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Karen was not misquoted. Other countries opened schools after covid cases were controlled because their leaders got people to socially distance and wear masks, which Trump refuses to do.What a disgusting POS. He should be banned from WH briefings.
CNN's Jim Acosta blasted for taking Kayleigh McEnany out of context in viral tweet
CNN's chief anti-Trump reporter Jim Acosta was blasted on social media over a tweet that quoted White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany out of context.
During Thursday's briefing, McEnany reiterated President Trump's strong stance on wanting children to be going back to school in the fall amid a fiery debate about how educators can prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
"The science should not stand in the way of this, but as Dr. Scott Atlas said -- I thought this was a good quote, 'Of course, we can do it. Everyone else in the Western world, our peer nations are doing it. We are the outlier here,'" McEnany said, quoting the former Stanford Medical Center neurology chief.
"The science is very clear on this. For example, you look at the JAMA pediatric study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than the seasonal flu. The science is on our side here. We encourage localities and states to just simply follow the science. Open our schools," she continued.
However, Acosta tweeted about what McEnany said by suggesting she was anti-science.
"The White House Press Secretary on Trump's push to reopen schools: 'The science should not stand in the way of this,'" the liberal reporter tweeted.
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CNN's Jim Acosta blasted for taking Kayleigh McEnany out of context in viral tweet
CNN's chief anti-Trump reporter Jim Acosta was blasted on social media over a tweet that quoted White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany out of context.www.foxnews.com
Except for the fact everywhere I go I see people social distancing and wearing masks.
Accosta was bang on. The "other countries" where schools are re-opening first eliminated the infections. Trump and is his minions never mention that. They didn't try re-opening schools when they were leading the world in infections and deaths. They re-opening the schoola when they had a handful of cases, and no new outbreaks.
Our schools haven't announcing re-opening, but we are getting ready for Phase 3, within the next week are or two. We're now having gatherings of up to 10, and expanding our "safe groups". Despite some silly outdoor behaviour over the May 2-4 weekend, we haven't spiked horribly, or had to go back to lockdown. If anything, people are getting too cocky up here, but then the municipalities and stores are now demanding masks, so that set the anti-maskers back.
You believe a virus was eliminated. That's just dumb.