LIVE BLOG: COVID Task Force Press Briefing for Trump's latest Trick Bag disinformation

Last updated on April 21, 2020

Live Blog below

5:00* PM EDT (*now announced for 530pm)

Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing

The White House

Trump is practicing the technique of “reflexive control”, by encouraging street demonstrations against his own guidelines using tweets and these pseudo-campaign rallies. It is reflexive because false consciousness has become a commodity.

….on Saturday, Trump referred to social distancing measures taken at U.S. Air Force Academy’s commencement ceremony as “politically correct”…

For example, tomorrow gyms and tattoo parlors will reopen in GA because its governor says it’s OK with social distancing. Darn political correctness.

Eighteen days ago, Kemp said he'd just learned about asymptomatic transmission. https://t.co/o585z6WHaz
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 20, 2020

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Doesn't seem to be forever, seems to be for right now, amid a divide in the advice POTUS has been getting about whether he should do it now.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 20, 2020

"in Wuhan more than 1800 teams of epidemiologists, with a minimum of 5 people/team, [were] tracing tens of thousands of contacts a day. Contact follow up [was] painstaking, with a high percentage of identified close contacts completing medical observation"https://t.co/EFIBVDDqA7
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) April 20, 2020

Our new video from the series "A guide to Russian propaganda" is here and it's about the top-secret Soviet technique of Reflexive Control, the art of manipulating your victims into making self-defeating decisions – all under the radarhttps://t.co/ilupKdgGTK pic.twitter.com/F47wUhH2wM
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) March 26, 2020

If you carry a hammer, you expect a nail.
If you carry a stapler, you expect some paper.
Who exactly do these people expect to kill? https://t.co/6GPr3FFBza
— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) April 20, 2020

A lot of the “liberate” footage is meant to make these events look big.

Here’s what the protest in Ohio today really looks like.

pic.twitter.com/0uxRuG0IxS
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) April 20, 2020

Coronavirus conspiracy theorists Diamond and Silk recently wondered if "somebody" can use 5G towers to infect people with the virus to fill supposedly "empty" hospitals. The two are Fox News hosts and surrogates for the Trump campaign. https://t.co/RxwUKMY9zd pic.twitter.com/WAt5u63vhW
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) April 20, 2020

US daily numbers via @COVID19Tracking:

Newly-reported deaths:
Today: 1,528
Yesterday: 1,654
One week ago (4/13): 1,450

Newly-reported cases:
T: 23K
Y: 27K
4/13: 25K

Newly-reported tests:
T: 138K
Y: 167K
4/13: 129K

Share of tests positive:
T: 17%
Y: 16%
4/13: 19%
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 20, 2020

another first-rate ad https://t.co/QuQ9KEHcCi via @YouTube
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 20, 2020

A Dozen Americans at the World Health Organization—Which Trump Has Falsely Said Kept Him in the Dark—in Fact Were Keeping Him Apprised All Along

@KremlinAnnex pic.twitter.com/TtCw2QWzkC
— Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) April 17, 2020

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