I'm curious how Fox News chose to push for denial rather than, say blaming it on international or ideological opponents.

Perhaps it's just that they can change course without any pushback from their demographic -- they're happy believing that we've always been at war with Eastasia. Still, it must cost them something to be quite so demonstrably wrong on something that's so much in people's faces. (As opposed to, say, climate change, where the effects are much slower and more easily shuffled under "the heat wave and fires are just weather".)

You know Democrats (media and Schumer's tweet) immediately accused Trump of sinophobia when he (appropriately) shut down travel with China?

This is really not the time for petty partisan politics. Both parties are propaganda machines. It is the nature of the two party system.

You mean Mexico. He wanted to shut the border with MEXICO, for no apparent practical reason, and refused at first to let Americans off a cruise ship, because he wanted to "keep the numbers low".

No, I mean China. I personally witnessed the tweet before it was deleted.

>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/chuck_schumer_q...

I think it's 33% distrust in governmental institutions, especially the liberal elite fake news CDC, 33% the fact that it's mostly hit large cities so far, and 33% the direct actions of the administration and the right wing media machine.

I think the fact that it's an election year, more people are susceptible to thinking the pandemic is overblown and thus a conspiracy to defeat Trump.