{"id":37850,"date":"2020-04-01T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=37850"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:02:39","slug":"media-downplayed-coronavirus-called-it-less-serious-than-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/media-downplayed-coronavirus-called-it-less-serious-than-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Downplayed Coronavirus, Called It Less Serious Than Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you hear the media and Leftists attack Pres Trump over his handling of the China virus keep in mind when he was talking about it and issuing a travel ban they were obsessed with calling him a racist and seeing him impeached. Up until March 4th the democrat party controlled media was downplaying the severity of the coronavirus stressing more concern over the flu&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wVDPVBZF2Xg\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf anyone is culpable with blood on their hands it is the media and democrat party. They played it down which set a tone across the country that resulted in people thinking Trump is racist (AGAIN), not taking simple precautions, traveling when they shouldn&#8217;t have (especially college students to Spring Break destinations).<\/p>\n<p>When this is all over a lot of people, besides China, have to be called out and held accountable for what they did. The Left as a whole went from 0 to 100, trivializing the virus to making people think it&#8217;s the virus from the <i>Walking Dead<\/i> or <i>The Stand<\/i>. The media&#8217;s handling of this pandemic has been disgraceful to the degree even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kyle-drennen\/2020\/03\/25\/i-wish-would-stop-dr-fauci-scolds-media-pitting-him-against-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Fauci<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/dr_deborah_birx_sweetly_scolds_the_media_for_spreading_panic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Birx<\/a> have had to set them straight. They don&#8217;t report news, they push political propaganda with the objective to destroy Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Teach them a lesson in November no matter what, reelect Trump and run as many dems out of office as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When you hear the media and Leftists attack Pres Trump over his handling of the China virus keep in mind when he was talking about it and issuing a travel ban they were obsessed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[10258,9987],"tags":[45846,47055,47056],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Media-Downplayed-Coronavirus-Called-It-Less-Serious-Than-Flu.png?fit=640%2C307","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37852,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850\/revisions\/37852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}