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Networks Cut Away From Trump Virus Briefings Despite Massive Ratings
Cable and network broadcasters have started to cut away from President Donald Trump’s daily briefings on the CCP virus epidemic, despite their apparent popularity with Americans.

ABC, CBS, and NBC all covered Trump at the beginning of Monday’s briefing, which began about 6:10 p.m. ET. After 20 minutes, they switched to the network evening newscasts, never to return to Trump. The president spoke until shortly after 8 p.m.
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They switched away from the live presidential crisis response team briefing to a news broadcast? Sounds like a Monty Python skit.

A sampling of the justification -
“If the White House wants to ask for time on the network, they should make an official request. Otherwise we will make our own editorial decisions,” CNN commented on its decision.

MSNBC, through a spokesperson, said that “we cut away because the information no longer appeared to be valuable to the important ongoing discussion around public health.”
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Editorial decision? Those editors need to be fired -
Trump’s briefings have had droves of Americans tuning in, nearly tripling ratings for that time slot.

Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC attracted 8.28 million viewers for Trump’s March 20 briefing, with nearly half of them watching Fox. The audience for those networks a year earlier was 2.82 million, according to ratings agency Nielsen.
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Ratings aside, yeah, not news. Nothing important. Citizens don't need the info. This is really incredible. I am trying to imagine the beating Fox would take if they did something like this in a similar situation with Obama.

Once again, right out in the open, these partisan hacks are working against the President and against the best interests of the country.
 
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Ark hoarded TP. Told me he put it in a super secret place.
I'd tell y'all where, but you'd just go to his house and rip the drywall out trying to find it between the walls.
 
oneforthebus said:
They just said the British model that put everyone into a panic has been revised way down in number of deaths.

What a surprise.
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500,000 down to 20,000 in the UK. That should be criminal for the damage it has caused.
 
MTC said:
Same here. It’s been kinda nice to drive around and no traffic.
Downside is there is no leisure.

So I’ve been doing random runs to home depot to makeshift some racks my home gym.
A couple saw horses makes a nice squat rack and safety spot for my bench. I do want to invest in a power rack though.
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I have the full setup in my garage. The power rack is a must!
 
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oneforthebus said:
They just said the British model that put everyone into a panic has been revised way down in number of deaths.

What a surprise.
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Of course. Some of us smelled a rat from day 1.


Attention class: Can you say "Over-hyped panic?"



C'mon back Spike. The party's over.
 
Spike's feelings hurt. May not return.
 
Another reason not to trust Government to run healthcare.

https://www.propublica.org/article/...-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus

Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus
The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds of pages of documents ProPublica obtained.
 
IndySteel said:
No kidding. I love the lack of traffic though. That part is awesome.
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I posted a great pic on FB today of my office building's parking lot. My truck is the only one there.

In other Chinese Bat Soup Virus news, my surgeon's office called and cancelled my next appointment. I inquired about physical therapy since this was when they were supposed to schedule it. They said they would mail me a script and wished me luck finding a PT place that's open.
 
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oneforthebus said:
They just said the British model that put everyone into a panic has been revised way down in number of deaths.

What a surprise.
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Hold on, let me guess.... they didn’t factor in a month and biased everything high by claiming absurd contagion rates but then not using that to extrapolate the multitude of cases that went unreported because of testing blunders round tge world?

They overstated severity rate and death rate, then pushed every outlier case like it was commonplace...

The media used half truths and worse cases to write a horror story for a serious but not worldbreaking virus and turn it into a huge issue
 
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I wonder if all of the reduced traffic which will lead to much fewer accidents will ultimately mean fewer overall deaths than normal during this period. I mean just imagine a month or so of 0 traffic deaths. I have no idea what the numbers are normally, but i'd guess there are thousands of traffic deaths each month.
 
tapeANaspirin2it said:
I wonder if all of the reduced traffic which will lead to much fewer accidents will ultimately mean fewer overall deaths than normal during this period. I mean just imagine a month or so of 0 traffic deaths. I have no idea what the numbers are normally, but i'd guess there are thousands of traffic deaths each month.
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Don’t forget we saved the earth with all the lower emissions. So you know, more lives,...I guess. Greta gotta be happy right. .
 
madinsomniac said:
Hold on, let me guess.... they didn’t factor in a month and biased everything high by claiming absurd contagion rates but then not using that to extrapolate the multitude of cases that went unreported because of testing blunders round tge world?

