Yes, this has the chance to be very hurtful because people are fucking stupid. Any adult knows what is going on. The virus was already here. It was going to spread at that point. Going out in a press conference and saying the sky is falling without have even the slightest plan to deal with the monumental fallout would have been disastrous. So, the president stayed calm, acted calm, and told us to not worry. It's a big boy world and sometimes you have to play your cards right, which means that the bare truth isn't always the right play. At the end of the day, the audio basically has him saying it's worse than a bad flu, not airborne super AIDS.
You overestimate adults imo hahaha but this response is perfect! Succinctly destroys the spin-doctors’ narratives.
I especially think contextualizing the response is massive. People have very short memories, but pounding the FACTS of what’s DNC mainstays we’re doing/saying around that time period is an effective narrative-breaker as well. Of course they’ll counter that with “but the President has access to more information...”
Still, coupling the asinine, knee-jerk, always do the opposite of Trump response with the reality that if stronger measures were attempted earlier the MSM and useful idiots would’ve called him a dictator provided a nice bulwark to help people avoid slipping into incurable TDS
So the narrative that it's "just the flu" is incorrect? I'm trying to figure out my stance on this. I spent months telling people it's just the flu but now my President is saying it's worse than that, what do I say?
Early on, a lot of people from media, government, and the medical community were saying that it wasn't worse than the flu. Then all of a sudden it was. It would be difficult to believe everyone would suddenly go "oh hey the people telling me it was no worse than the flu are now saying lock yourselves inside or the beer bug will kill your grandma." The messaging wasn't consistent from anyone with a platform at the start and that could have soured people on taking their word on it when they changed tune later on.
Yes, this has the chance to be very hurtful because people are fucking stupid. Any adult knows what is going on. The virus was already here. It was going to spread at that point. Going out in a press conference and saying the sky is falling without have even the slightest plan to deal with the monumental fallout would have been disastrous. So, the president stayed calm, acted calm, and told us to not worry. It's a big boy world and sometimes you have to play your cards right, which means that the bare truth isn't always the right play. At the end of the day, the audio basically has him saying it's worse than a bad flu, not airborne super AIDS.
B-b-but my political commisar told me to ignore facts and trust my feelings!
You overestimate adults imo hahaha but this response is perfect! Succinctly destroys the spin-doctors’ narratives.
I especially think contextualizing the response is massive. People have very short memories, but pounding the FACTS of what’s DNC mainstays we’re doing/saying around that time period is an effective narrative-breaker as well. Of course they’ll counter that with “but the President has access to more information...”
Still, coupling the asinine, knee-jerk, always do the opposite of Trump response with the reality that if stronger measures were attempted earlier the MSM and useful idiots would’ve called him a dictator provided a nice bulwark to help people avoid slipping into incurable TDS
DON’T WORRY, THIS’LL BE ANOTHER NON-STORY THAT KAYLEIGH WILL ASS-RAPE INTO OBLIVION, SHORTLY...
So the narrative that it's "just the flu" is incorrect? I'm trying to figure out my stance on this. I spent months telling people it's just the flu but now my President is saying it's worse than that, what do I say?
I have always been against saying it's jut the flu.
It does not appear that was the overall sentiment here though
I can't control what people here think or say.
Early on, a lot of people from media, government, and the medical community were saying that it wasn't worse than the flu. Then all of a sudden it was. It would be difficult to believe everyone would suddenly go "oh hey the people telling me it was no worse than the flu are now saying lock yourselves inside or the beer bug will kill your grandma." The messaging wasn't consistent from anyone with a platform at the start and that could have soured people on taking their word on it when they changed tune later on.