The coronavirus is the first big thing in a long time where you just can’t easily map people’s assessment of it to some prior ideological disposition. Everyone’s got their own heuristics and intuition about the risks. And for the most part, it’s hard to anticipate who lands where
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Boomers who remember the 1976 Swine Flu overreaction seem to be more skeptical. And journalists seem to be too young to write the think piece explaining why this is different, or at least I haven’t seen it for some reason though it’s the one that seems to be influencing Trump.
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But I guarantee somewhere in his head Trump is thinking Ford’s overreaction to swine flu cost him a close election.
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Ford was widely mocked for it at the time.
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