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Former US Naval Intelligence Officer John Jorden says the “American public is starting to realise there is a tension between what the media is saying and the reality” of the coronavirus crisis.

Mr Jordan told Sky News all US states were beginning to reopen “to varying degrees” and people were “conflicted about it”. He said the media painted the early reopening as “a disaster,", with some warning "there’s going to be a lot of death and destruction and illness”.

“On a per capita basis they are doing better both in terms of infection and in terms of hospitalisation, and in terms of deaths than are the real militant lockdown states,” he said. “Americans are coming to understand risk of illness is not equally distributed across society – it is overwhelmingly concentrated towards older folks. “So if you protect those groups the risk is fairly minimal throughout the rest of society – that’s what those states that have opened up early have done.

 

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John Jordan ... Another US FOX News conservative commentator. Also a fund raiser for Donald Trump and former failed Republican candidates. I think his version of reality is heavily flavored with his political commentary.

Lol, wait, what, it's all bullshit? Just like here in Australia? Lying FakeNewsMediaClowns FakeNewsPandemic FakePandemic ...peddling fear and ruining lives

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