TOM MAGUIRE ON D-68: Moving To Phase II Of The Enterovirus “Coverage.” “The NY Times notes that the D-68 enterovirus is now claiming lives around the country and that people are concerned. That means it is time to move past ignoring this story and move to Phase II – cover it without asking any of the obvious follow-up questions.. . . Hmm. Didn’t we have an influx of central American children to the US this summer? Weren’t there concerns about diseases spreading in the holding camps? Weren’t the children dispersed all across this great nation? Well, yes, although the Feds aren’t forthcoming about where. That is too many dots for the Times to attempt to connect, so instead we get expert ruminations about Asia and Africa. . . . My initial guess was that since Texas was not showing up as one the early states with an outbreak, the disease was less likely to be associated with immigrants. As to that, who knows? But my other guess, that political correctness would require the media to steer away from exploring this possible link, has been utterly vindicated.”

Everyone has gotten so cynical.