{"id":31571,"date":"2020-12-16T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31571"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:03:08","slug":"that-prism-distorts-everything-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/16\/that-prism-distorts-everything-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"That Prism Distorts Everything, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I wrote<\/a> concerning Erick Erickson whining about the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of the facts of the vaccine for the coronavirus. He really shouldn’t neglect White House mistakes – wishful thinking, really – when it comes to the pandemic. Steve Benen has a helpful memory restorative<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We’ve\u00a0revisited<\/a>\u00a0the Indiana Republican’s pitch from time to time, but at the half-year mark, it’s striking to see just how much conditions in the United States have deteriorated since Pence took his premature victory lap.<\/p>\n

“While talk of an increase in cases dominates cable news coverage, more than half of states are actually seeing cases decline or remain stable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most states<\/a>\u00a0are seeing increases coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n

“Cases have stabilized over the past two weeks, with the daily average case rate across the U.S. dropping to 20,000 — down from 30,000 in April and 25,000 in May.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the last week, we’ve seen totals of over 200,000 cases per day — roughly\u00a010 times<\/em>\u00a0the figure Pence bragged about six months ago today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And more and more. Erickson can be as angry as he likes, but his White House has been worse – Trump claiming the virus would magically disappear<\/em> has been a highlight of their helpless, deer-in-the-headlights response.<\/p>\n

Science will try to make it disappear, now that magic has failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I wrote concerning Erick Erickson whining about the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of the facts of the vaccine for the coronavirus. He really shouldn’t neglect White House mistakes – wishful thinking, really – when it comes to the pandemic. Steve Benen has a helpful memory restorative: We’ve\u00a0revisited\u00a0the Indiana Republican’s \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31572,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions\/31572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}