Covid Numbers and Who to Believe?

The Radical Centrist
5 min readAug 31, 2020

So Trump’s CDC has all of a sudden changed up how they have reported Covid deaths and the internet has lost its collective mind (again). The reactions are split completely along party lines (again.) Those on the Right are seeing it as evidence of a “If it bleeds, it leads” corrupt main stream media (MSM) desperate to report any and all things negative it can about Trump. They also see it as Democrat corruption, particularly at the governors level, to try and destroy the “Trump” economy. On the Left, they see this new Covid counting mechanism as intellectual dishonesty, a deliberate miscounting of…

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The Radical Centrist

Just your average pragmatic American living in these decidedly extreme times.