Wednesday, November 11, 2020

The Covid War

                                                          The Covid War

When Nixon was elected, the Vietnam war suddenly became his. Protests focused upon him and him alone. Dan Rather profiled one killed American Soldier of the Day every broadcast.

The Covid fiasco is the obverse of that and I expect the opposite reaction. Where the Press--and the easily influenced American people--began to see the War as Nixon's and never thought of it as Kennedy's or Johnson's war, so Covid will always be seen as Trump's epidemic and, when Biden is elected, the daily and weekly infection numbers will begin to disappear from print and Covid will fade into the background, taking its hysteria with it.

Yesterday was the first day that CNN did not have its Covid Diagnosis and Death Banner.

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