The lefties use all there tricks in this page/topic.
COVID is not a hoax, like the Russia or Ukraine bullshit the Communist/Democrats just fabricated entirely. COVID is real and it has made many people sick.
But COVID was hysterically exaggerated and that hysteria continues in this thread. Message bots like Aristotle keep exaggerating the risk for one reason, creation of a sense of dissatisfaction for the upcoming election. The communist left continues to "move the goal post" for the the conditions precedent to ending the shut down.
COVID is not close to the threat the almost entirely left wing public health community said it was going to be. In March April we were told tens of millions of cases and millions of deaths were certain. The left ran with the Imperial College study that 1-2 millions would die and perhaps 50 million infections in the coming "months". That hysteria was screamed 24/7 by the also primarily far left media. We were told 24/7 that the hospital system and infrastructure in the entire United States was collapsing and with some MSNBC an CNN message engineers claiming it had already happened. If you deny that was the coverage and the presentation you're simply lying to yourself or just lying. So the nation never had an intelligent conversation about the response to an appropriate risk level.
In March I posted on this site that the COVID risk was being greatly exaggerated for political reasons. Dems first attacked Trump for doing the first most sensible thing: ban entry into the US from the original source of the disease, China. I mean what motive other than virulent racism would prompt a travel ban for a country in which a novel and uncurbable virus had arisen and from which it was spreading, right? The Democrat responses was "come on in", party and parade. Then the deaths started.
Democrats opposed every measure the Trump administration took. Moron governors like Karen of Michigan and whatever criminal is now governor of Illinois (their govs are all criminals, its a bipartisan thing in the land of the Cheatin' Illini) actually banned hydrochloroquine because Trump suggested there was evidence that it mitigated the symptoms. Of course as millions of doses were administered world wide, and it did mitigate the symptoms if administered early, the Dems doubled down on murder, constantly attacking a well known drug in their media and embargoing any news that it worked. The klepto Communists that run FB and Twitter actually banned the doctors trying to discuss the viability of hydrochloroquine. The Commies kept this up after the CDC approved HCQ use in early cases and other countries with advanced medical science, like France, used it extensively with success. The morons attacked Trump for saying internal sunlight would help clear the lungs-like a guy with a degree from the Wharton School didn't know humans cannot internally consume actual "sunlight". Of course, the UV light, e.g. imitation sunlight, turned out to be an excellent therapy for COVID.
The blame Trump for everything is just simple revolutionary tactics right out of Lenin and Alinsky. If you've studied the history of revolutions anywhere you recognize the tactics. Robespierre, Lenin/Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Fidel, Pol Pot, Ortega and the Sandinistas, and whichever jerk offs are destroying Venezuela and Zimbabwe at the moment. Basically never let up, lie early, lie often, lie constantly. By the time one lie is disproven (Russia) the next lie starts (Ukraine). Politicize epidemics and natural disasters-the objective is to not let your opponent catch their breath and destroy them with constant attack through agitation propaganda. The United States is now at that point. Think May 1789 or October 1917 because the country is there. So if you think there's no difference in the election you are dreaming.
As for the COVID threat, the communists that run almost all of American non commercial enterprises, like every University in the Big Ten, are reduced to continuing the lies and, almost comically, claiming the worse is yet to come as a justification for the hardship and death they continue to cause. Then we learn bits of context, like the UI is releasing the number of positive tests, without disclosing in the same releases that the same people, already known to be C+, are repeatedly tested, hence elevating the public belief about the scope of the problem. It sounds like 32 different kids tested positive when you say "32 positive tests" without disclosing it might be 16 people tested twice or, more likely, four people tested 8 times each. In the law we call that fraudulent concealment.
The facts, based on the numbers CDC reports, COVID has not hit 2% of the population after 8 months of existence in the US. Half the cases have fully resolved. Today's numbers show only 2,896,427 have Covid, still under 1% active C+. The percentage recovering grows every day, as the mortality rate declines daily....and we are at least 8 months in. The symptomatic/a symptomatic ratio improves every day. The CDC no longer must think the a symptomatic are contagious because they no longer recommend testing even for a symptomatics that have had some contact with C+. Over 22% of the American population has been tested, 77,931,407 as of today, more than a million since Tuesday. We have enormous data sets with which to work. Obviously cases will increase as schools reopen but that is not really the issue here. The issue is whether the shut down must continue until there are no cases, a zero or near zero risk environment? The mere possibility that some small number of players, coaches or other people might get COVID cannot be the precondition of a shut down or it will never end.
Its a nasty virus. People die from viruses. In the case of COVID, far far fewer people have died than was originally projected. Now, crushed between 2 truths, either they fantastically exaggerated COVID or the US government has done a fantastic job of mitigating something akin to the Bubonic plague, the communist left bleat the same tropes they use on every subject, just an infantile reiteration of stupid, stupid, stupid snark and lies or distortion. Orange Man Bad.
Finally, this "absolute moral authority" that the communists use, on every subject, isn't truer here than in any of its other manifestations, and its really particularly stupid here. Sure, those of us opposed to the shut down of football want to watch football, that does not deprive us of morality or damn us with selfishness. The players that play it and the adults that coach it want to play/coach too. They are the people with the most at risk and they want to go. But they cannot "go" because others have decided that a tiny risk of harm to a very small number of people is sufficient justification to deprive everyone else of the enjoyment, and more importantly, the revenue earned from college football. So who has moral authority on this issue? Not the hysterics, to be sure-almost universally the shut down crowd has had no economic or health related impact from the shut downs.
But Sheeple, please wear your masks and show everyone how much you care.