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20 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This headline is disgusting. The story focuses on poll numbers & the unemployment rate to say a strategy of COVID denialism worked in FL. In fact, 32,597 people have died in FL, & the piece doesn't even break stats down by age/race. @alexjgoldstein
politico.com/newsletters/po…
2. I'm only posting it as a caution that horse race politics journalism is going to start declaring COVID "winners and losers" among Presidential aspirants--and that should be called out for the callous, misleading hackery it is.
3. Counterpoint.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
4. One thing DeSantis learned from Trump was to mobilize conspiracy thinking and deny public health data and reporting. Control the information flow and people might start forgetting how many deaths your inaction caused.
miamiherald.com/opinion/editor…
5. I'd like @politico to explain to these people how DeSantis "won the pandemic." Then I'd like them to retract that garbage story.

This is ONE hospital! It's a public hospital so to Ron DeSantis it probably doesn't even exist. /end h/t @alexjgoldstein
miamiherald.com/news/coronavir…

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At what point in the 1918 pandemic or WWII did people say “we won’t be going back to normal”? I’m fascinated by that moment-when the disaster becomes indecipherable from daily life. We are in COVID life now, even more once the schools reopen-then-close. Few surprises left now.
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27 Mar 20
This fight between Trump and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer offers insight into how Trump uses disaster as a partisan tool, and in this case as a re-election strategy.
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2. As of now 12 states have received major disaster declarations for COVID-19 and there will be more on the way. Michigan will certainly be among them. You can follow the declarations for yourself here on the (very bad) @fema website. fema.gov/disasters
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3. One thing they certainly all share, and share with their families and friends, is the fear and stress of wondering "do I have it? will I get really sick, how will it affect my family? will I die?"
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