Remember, traditional terrorism strategy, ( Not jihad, but domestic European ) is to make the government over react to terror attacks, so that the people fear the government more than the terrorist's group.
Thus gaining converts.
Another thing to remember about Revolutions, is that even if the cause is just, and the leader compassionate and wise, the moment or at most months, after victory is achieved, the evil minions kill the good guys. Usually in their sleep, or at least their beds. ( The American Revolution is quite rare, that way )
Epstien? Scalia? Biden? All natural causes, right?
It's an editorial. Even godless scum are entitled to an opinion. It should be no surprise that the opinion is elitist, insulting, wrong, and of evil intent. A perfect microcosm of the New York Times.
We are past the line where the "news" is biased, politically. Like every generation, we imagine this is new, but if you consider the number of newspapers with names like the Democrat and Chronicle, or the Arizona Republic, you can see, it's not.
It's not even unheard of for a News company to promote a nice little war to sell papers. Not that the end of the Spanish Empire was thought nice, or little, by the participants and victims.
I can't even say that News companies haven't ignored an ongoing pandemic before. Just a decade ago, right?
But I can't recall such open contempt for their own customers. Utter lack of honesty, and worse, from their perspective, open declarations of what their lie will be going forward. When they outright say on TV they are going to blame the Chinese Coronavirus on Trump, how can they claim any credibility?
It may be your patriotic duty to point out the lies of the Media, but I don't want to break up families.
Just because cousin Beth is convinced pink crystals will improve her love life, or Lizzy Warren would be a great President, is not enough reason to cause her to never speak to you again, and create a horrible rift in family relationships. Imho. Ymmv.
After all, as motorcycle riders, we are usually considered crazy by our parents/families/coworkers, too. Tolerance is often a virtue.
Otoh, if you really never want to see Aunt Gertrude again.....
As noted in the comments on that article, this could literally be the case where "if Trump cured cancer, people would bitch about doctors going out of work".
Forget round II of stimulus checks. Send every citizen (key word there!) an envelope, with a voucher for CVS, for one month's worth of HCQ and Z-packs. Not only is it showing promise as a treatment, but also as a prophylactic (to prevent catching it in the first place).
Possible side effects? Bah. I'll take a possible side effect of hair loss from the drug, over a possible side effect of DEATH from the disease. Sign me up.
Reader Richard Hamerski spots a double standard. He writes: “Here’s the media on Trump: Thirty percent of Corona virus cases in the world are in America. Trump is terrible, he should not be president.
“Here’s the media on Cuomo: Thirty-three percent of Corona virus cases in America are in New York State. Cuomo is great, he should be president.”
Has anyone else noticed that the Woman candidate has become an unperson? Like the photos of Stalin where they drew backgrounds over people standing next to him because they tell out of favor, and often out of living existence, no one will mention her name. She never existed. She certainly isn't still running...right?
The cynic in me demands that the News offices be used as a test case. Call everyone back to work. If they die in bunches from Xi's Virus, then we'll know to keep antisocial distancing for a permanent social standard. ( expect masks to be normal ) And give us actual evidence that we should delay returning to work.
Ellen can stay home and do her show, I haven't noticed much difference. ( my Mom is a devoted fan. )