Trump and FOX have backslid?

[kentuck]

"Backslid" is an old southern religious word for when somebody got saved and baptized and then went back to sinning.

For a while, they acted like they believed the coronavirus was a serious matter. FOX even made a commercial telling people how bad it was. Trump pretended to believe that hundreds of thousands would die from it and if, perchance, there were less, then he would claim he saved all those lives.

Then, just in the last couple of days, they seem to have changed their tune? They are back to their old ways. Lying and minimizing the virus. Once again, it is only the "flu".

Perhaps the news from Governor Cuomo that the trend seemed to be turning downward convinced them that it was safe to return to politics? One might think the world would end if they lose the next election?

[LakeArenal]

1. The world will end if the do....

[ok_cpu]

2. Fox appears to be tRump's pilot group

Where he workshops the new messaging to see what plays.

[underpants]

3. Just this morning- fully promoting protests against the lock down

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213282861

[gibraltar72]

4. Reverted to form.

[sop]

5. I think they're shifting back to the position that we must accept a significant number virus deaths

as the inevitable price for reopening the economy. For them it's a simple Cost-Benefit Analysis. The trick is figuring out how many deaths will be acceptable to justify going back to business as usual while we let the pandemic run its natural course unchecked.