Originally Posted by
BDAttitude
All that Schadenfreude in the press and on socmeds ... chances are that it will significantly backfire. If indeed he is amongst the larger crowd who does not experience a grave course of disease, he will be able to downplay the epidemic more than ever!
That won’t be known about for 2-3 weeks. A large proportion of the early voting will be completed by then.
For the next two weeks this news puts the COVID pandemic front and centre back in everyone’s minds and reminds everyone it is a deadly disease. Trump was using rhetoric indicating he thought the pandemic situation was improving and close to being over, so this puts it back as headline news and reminds everyone of his poor handling of it. The COVID situation and resultant poor economy was one of his many weak points, he would rather the talk pivot back to things where he thinks he has an advantage like law and order, which he’s probably lost after he refused to condemn violent far right mobs.
And to pivot this thread back tho this forum (Australian Aviation), maybe this prominent news being discussed all the way down here in Australia will remind Australians that the pandemic is still raging on around the world, that strict measures are needed to control it, it’s better to get cases as close to zero as possible before opening up and being open with a virus spreading doesn’t mean jobs for all. Just today American and United airlines announced a combined 32,000 layoffs, and Expressjet airlines ceased operations. In a nation where internal borders haven’t been closed but the pandemic has been raging.