Perpetually Wrong Man Shares Good News About COVID

Economic adviser Larry Kudlow speaks to the press outside the White House concerning the effect of COVID-19 on the economy on March 16, 2020. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Friday confidently declared that there won’t be a second spike of COVID-19 outbreaks.

“I’m not the health expert but on the so-called spike, I spoke to our health experts at some length last evening,” Kudlow told the co-hosts of “Fox and Friends.” “They’re saying there is no second spike. Let me repeat that: There is no second spike.”

“And Secretary Mnuchin said yesterday in testimony, and I totally agree, we are not going to shut down the economy,” he added.

The White House adviser did not provide any names of the health experts he said he spoke to.

“There is no emergency, there is no second wave,” he insisted again a few minutes later.

Health experts do agree that “second-wave” is the wrong way to describe what is happening currently with the pandemic’s spread in the U.S. As health reporter and doctor James Hamblin and others have described it, there continues to be one “long wave” of COVID-19 spread. The U.S. is experiencing a plateau, with deaths and infection rates largely impacting minorities and vulnerable populations.

But despite Kudlow’s optimism, experts warn that economic reopening will inevitably cause spikes.

Kudlow has been prone to making rosy predictions about the pandemic that later prove to be utterly wrong.

In late February, the Trump official told investors that COVID-19 had been “contained,” then repeated the false claim again in early March.

“I will still argue to you that this is contained,” he said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” at the time.

Watch Kudlow below:

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  1. Perpetually Wrong Man Shares Good News About COVID

    How else can BLOTUS IMPOTUS possibly obtain the very bestest mostest highest quality information? When you need to make today and the future look brighter, just LIE YOUR ASS OFF.

    Be Best!

  2. Avatar for tena tena says:

    O for god’s sake.

    Well technically he could end up being right because the first wave is still rolling. Can’t have a 2d wave until the 1st is over and it’s not. It hasn’t even peaked yet.

    I read the best editorial this morning from a man over 60 who is as mad as I am about being thought of as expendable.

  3. Best and most accurate headline I’ve seen in quite a while.

  4. When the hell did this country stop looking to our elders for wisdom?

  5. Back in the 1890’s to 1910 or so, you will see in pictures that women’s skirts rose from the floor to about 6" up. Germs had been discovered. Society responded.
    “The U.S. is experiencing a plateau, with deaths and infection rates largely impacting minorities and vulnerable populations.”
    One of the things they did was institute sanitation regulations for everybody. Landlords were required to hook up to sewers, regulations about disposal etc. The poor were being taken care of in the sense that germs do not pick out who to infect.
    It is when these repubs get the idea that it is self protective to take better care of everybody that things will get better.

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