They overstated severity rate and death rate, then pushed every outlier case like it was commonplace...

The media used half truths and worse cases to write a horror story for a serious but not worldbreaking virus and turn it into a huge issue
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I’m going the Soujorner conspiracy way.

This virus is a distraction for the epic bailout that just took place.
In other news. Us tax payers got ******
 
Steelr4evr said:
I have the full setup in my garage. The power rack is a must!
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I belong to a powerlifting gym so I’d always do legs there.
Wasn’t expecting society to shut down for some virus that the cdc can’t determine the symptoms.


Pretty bummed out if this quarantine **** last til July.
Ed Coan and Stacey Burr were doing a hands on seminar again.

My squats only cap out to like 230lbs here right now.
Doing 190lbs for 5 sets of 10 for the time being. Considering this a deload lol
 
MTC said:
I belong to a powerlifting gym so I’d always do legs there.
Wasn’t expecting society to shut down for some virus that the cdc can’t determine the symptoms.


Pretty bummed out if this quarantine **** last til July.
Ed Coan and Stacey Burr were doing a hands on seminar again.

My squats only cap out to like 230lbs here right now.
Doing 190lbs for 5 sets of 10 for the time being. Considering this a deload lol
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Pause for 4.seconds at the bottom of each rep. Problem solved. You can reverse it and take 4 seconds in the lowering phase. If that doesn't do it. Tske 4 seconds to lower,then pause for 4 seconds before you come up.

The other option is breathing squats. Load up and do sets of 20 without racking.

You can pre fatigue the muscles before you load up. You'll end up building muscle vs a ton of strength and your control under load will rocket up as well.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
I posted a great pic on FB today of my office building's parking lot. My truck is the only one there.

In other Chinese Bat Soup Virus news, my surgeon's office called and cancelled my next appointment. I inquired about physical therapy since this was when they were supposed to schedule it. They said they would mail me a script and wished me luck finding a PT place that's open.
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CharlesDavenport said:
Networks Cut Away From Trump Virus Briefings Despite Massive Ratings


They switched away from the live presidential crisis response team briefing to a news broadcast? Sounds like a Monty Python skit.

A sampling of the justification -

Editorial decision? Those editors need to be fired -

Ratings aside, yeah, not news. Nothing important. Citizens don't need the info. This is really incredible. I am trying to imagine the beating Fox would take if they did something like this in a similar situation with Obama.

Once again, right out in the open, these partisan hacks are working against the President and against the best interests of the country.
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His approval ratings are going up. They can't have that.
 
MTC said:
I’m going the Soujorner conspiracy way.

This virus is a distraction for the epic bailout that just took place.
In other news. Us tax payers got ******
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S'all right, I got my Bomma, err, TrumpMoney coming from his stash.
 
Steelr4evr said:
Pause for 4.seconds at the bottom of each rep. Problem solved. You can reverse it and take 4 seconds in the lowering phase. If that doesn't do it. Tske 4 seconds to lower,then pause for 4 seconds before you come up.

The other option is breathing squats. Load up and do sets of 20 without racking.

You can pre fatigue the muscles before you load up. You'll end up building muscle vs a ton of strength and your control under load will rocket up as well.
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Ooorrrr, do the wife against the wall. All kindz of leg workout. All kindZ
 
oneforthebus said:
His approval ratings are going up. They can't have that.
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They will do absolutely anything and so out in the open that it just makes me laugh at this point. They've never (collectively) figured out that Trump can be his own worst enemy and that they can sometimes be his best friend.
 
Steelworth said:
They will do absolutely anything and so out in the open that it just makes me laugh at this point. They've never (collectively) figured out that Trump can be his own worst enemy and that they can sometimes be his best friend.
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Yhe media and Dems feed into Trump’s success... they don’t understand him or what he is doing and they certainly don’t understand the logic behind his following

They shoot themselves in the foot chasing him like a white whale, and the reality is he isn’t even a fraction of theircreal problem...

They utterly exposed themselves as biased shills over him and his obnoxious trolling makes them out themselves more every time...

They lost all credibility to anyone outside of the hardcore base playing the role of the boy who cried wolf...

Look the end result of this event is going to be a polarized faction of one world government globalists pushing socialism for the masses, and nationalist extremist pushing isolation policies. Its going to be ugly and its about 80% the media’s fault...
 
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