Wow. I must just be a rotten communicator
Or- you’re putting words in my mouth. If someone thinks we should start to carefully open the country back up does not mean that they think the lockdown was not prudent public policy. It means that given the data the smarter play for the rest of the country to benefit the most in the long term, and their opinion, is to open things up more quickly than we are. Again the alleged reason for lockdown was to flatten the curve but you have to admit the goalposts keep moving.
I'm not saying you're a bad communicator... But you've come off VERY aggressive in this thread. I will tell you honestly that I didn't get the sense that you were talking about carefully opening the country back up as much as it seemed like you thought we needed to end this lockdown NOW. Maybe I read into it though...
Yes, it was to flatten the curve. And the administration released their guidelines for opening up parts of the country, in phases, based upon meeting certain conditions regarding the actual case rates (showing declining trend over a 14-day period). To my knowledge, those conditions haven't yet been met.
and whether or not you agree I think it is fairly obvious to just about everybody that the media does have an agenda here and it does relate to trying to position this as a humongous negative against the current administration. Why else would they start censoring opposing opinions and only cover one narrative from one side? And before you dispute that, I understand there are many following that narrative that have openly admitted publicly that that is their narrative and that is a strategy
Note: I heard absolutely zero pushback when the administration released their guidelines for reopening. I heard absolutely zero pushback when my governor (Newsom) held a press conference announcing his framework towards reopening. The media wants to reopen the economy carefully too... Everyone's waiting for good news here!
There was a lot of negative pushback when the very day after his administration released quite reasonable guidelines for reopening the country, POTUS was tweeting "LIBERATE" to various states to embolden the protestors in states which absolutely had NOT met the conditions his own administration was suggesting were necessary to start reopening. There was a lot of negative pushback when he suggested doctors "look into" injection of disinfectant as a way to treat COVID.
Trust me, the media doesn't have to make him look bad; he's doing that well enough without their help.
I will add that it’s refreshing that you were talking about the world. Most of what you see and hear, again from the media and Talking Heads, only references other parts of the world if it points to their narrative. Otherwise they would have you believe that this is a United States problem only.
I don't really watch any media. So I don't really see and hear much of what they have to say. Most of it is worthless.