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I would, Rip. But really, in order for my explanation to hold any water with you, we would have to agree on a set of facts. And we don’t. I believe this pandemic is real. I believe 220,000+ people have died from this disease in this country, and many more will die over the coming months. I don’t believe there have been intentional and conspiratorial efforts to overestimate the death toll at either the local or national level. I don’t believe this is a global effort to accumulate authoritarian power. And most fundamentally, I believe the federal government had and has a responsibility to create some sort of national plan to address the disease and its economic fallout. And I think this administration has been a catastrophic failure in that regard. As such, we are weaker, poorer, sicker, and deader.
It is only possible to believe this bullshit if you are willfully ignorant of the facts. The simple way to maintain this condition is to watch only CNN.