Covid Update October 8, 2020

 So last night was the night of the 2020 US vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. I tried to watch it, I really did, but Kamala was a real turn-off for me so I did just that, turned it off. She began the debate with misleading information about the Trump administration's initial response early on this year with what I understood as the claim that it was the month of March before Trump and his panel of experts took any action to notify the American people of the danger posed to Americans by Covid-19. By now I do realize that fake news has promoted this lie but for Kamala Harris to make the same claim on the debate stage with nobody doing any fact checking - well it was a bad way to start out the debate. Kamala went on to generously spice her dialog with other similar fake news disinformation and as near as I could tell nobody was fact checking using anything other than old (fake) news headlines.

Meanwhile President Trump who fell ill to covid last week seems to have recovered but if a person were to read this morning's headlines the President set a poor example by using an experimental treatment to save his life and make a speedy recovery. If I were to believe the mainstream media stream of disinformation the President should still be ill if not already dead. He did everything wrong by recovering so quickly and then going public with the cure.