Civility, am I right?

The partisan response to coronavirus has been fairly appalling to this point. We’ve seen the news media and other journalist outlets almost openly root for deaths and a growing pandemic. Why? Because they think it’ll damage the economy enough to stifle Trump’s momentum going into November.

Donald Trump Jr. was at CPAC earlier today and commented on the matter, pointing out that many members of the media were being overtly political in their panic inducing coverage. This apparently didn’t sit too well with Rep. John Garamendi from California.

.@RepGaramendi suggests he might beat up @DonaldJTrumpJr
for saying some Dems hope the Coronavirus will spread to make Trump look bad:

“He should not be near me when he says that, there would be a serious altercation” pic.twitter.com/6vyYXN6VOh

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 28, 2020

Yes, that’s a sitting Congressman responding to criticism by threatening to beat someone up. How capable he is of doing that, who knows, but it’s certainly an odd response from the party running on a “return to normalcy” narrative.

The truth is that Donald Trump Jr. is right. The news coverage has been disgraceful and it’s spreading widespread panic that simply isn’t backed up by the data. Is coronavirus something we should take seriously? Absolutely. Is it going to kill us all and take down our economy? Almost certainly not.

2) Because the majority of the cases are mild and dont require hospitalization, Italy wll only be counting severe cases going forward in an effort to accurately communicate the level of severity/public health risk and cut down on panic.

— Alicia Smith (@Alicia_Smith19) February 28, 2020

Clarification on point 2 since some have questions: The mild cases will still be reported and recorded, but they will be on a separate list/count rather than lumping all the cases together to one big total. Theyre just distinguishing the level of severity in each case

— Alicia Smith (@Alicia_Smith19) February 28, 2020

As I’ve speculated before, the much ballyhooed mortality rate of coronavirus is likely overblown. That mortality rate is almost wholly based on deaths within China, who’s communist regime has mismanaged the ordeal from the beginning. When you get outside of the China, the actual mortality rate is closer to .5 and even that is based on deaths in sub-par healthcare systems. America’s healthcare prowess would likely show the rate to be even lower.

But instead of trying to bring levity to the situation, Democrats like Garamendi are talking about beating people up, because that’s helpful. These are not serious people.