| Don't Jump the Gun
Amid growing unrest in several states about the ongoing lockdown, Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging protesters not to demonstrate, and arguing that a premature reopening would “backfire.” “I think the message is that, clearly, this is something that is hurting from the standpoint of economics, from the standpoint of things that have nothing to do with the virus,” Fauci said on Good Morning America. “But unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery, economically, is not going to happen.”
He explained how going too soon or too fast could undermine the very thing the protesters are claiming to want.
Out of touch Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams said today that President Donald Trump could have much better approval ratings right now if he had taken the right approach in addressing the coronavirus pandemic. The president siding with the “fringe protesters” calling to reopen the country, Abrams said on his SiriusXM show, puts him “”out of touch with what Americans want, and what Americans want from him.”
Are there no consequences? Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is “lying” about the efficacy of the nationwide lockdown in diminishing the spread of coronavirus, his industry colleague Michael Savage said on Monday.
“Are there no standards in the media? no consequences for endangering lives?” said the bombastic conservative about the bombastic conservative.
A tribute killed by trying to kill Fox News
New York Magazine writer and Twitter hot-taker Jonathan Chait shared a New York Times article over the weekend, describing it as a “portrait of a man killed by Fox News.”
The article, from New York Times columnist Ginia Bellafante, is only slightly less explicit than the tweet in pinning death on the network.
Mediaite's Caleb Howe examines that, and a tweet from Bellafante that undermines the very finger that she's pointing.
Fabulously wrong
“Even well into the outbreak, Limbaugh has been spouting some fabulously wrong information,” said Last Week Tonight host John Oliver of talk radio's Rush Limbaugh.
It's part of this segment shredding all kinds of people for their historically bad takes during the pandemic.
Plain dumb
MSNBC’s Katy Tur went off Monday afternoon on some of the statements made by people gathering in protests against continued quarantine measures and calling for states to be reopened.
"That is just plain dumb, frankly. It’s just plain dumb," said Tur after a report on some of the protesters' concerns. | 
