Against the narrative/Do as I say, not as I do

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52189349


According to multiple sources, the number of firearms sold in the US reached a new monthly high in Marsh.   Roughly 3 million new firearms were sold in March.  Yet, for some reason we've not seen a rash of mass shootings during this same period. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/04/07/trump-has-small-distant-link-to-sanofi-french-drugmaker-of-hydroxychloroquine/#2c0d2adc7260

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-malaria-drug.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0J9OmWUf0Szvu3hMI_pGyrBmYNaYE1kC6-EkG4oiowAf7uXw4I7uyWoQY

The other bid "news story" is the narrative about Trump profiting from the possibility of Chloroquine becoming widely used for the Wuhan Virus.

Unfortunately, this narrative is pretty much one more bit of fake news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/07/trumps-promotion-hydroxychloroquine-is-almost-certainly-about-politics-not-profits/

Of course, it's also true that Chloroquine is a drug that has been around for years, is out of patent protection, is manufactured by multiple companies, and those companies are donating millions of doses.

I posted this link somewhere else, but it's still got some great information.

https://winteryknight.com/2020/04/07/so-much-good-news-in-the-battle-against-the-chinese-wuhan-virus/

There are multiple links in the post for the different stories.

It's just interesting that there seems to be in increase in stories and narratives that aren't actually what they appear to be.

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/how-can-coronavirus-models-get-it-so-wrong

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/06/americas-most-influential-coronavirus-model-just-revised-its-estimates-downward-not-every-model-agrees/


Now we see that we've shut down the economy of the entire country based on models which have been  shown to bear little relationship to the actual facts.   Yet the second story seems to want to continue the commitment to the models showing worse outcomes.

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491558-chicago-mayor-defends-getting-a-haircut-amid-coronavirus

The mayor of Chicago is in full "Do as I say, not as I do." mode.  

https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/de-blasio-defends-exercising-in-prospect-park-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-city/all-de-blasios-covid-19-missteps.html

Meanwhile DiBlaso violates his own "stay at home" orders to take multiple walks in a park (miles from his mansion, traveling in a chauffeured SUV), as well as at lest one trip to the gym.  Not to mention the other stupid acts detailed in the second piece.