Sunday, December 27, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: The MacIver Institute has already shown us how heartless right-wing nut jobs are wired

 


Fred Piccolo, spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, deactivated his Twitter account Wednesday after he tweeted in the middle of night that photos of each dead COVID-19 victim should be balanced with 99 photos of people who survive the disease. 
In response to a Reuters photo gallery on COVID-19, Piccolo wrote, “I’m wondering since 99% [of] Covid patients survive shouldn’t you have 99 photos of survivors for every one fatality? Otherwise you’re just trying to create a narrative that is not reality.” 
According to screenshots captured by Miami Herald reporter Ben Conarck and WLRN reporter Danny Rivero, Piccolo was responding at about 4 a.m. to a tweet by Corinne Perkins, the North America editor for Reuters Pictures. 
“This thread is dedicated to those saying we aren’t seeing images of the reality of COVID-19 in hospitals across the U.S.,” Perkins wrote. “This is not an exhaustive list but I wanted to highlight the stories @reuterspictures photographers bring to light.”



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Original 12/23/2020 post, "GET ME REWRITE:  The MacIver Institute changes its name to the Heartless Institute", starts here.

Here's how the nutjobs at the Uihlein-fueled, "free-market, individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government" MacIver Institute dismiss the virus. As if to say, "Oh, look at that. 4122 total deaths. How puny."



Other MacIver posts:
Scott Walker legacy: Act 10, not working.  (2/15/2019)
Hypocrisy alert: The free-market, individual responsiblity, limited government-lovin' MacIver Institute approves Wisconsin's $3 billion Foxconn dole.  (11/14/2017)
The MacIver Institute's Pavlovian response to an increase in the minimum wage.  (1/10/2014)


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