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Collected Item: “Trump shifts from case count to death count and assures no second lockdown”

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Trump shifts from case count to death count and assures no second lockdown

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Tweet from US President

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Trump shifts narrative from cases going down to mortality rate dropping as US hits new daily case record. The President also highlights the "economy roaring back" as the nation reopens and notes that "embers will be put out" in regard to flare ups. Trump also highlights that there will be no second lock down in America.

I felt this tweet was important mainly for the narrative shift and the no second lockdown decision. I have noticed a new pattern emerge in government discussion of the pandemic in that the narrative has been switched to focusing on the low mortality rate to reconcile with the massive spike in cases. This new tone differs from the previous one which focused on the low case count when the cases were much lower. However, the most important part of the tweet was the assurance of no second lockdown. This has large scale implications for the short and long term future of the pandemic in the US, like the lessened likelihood of future stimulus checks and other federal assistance and the lessened likelihood of national cases dropping anytime soon.

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#hst, #485, #trump, #economy

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1276363261957603328?s=20

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@realdonaldtrump

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2020-06-25
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