<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4957000859258242411WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Sure, but Trump didn’t say that however. </i></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">The title of the puff piece was "<span class="gmail_default"><b>WHITE HOUSE</b>: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> US taking  'very liberal' approach to counting COVID-19 deaths", so... ..the White House is saying it but Trump isn't saying it? Who said </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">'very liberal', a house that happens to be white?</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4957000859258242411WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span><i>Ambassador and head of the coronavirus task force, Dr. Deborah Birx </i></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">No. </span>Mike Pence<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is head of the </span></span>coronavirus task force<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, the same guy who bungled the AIDS virus epidemic when he was governor of Indiana.</span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4957000859258242411WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>said it.  It doesn’t matter if it comes from a very liberal website, for this does not give it inherent credibility.  Dr. Birx is still the source:</i></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Birx is the one who was standing 2 feet from Trump when he said on national TV that injecting people with disinfectant might be a good idea, and she said absolutely nothing to contradict him!</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/dr-deborah-birx-coronavirus-taskforce-trump"><font size="4">Birx risks reputation in bid to keep on Trump's good side</font></a><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">So far Trump hasn't been able to meddle with the official virus statistics.... but give him time...</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/5/14/21257247/trump-coronavirus-death-stats">Trump’s plan to limit the pandemic’s death toll: Undercount the numbers</a></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div>