Suppression of facts because Orange Man Bad
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In the video in question, Trump was heard speaking in a phone interview with Fox News in which he argued schools across the nation should be re-opening.
'If you look at children, children are almost — and I would almost say definitely — but almost immune from this disease,' Trump said.
'So few, they've got stronger, hard to believe, I don't know how you feel about it, but they've got much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this.
'And they don't have a problem, they just don't have a problem,' he added.
Deleted by the two social media giants of our time:
"This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” Facebook said in a statement.
It was the first time Facebook has removed a post by the president for violating its policies on COVID-19 misinformation.
Twitter also took action late Wednesday.
"The Tweet you referenced is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation. The account owner will be required to remove the tweet before they can tweet again," the company said in a statement to USA TODAY.
Except that it’s Trump who was speaking the truth and Facebook and Twitter are lying.
Here’s the latest (through Aug. 1) data on COVID-19 deaths from the CDC:
So the kids aren’t dying (saw a headline in a local paper this week, “child dies of COVID-19, youngest in state” and you had to scroll down three paragraphs below the scare headline to learn that the poor child was in the hospital recovering from a triple-organ transplant); what about merely infected, with or without symptoms? Anyone can Google that and found literally thousands of stories affirming what Trump said. Here’s the briefest of samples:
My point is, there is in fact a strong, provable consensus that COVID-19 poses little risk to children under 18. If the media doesn’t like this fact, fine; let it sulk, or trot out its own experts to refute it, but to suppress that information, and label the president a liar is dangerous to the republic. It does, though, reveal exactly what the agenda is here.
(UPDATE: Back to COVID deaths for a second, just for readers who prefer graphs to tables)
