basing this not on theory, but on Trump's DEMONSTRATED business strategy, across decades, of cutting corners and lying and even committing crimes to please foreign autocrats who can help his business. This is literally the biography of the man; it's not a theory.
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(THREAD) I teach communications and journalism at the university level. My published curatorial journalism relies exclusively on information from experts. Right now our medical experts are confusing America on some basic COVID-19 points. I'm going to try to help. Please RETWEET.
1/ Right now we have two major, ongoing communications and journalism issues in the United States:

1⃣ Media is covering proclamations by non-experts on subjects that require expertise to discuss cogently.

2⃣ Experts are not using fully briefed intermediaries to deal with media.
2/ The result is that when we turn on our TVs, either we're hearing from people we shouldn't be hearing from at all—individuals speaking way outside their areas of expertise (if they even have any)—*or* we are hearing *directly* from experts *who don't have communication skills*.
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Did anyone else see the CNN interview with the U. of Washington researcher who explained all the reasons death tolls will be higher than we imagined—then announced that the IHME model had *dropped* its fatality estimate by 8,500? Do these people *know* they're confusing everyone?
PS/ The guy explained that increased post-mortem testing will increase the death toll, that (as explained on this feed and others weeks ago but absent from the IHME model) data *plateauing* means more deaths than anticipated...and then he announced IHME was dropping its estimate.
PS2/ When I wrote here that the IHME model was ignoring the plateauing in Italy even as it said it was incorporating Italy's data, I got hammered. And now today—3+ weeks later—the IHME is admitting that its model underestimated the plateaus we'd see—as opposed to discrete apexes.
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Kennedy is a member in good standing of Trump's "death cult," so let me explain what I mean by the term.

Trump cultists elevate Trump's re-election above *everything*—and that includes rule of law, our democracy, US foreign policy, civil public discourse, and *yes*, your *life*.
It's a "death cult" because it's a cult of personality that is willing to sacrifice—to its *death*—anything that stands in the way of its God-Emperor.

So rule of law must *die*, democracy must *die*, our international alliances must *die*, and now—yes—many of *us* must die, too.
Keep in mind, a poll shows 81% of Americans want stay-at-home orders to continue—and for government officials like Kennedy to do what must be done to make that possible for every family economically. Only 10% of Americans (the death cult) ask us to throw up our hands and give up.
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