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If Dick Thornburg was a real life character how do you think he would feel about the Covid 19 pandemic?


I can imagine him doing the same things social media did by causing a huge panic over the Covid 19 virus, I'm not underestimating the Covid 19 disease but I do feel they blew it out of proportion.

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He would have hidden camera set up in hospitals and spend months collecting every little infraction someone might commit. Maybe a nurse at the end of a 12 hour shift forgot to change her gloves once, or while rushing to an emergency patient a Doctor forgot to wash his hands. Or lab results weren't put into storage as quickly as they should have been since the hospital is understaffed and overcrowded. Then once he accumulated enough incidents he would edit them to make them look as bad as possible and present them in a way to make it seem like the hospitals are a mess. He would then hype his big expose on the horrific conditions at the hospitals and how they are the reason the virus is still spreading.

And he would claim to be doing it as his "journalistic responsibility" but it would just be his way to up his national profile, and it would end up hurting hospitals even worse.

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Like most mainstream news media clowns, he would be sensationalizing it in an attempt to panic uninformed people (unfortunately the majority) and keep the hysteria going as long as possible.

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It's a shame that the mainstream news media clowns are getting rich and wealthy off of sensationalizing it an attempt to panic uninformed people to keep the hysteria going as long as possible, while COVID is a gnarly disease I do wish it was handled differently.

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He’d be ambushing people without masks and blaming them for the spread of Covid without having any evidence to support his claims

Just like our media is doing today with those opposed to the ineffective “vaccine” mandate.

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Considering he threatened to call the INS on the Housekeeper, I’d say he would now be in Fox News fear mongering about Immigration and pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

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