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"How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 [masks] -- even though this is different," Trump asked. "Something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000? And, we have that in a lot of different places. So, somebody should probably look into that. I just don’t see from a practical standpoint how that's possible to go from that to that, and we have that happening in numerous places."

Pressed on the matter later at the briefing, Trump called on New Yorkers to "check" Gov. Andrew Cuomo and de Blasio, both Democrats, about the changing mask numbers. "People should check them, because there's something going on." He asserted that it could be "something worse than hoarding."
 
cerebus said:
"How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 [masks] -- even though this is different," Trump asked. "Something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000? And, we have that in a lot of different places. So, somebody should probably look into that. I just don’t see from a practical standpoint how that's possible to go from that to that, and we have that happening in numerous places."

Pressed on the matter later at the briefing, Trump called on New Yorkers to "check" Gov. Andrew Cuomo and de Blasio, both Democrats, about the changing mask numbers. "People should check them, because there's something going on." He asserted that it could be "something worse than hoarding."
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People are saying to check warehouses owned by hillary & obama.
 
cerebus said:
"How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 [masks] -- even though this is different," Trump asked. "Something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000? And, we have that in a lot of different places. So, somebody should probably look into that. I just don’t see from a practical standpoint how that's possible to go from that to that, and we have that happening in numerous places."

Pressed on the matter later at the briefing, Trump called on New Yorkers to "check" Gov. Andrew Cuomo and de Blasio, both Democrats, about the changing mask numbers. "People should check them, because there's something going on." He asserted that it could be "something worse than hoarding."
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Another one of his moronic hunches.
 
lumeer said:
Another one of his moronic hunches.
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Two things.

First, the obvious

https://twitter.com/x/status/1244400604077633536

Second, for folk who haven't been paying attention

The origins of every conservative blame cycle or conspiracy *always* take the form of open-ended questions.

"Where are the masks going?"
"Are they going out the back door?"
"How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?"

You never state as fact - and face legal repercussions - or provide any evidence whatsoever. Ever.
You just put the question out there and let Fox, conservative radio and the rubes fill in the gaps.

Questions only. No proof ever... Thus it has always been, and always will be.

Example:

Trump (providing no proof): Where are the masks going?

Rubes: Them fancy, city-slickin', costal-elitin' doctors be sellin' 'em 'fer sure, just to hurt muh president.
 
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This is a fantastic article on Covid-19 as an ideology:
There are those who shape everything they believe in opposition to Trump who is the Great Satan. These have been challenging times for them because Trump has whipsawed from one end to the other. He began as a dismissalist who couldn’t even be bothered to follow the news about it, much less look into the egregious failures of testing that were the fault of his own regulatory agencies. Then possibly sensing a chance to exercise the powers of an emperor, he flipped the other way. Now he is this extremely strange mix of opinions but with one overriding theme: he is the hero.

This flipflopping has presented problems for the anti-Trump media. Initially, there was a concerted effort to push back on his dismissals, and instead drum up a frenzy. Then the rap on him became that he was not exercising enough dictatorial power – this from people who had warned that Trump was an authoritarian in waiting and couldn’t be trusted with power. That was confusing, to say the least. As I write, he is once again flipping back and forth between “close it down” and “open it up,” while Andrew Cuomo, a new hero among Democratic activists, is blasting his desire to quarantine the whole of New York.

Still, there has been a theme to Trump’s seeming chaos, and it was evident from his first national address on the topic. He decided to cast the virus in the framework of his own nationalism, which he believes to be his great contribution to world history. The virus came from China. China, he kept saying. Call it the China Virus. Also, block all travel to the United States from Europe, he demanded. He got his way and thus caused a disaster at airports around the corner, swarms of people crushed together for 8-12 hours in waiting even as the White House was telling everyone to socially distance. Even now, there are tens of thousands of people with lives and jobs in America who are trapped abroad, locked in and locked out.

For Trump and the Trumpsters, this is not a disease to cure; it is proof that globalism is wrong and confirmation that America needs to seal its borders to all people and goods.

And just as some ideologies have boomed, others have gone bust. I’m thinking in particular of the variety of environmentalism that favors reusing everything, eschewing functioning toilets and faucets, and expresses loathing of consumer culture. The plastic bags are now back at check-out counters, the toilet paper aisle is empty, and “impossible burgers” sit on the shelf unbought.

Yep, meat is back. So is cleanliness. It turns out that pro-dirt green ideology was a luxury good consumable only in peace and prosperity.
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https://www.aier.org/article/coronavirus-as-ideology/
 
Bogus coronavirus claims lead Google Play to finally give Infowars the boot

Alex Jones and Infowars did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the video in question, Jones said that "everybody dies under the new world order except maybe one tenth of one percent that believe they're going to merge with machines and have made deals with this inter-dimensional thing that gave them all the technology. ... You can't make a deal with these aliens, OK, that the Bible tells you about and ever get off the planet." Elsewhere in the video, Jones claims that natural anti-virals exist to treat the novel coronavirus. Google is far from the first tech giant to block or ban Infowars content. In fact, Google-owned YouTube suspended The Alex Jones Channel in August 2018 after mounting pressure from critics that platforms should enforce their anti-hate speech policies. Facebook took action against several Jones-operated pages that same day, as did Twitter with Infowars-related accounts the next month. Facebook instituted a full ban of Alex Jones and Infowars content across all of its platforms in May 2019. Apple's iOS App Store, Google Play's main competitor, already banned the Infowars app more than a year ago during the late summer 2018 blitz.
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Trump is the only U.S. president who (albeit before his election) appeared on Alex Jones’ online show, via video from Trump Tower in December 2015, and praised the notorious conspiracy theorist. "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.”
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