Willie robs the local store 19 times in a row. The local store is robbed. Thinking it might be Willie is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a logical null hypothesis to be disproved by evidence.
You’re right. Paranoia is the wrong word. I meant the paranoia that I put in my own head after reading the discussions here. Discussions here have mostly been very factual and realistic. Minus the nuclear war thing.
Let me get this straight. There’s no evidence at all that Trump interfered with the inner workings of the CDC’s testing response, but actually, the burden is on me to prove that Trump didn’t order the CDC to put guidelines in place to make it difficult to test for community spread of the virus? lol?
Costco person here. When my wife heard about the hoarding she was like “we’re all set, we already have three months’ worth of everything”.
It absolutely is a comfort/coping mechanism in my life, even without a crisis. I’ve actually talked about it in therapy and think that, all things considered, my need to have a huge surplus of non-perishable stuff stored in our house isn’t that big a deal. I’m not harming anyone, and it’s certainly a healthier reaction than the way I used to manage my insecurity and fear of scarcity.
Trust? No, of course not. But you also shouldn’t embrace conspiracy theories as your default position. Or if you do, at least put some effort into crafting a conspiracy theory that actually makes sense. Like Hillary murdering Epstein – there’s a conspiracy theory that actually has a somewhat sensible rationale. Your conspiracy theory of a purposefully-bungled response to this virus in order to…help Trump politically? Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Don’t forget Obama wouldn’t have disbanded the pandemic response team that was specifically charged with coordinating executive response to an event like this.
It makes all the sense in the world when you remind yourself that in Trumpworld there are only winners and losers and any President who allowed a virus outbreak to happen, like Obama did with ebola, is a loser.
“Incredible and successful effort”
“working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
“doing a fantastic job, as the numbers would indicate!”
Trump, as usual, has backed himself into a corner where the only possible outcome that will be good for him is unrealistically low numbers of people infected but you’re right, we can’t prove he wants the CDC to be hamstrung when it comes to testing.
They made the decision to override cdc and bring back the americans from that cruise ship after a dozen asymptomatic ones tested positive. And then had a diplomatic delegation meet them without masks or training and then let those people roam freely