NYTimes: Coronavirus? "Let's call it Trumpvirus"

Gail Collins writes "opinion" pieces for the New York Times.  She edited the rag's editorial page for six years.  So her views likely mimic those of the rest of that rag.

Two days ago Collins wrote a piece--dutifully published by the Times--about the OMG-we're-all-gonna-die threat, the corona virus.  She titled the piece "Let's call it Trumpvirus."

Sub-head: "If you're feeling awful, you know who to blame."

Really.

Can you imagine the screams of outrage if around 2011 one of the biggest rags in the country had called the swine flu "Obamaflu"?

Of course no rag would have done that.  Wouldn't even have considered it.  But with Trump as president there's no limit to the vile accusations they throw, every damn day.

The Democrats have found what they hope will be their magic wand--the thing that will let them win in November:  Use their media power to link the virus to Trump a hundred times every day.  Plant the idea that any deaths are due to Trump's failings; that 99 percent of the inevitable deaths could have been avoided, IF ONLY we had a Democrat president instead of the awful, horrible, incompetent OrangeManBad.

Other Democrats, like Cali governor Gavin Newsome, will pour fuel on the paranoia by claiming that his state is monitoring 8000 or 20,000 or 100,000 "cases" of the virus (he actually claimed 8000, but it's all bullshit so one figure is as good as any other).  Of course the fact is that 8000 people in that state had a fever and cough (which is certainly true on any day of any year), so, well, it's ALMOST CERTAINLY THE VIRUS!!!!

And the scary, huge number made the stock market drop over a thousand points.

Mission accomplished.

If the Dems can crash both the market and the economy, they're confident they'll win in November.

And they'll consider that a great trade-off.
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Collins piece here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html