Sad CNN Wonders: ‘Why Are Cases Declining as Nearly All U.S. States Reopen?’

NewsBusters.com:

Everyone send CNN positive vibes they were perplexed Friday afternoon over how coronavirus cases were declining as more states begin to reopen their economies. Put another way, this drove a dagger through the heart of CNN’s campaign of apocalyptic rhetoric, indefinitely lockdowns, and Trump hate. 

During the second of two segments on the topic in the 1:00 p.m. Eastern hour, one could sense their disappointment in this chyron: “Coronavirus Pandemic; Why Are Cases Declining as Nearly All U.S. States Reopen?” So much for their partisan nonsense warning that any reopening anywhere and anytime soon would spell death and doom. 

Host Brianna Keilar led off with the tidbit of how “[a]t least 15 states are reopening today or entering a new phase all with guidance that people stay socially distanced” and then brought in correspondent Tom Foreman to break down rates of infection across all 50 states. 

Foreman started by trying to tamp down on reopenings, asserting that the “number of infections” are “going up” and we shouldn’t “forget that” even though there are only about seven states seeing an increase of at least 10 percent from the previous week.