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So, the triple whopper of 1) the Peter Navarro op-ed, 2) the CDC being stripped of it& #39;s role as the COVID data collector, and 3) director Redfield saying spikes in the south are due to Northerners traveling South (in the summer!) kept me up until 3 a.m. Let& #39;s look at this 1/
The Navarro op-ed, which I will not repost so no more traffic to it, should see the fate of the Mike Pence op-ed and be denounced. It isn& #39;t opinion but lies and even peddles hydroxychloroquine again. And @USATODAY just puts a disclaimer at the end! 2/
The problem with this is that for those who don& #39;t know all the details, it sows doubt. Navarro can not be all wrong, right? (He is. ALL. WRONG.) It& #39;s clever. Effective. These narratives stick. Look at this Newsmax clip & what @ashishkjha gets asked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlBP_At94WE">https://www.youtube.com/watch... 3/
So we are in the middle of a narrative control campaign by the White House. We all know why: things aren& #39;t looking so good with the pandemic. Keeps getting worse not better. Kind of like Fauci said. People dying is inconvenient. Response: Let& #39;s hide the data & shift the blame! 4/
This is where Redfield comes in, spinning the yarn that early reopening didn& #39;t cause the spikes in the South (as Fauci said) but traveling Northerners. Because nothing& #39;s better than pitching us against each other in a pandemic. Rebuttal by @ashishkjha here https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1283243422913040387?s=20">https://twitter.com/ashishkjh...
The playbook of narrative control includes these key elements: Lies & misinfo to confuse people & sow doubt (the whole anti-Fauci campaign.) Absurd theories that shift blame & avoid accountability (eg Redfield.) And control of inconvenient facts. Voila: The CDC data decision 6/
The issue with the decision to take data reporting away from CDC and move it into HHS is not that CDC was perfect. We& #39;ve long been asking for better data reporting. The issue is that data is now directly reported into a new third party tool from the company TeleTracking. 7/
Here comes the kicker. You know who is the CEO and chairman of TeleTracking? Michael G Zamagias. You know what his main business is? Wait for it. You guessed it! REAL ESTATE. https://zamagias.com/about/ ">https://zamagias.com/about/&qu... 8/
According to the @nytimes this was a non-competitive, million $ contract. Hospitals are now required to report data directly to HHS via TeleTracking system. No one at CDC can vet or raise alarm if what comes in doesn& #39;t match what gets reported to public 9/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-cdc-coronavirus.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/1...
In short: As Trump& #39;s misinformation machinery & #39;floods the zone with shit& #39; (Steve Bannon) admin officials shift the blame & take control of the data that tells the truth. All of this, of course, in the absence of a national COVID strategy. We have one here: https://globalepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TTSI_general_briefing_v3-1.pdf">https://globalepidemics.org/wp-conten...
