Mike Pence misleadingly slams the media's 'panic' over second wave of coronavirus - Business Insider

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Mike Pence accuses the media of 'fear mongering' over a second wave of Covid-19 in a misleading Wall Street Journal op-ed that praises Trump

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Vice President Mike Pence announced the administration's "success" in containing the coronavirus epidemic and slammed the press for "sounding the alarm bells over a 'second wave'" of infections.

Pence's rosy picture of the administration's fight against the coronavirus ignores the federal government's delayed and dysfunctional response to the pandemic, which has already killed over 116,000 people in the US. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday announced the federal government's "success" in containing the US's coronavirus epidemic and slammed the press for "sounding the alarm bells over a 'second wave'" of Covid-19 infections.

Pence celebrated that the daily average infection rate has dropped to about 20,000 new cases per day — down from a high of about 30,000 in April. And he pointed out that daily Covid-19 deaths in the US have declined to 750 over the last five days.

But the vice president failed to mention that coronavirus cases are on the rise in over 20 states — many of the same places that were quick to loosen social distancing orders and reopen businesses. And overall, new Covid-19 cases in the US have"The media has tried to scare the American people every step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different," he wrote.

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I always thought sitting presidents and VPs couldn’t write news articles. Did I make that belief up? I mean obviously The Wall Street Journal is a conservative paper, so was an exemption made for Pence? Have other presidents and VPs written while serving? I think it’s odd.

Hmmm, I wonder why? You guys are so blatantly political about all of this, no one can believe wtf you say.

He’s absolutely right. Zero evidence of second wave yet we get articles like this:

next 5 months should be SO entertaining!!! :)

in Moscow, at The Pravda :) :)

Vice President Mike Pence , that vacuum sound is the sound of your POTUS chances being sucked out into the abyss!

I agree!! They are.

Ewwwwwww

He deserves a listen as he is in CHARGE of Coronavirus recovery, non?

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