There has been a full-on media blackout of the new study outlining the ineffectiveness of lockdowns to prevent COVID deaths.

Johns Hopkins University economics professor Steve Hanke, Lund University economics professor Lars Jonung, and special advisor at Copenhagen’s Center for Political Studies Jonas Herby – analyzed the effects of lockdown measures such as school shutdowns, business closures, and mask mandates on COVID-19 deaths. “We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates,” the researchers wrote.

The researchers also examined shelter-in-place orders, finding that they reduced COVID-19 mortality by 2.9%.
— Fox News, 2/4/22

It took a little while but when the relevance-starved attention-seekers continue to get the face time they crave, they eventually say too much and spill the beans. So, what were the lockdowns REALLY all about…?

The next appropriate questions would be, just who gave Fauci and other so-called health officials the right to recommend and implement lockdowns that killed thousands of small businesses nationwide, put millions of Americans out of work, and stunted the academic growth of children when it was really all about those who may have financial interests in a vaccine that didn’t work, thus requiring subsequent ineffective boosters whose only real purpose is to line the pockets of pharmaceuticals?

These arrogant taxpayer-funded employees believed they could use force to make the “naive” take an experimental drug where no side effects were disclosed (because it’s physically too early to know what they are), and also employed a blackmail tactic making Americans have to choose between employment and risking their permanent health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and their media are doing everything possible to ignore the numerous stories of the previously healthy dropping dead shortly after taking the vaccine or booster and now the majority of those in hospitals from COVID-19 being the fully vaccinated.

Fauci’s cavalier admission should be a meme used so often that he can’t show his face in public without answering some very pertinent questions.

Clearly, it’s not really about the stock market after all — because other flesh-and-blood humans are invested in the stock market, and who gives a f*#k about them, right? No, it’s all about Trump’s reelection prospects. And he has two choices: 1) Do the right thing, save potentially millions of lives, and ride off into the sunset knowing you did your level best for your fellow humans or 2) be Donald Trump.
— Daily Sound & Fury, 3/26/20

The president responded with more inconvenient truth.

My enemies want me to keep the country closed so I lose the election: Donald Trump claims ‘fake news’ is pushing need to lockdown in the face of coronavirus out of hatred of him

The media clearly regards the Coronavirus and his reelection as equally important topics, especially when it comes to how Americans are perceiving the president’s response to the Chinese Wuhan virus.

Despite the ongoing tumult as a result of all things COVID-19, others are also taking notice of the politics (which we all know would be a timely and pertinent topic if their favorite former president were in the same position).

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If President Trump’s approval rating was cratering, they’d be airing replays of his briefings hourly during their programs. But alas, this is not the case.

Trump’s job approval number hits all-time high 47%
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Scarborough Claimed ‘Yesterday, 1,000 Americans Died of Virus’ in Trump’s NYC

Sadly, the actual number was 80, but this is also an illustration of why the media has a public disapproval number much greater than President Trump and you know it really pisses them off.

And why shouldn’t the president be concerned about his reelection seeing how the Democrat plan from Day One was to do anything and everything to have him removed from office (if not in handcuffs) during his first term? His even being able to talk 2020 reelection is a political miracle in itself.

While circumnavigating the uncharted waters of the Wuhan virus has been traumatizing for the nation, President Trump’s response has been calm, cool and collected despite the ever-evolving information he’s been receiving on a daily basis. His keeping the people informed (Leadership 1.01) without having to rely on speechwriters and focus groups to hone a self-serving political message continues to help the nation get through these times of uncertainty, despite the best efforts of the left and their media.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell incorrectly labeled Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes a “Republican”, which in this particular news story is a major screw up.

Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign has filed lawsuits against election officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties, accusing them of not being able to provide accurate totals of how many ballots remain left to be counted. In the lawsuits, Scott’s campaign names Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher in their respective county roles.

Snipes and Bucher are Democrats. Scott is a Republican.
— WTSP 10, 11/9/18

Mitchell also referred to “the mess we all remember from 2000” that was the Bush-Gore Florida recount.

Ali Vitali nodded in agreement again. The problem is Vitali was 10 in 2000 and that whole hanging chad thing was probably low on her awareness, comprehension and importance list.

It could be argued Andrea Mitchell mislabeled Snipes’ party affiliation because Democrat internals show they consider their supporters “low information” so they could be easily duped.

It could be argued that Mitchell is stupid and Vitali is ignorant, thus another millennial “political reporter” too inexperienced to have gotten the job in the first place, considering how many experienced, award-winning reporters there are in the United States.

Or it could be that Andrea Mitchell is too old to be delivering anything on the professional news level and this was her latest senior moment.