There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’
With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.
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217d ago
Pence, in a WSJ op-ed, says there is no second wave and praises President Trump, including this line: "He rallied the American people to embrace social-distancing guidelines."
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Recently the media has taken to sounding the alarm over a “second wave” of COVID-19 cases. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump’s leadership & the courage of the American people, we’re winning the fight against the invisible enemy.
Vice President Mike Pence: the US pandemic response is "a cause for celebration, not the media’s fear mongering.”
This is a not a new tune for the VP.
In 2001 he wrote "Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill."
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Just a reminder that one month ago today, the vice president of the United States of America and head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force published an op-ed in @WSJopinion saying there was no second wave of #covid19 and US was “winning the fight”.
One month ago today, @VP wrote this in @WSJopinion
I had a different take then -- but he is head of the nation's COVID taskforce. So I wondered if he was seeing something I wasn't
Not only has Op-Ed turned out wrong
It was predictably so
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Mike Pence in WSJ on June 16: wsj.com/articles/there… #Covid19 data as of today: nytimes.com/interactive/20… pic.twitter.com/eiynumYdJX
You semi-regular reminder that on June 16, Mike Pence wrote an op-Ed for the WSJ that dismissed the notion of a COVID-19 second wave.
Since then more than 112,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 wsj.com/articles/there… pic.twitter.com/9c8PuCtWxa
Today, Vice President Pence wrote an op-ed in the @WSJ touting America’s success in fighting the coronavirus writing, “...we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy.” Let’s break down some of his claims this week. (2/24)
Exactly one month ago today, @VP wrote this in @WSJ:
"While talk of an increase in cases dominates cable news coverage, more than half of states are actually seeing cases decline or remain stable."
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I'll take "op-eds that didn't age well for $200, Alex."
Pence's point that there's been gradual progress is correct, but he glosses over why experts are worried. It's not just a "second wave," it's that we never successfully ended the first and even a plateau means a horrifying number of deaths ahead. wsj.com/articles/there… pic.twitter.com/5SOGfhCuqd
Oh FFS. Vice President Pence is right about one thing: there is no "second wave" of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus.
We're still in the first wave, and that wave hasn't crested yet.
Vice President Pence, in defending the administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, casts blame:
"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."
The WSJ publishes an op-ed by Vice President Mike Pence that contradicts its own news reporting.
Pence disparages the news media and writes: "The truth is, whatever the media says, our whole-of-America approach has been a success"
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As Vice President Mike Pence runs a victory lap in The Wall Street Journal, a reminder:
In the United States, #COVID-19 has killed 116,491.
One month ago @VP Pence in the WSJ: “The truth is, whatever the media says, our whole-of-America approach has been a success,” he wrote. “We’ve slowed the spread,...”
A pal sent this op-ed written 11 days ago by VP Pence: wsj.com/articles/there… In it, he claims w/ triumph that the US has fallen to 20K cases/day and all the worry about a rise in cases is media BS. In a few days we will hit 50K cases/day. Rarely is someone so wrong so quickly. pic.twitter.com/tKLtOejkAT
Pretty bold effort by Pence that might end up becoming a "Mission Accomplished" moment. But a few things to note about this op-ed --> wsj.com/articles/there… pic.twitter.com/GuwR6ERP7X
I’m just catching up with Mike Pence’s op-ed denying a second coronavirus wave and saying the media made it up. Echoes here of Karl Rove’s bizarre criticism of the “reality-based community.”
We are being led by fools. It's been just two and a half weeks since @VP assured us the case counts were going down. wsj.com/articles/there… pic.twitter.com/wHEFiTpU5s
Another day, another Trumpist publishes unchallenged misinformation (lies) in a major newspaper. #covid19
Pence wrote this outrageously wrong column on June 16, and two weeks later US daily cases hit new records (>50,000). These people are terribly incompetent & refuse to learn. The US has by far the world's best expertise and all this could have been avoided.
Because the US hasn’t finished the first wave yet..
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Just a quick reminder that 26 days ago, Mike Pence published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that said "we are winning the fight against" COVID-19 and attacked the media for scaring people about it wsj.com/articles/there… pic.twitter.com/7AL1fLGRFS
How much have things changed since the "reference week" reflected in BLS numbers? Mike Pence's op-ed denying a second wave — published *after* that week — boasted that we were "only" recording 20K cases a day. Yesterday there were more than 50K 1/
This is what Mike Pence said on June 16th about COVID-19. Since then more than 60,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus wsj.com/articles/there… pic.twitter.com/iuFMTwSNmz
In an op-ed that surprisingly wasn't published in the @NYTimes (wsj.com/articles/there…)
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“And in the past five days, deaths are down to fewer than 750 a day, a dramatic decline from 2,500 a day a few weeks ago—and a far cry from the 0 per day that President Trump was predicting for many months.” — @VP via @WSJopinion
asking what I asked of "by" Biden in NYT and "by" Trump in USAT -- who actually wrote this? Newspapers should not cooperate with the publicity stunt of politicians pretending to be authors. It's yet more cheapening of the written word @Mike_Pence wsj.com/articles/there… via @WSJ
Mike Pence is as much a raving ignoramus, or idiot, or delusionist, or liar as his boss.
If there isn't a second wave and the #COVID19 pandemic is over how come I still can't find Charmin Ultra Soft toilet paper?
What are the odds that "14 billion gloves" mentioned here by @VP refers to individual gloves, not pairs?
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