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by daughart 1844 days ago
And the villagers were the ones to blame in "the boy who cried wolf".
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There was a need to rely on the boy who cried wolf at first, since he was the only one out in the fields.

There was never a need to rely on Trump. This was a pandemic. Basic journalistic curiosity and integrity should have meant that our "free" press should have been all over figuring out how COVID-19 came to be. Instead, they played politics with information that they could have easily looked into.