More thoughts on Alex Berenson's cognitive dissonance (or less charitably, schizophrenia) -- challenging the mainstream narrative on Covid with one side of his mouth, reinforcing that same narrative with the other side of his mouth.
One side of Alex's mouth:
And for six months. #SARSCoV2 is not seriously risky to the vast majority of people. In fact if @who’s numbers are correct the death rate is much lower than has been reported.
Followed swiftly (in the same tweet, separated only by a paragraph break) with the other side of his mouth:
Trump’s illness is scary for him and his family. I hope he recovers...
Followed by another tweet:
But an even deeper tragedy will be if the media uses his illness to frighten people unnecessarily and push us toward policies that take away our rights, hurt our economy, and most importantly damage our kids.
And unfortunately that’s already happening.
Well, unfortunately it's already happening because the mainstream does that with Covid in general, and Alex is participating in (and thereby reinforcing) that very same panic rhetoric he's otherwise decrying in the quotes above.
As I tweeted there:
Hesperado
Alex is subtly reinforcing the Mainstream (whether he knows it or not). The vast majority of people had nothing to worry about these past 6 months from Covid. Trump and his family have NOTHING to worry about from Covid; and EVERYthing to worry about from the treacherous Swamp.
Then I noticed someone named "Squidink" level an apt riposte:
"But an even deeper tragedy will be if the media uses his illness to frighten people unnecessarily" and yet you write: "Trump’s illness is scary..." Speaking out both sides of yer gob much?
To which I responded:
Hesperado
Yep. Alex has been doing that for months, in a variety of subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways. His fan base (choir) doesn't seem to notice, and when I have pointed it out here in tweets over the months, I get like 1 or 2 likes and zero comments LMMO (Laughing My Mask Off).
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