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Omicron Panic Porn

Posted on | December 5, 2021 | Comments Off on Omicron Panic Porn

Show of hands: Who’s worried about the COVID-19 Omicron variant? Not me, and probably not you, either, because you’re not watching CNN, MSNBC or any of the other liberal media outlets that are pumping out pandemic panic porn. Having spent months hyping the virus in 2020 as a weapon to damage Trump, the liberal media cannot switch messages now that Joe Biden is president. The fear narrative must continue, even while the media expect their audience to forget why it began:

We are less than a month away from entering 2022 — so why does it feel like March 2020 all over again?
Cable news networks are obsessively covering the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. They are hellbent on scaring the daylights out of any unsuspecting viewer who accidentally flips onto their programs. To be fair, the media is taking cues from the president. According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration is reportedly weighing up a seven-day self-quarantine for all travelers arriving on our shores, regardless of vaccination status, including US citizens and permanent residents. Travel bans, which fell out of fashion in the Trump years because they were “xenophobic”, are suddenly back in vogue.
It all begs the question: didn’t Joe Biden promise to shut down the virus?
Back in October 2020, then-candidate Biden — or whoever was running his Twitter account at the time — proudly tweeted, “I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m going to shut down the virus.” That’s right. Joe was going to shut down the virus all while eating ice cream, wearing aviators and saying things like “God love ya.”
Unfortunately that tweet has aged about as well as the president. The only thing Biden has shut down since taking over in January is the Keystone XL Pipeline.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll.) The narrative was supposed to be how Biden had “shut down” the virus for which Trump was blamed, but now that Biden has failed, the media can’t figure out how to change the subject.




 

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