Newsom Phases of Opening

[Mr Wiggins]

Truly I am being serious about this.

It's hard to take your "serious questions" seriously, in light of your previous statements about the pandemic:

Enjoy yourselves and stop living in fear. Really look at the numbers and they don't add up to make this thing as scary as the media is making it.

I don't believe the experts. The experts were the ones who said the number of people getting this "Virus' and the death amount were supposed to be way higher.

I have my opinion that this whole China virus thing is not as serious as is being made out to be. How can I be that close to these people and not get "infected?"

Final ride was Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. No fear here. Went to restroom afterwards, washed my hands, went home, and I am still not sick.

To me, and many others, the numbers just aren't matching to what is being broadcast. The news only focuses on the number of new cases and deaths to scare the heck out of everyone.

The US ranks #20 out 40 countries that have reported a death with a 1.76% death rate. To say we the US is near the bottom of the list can be interpreted many ways. Although we have the highest amount of infected (we are a large country), our death rate is lower than those of smaller countries. We must be doing something right.

I am so tired of people posting fake statistics. Everything you hear on the news is someone's opinion and just that, an opinion. Disneyland, Knotts, USH, MM, and all other parks will reopen soon. There is no way the USA will survive with businesses being closed down. Remember when this really hit the news, we were hearing 4% of people who had it were dying. The number is only around 1% for USA cases. Stop worrying. Enjoy life.

Those quotes mirror the themes and misinformation heard daily from Fox News, right-wing talk radio, right-wing social media, and the White House. Which is why I was not surprised to see you post the following specious disclaimers:

Never said it was a Democrat or Republican problem. However you wouldn't know that by looking at CNN. But my response was to Newsom's news conference. He recommends these closures, except for theme parks and casinos. I simply said he recommended to Vote yes on Prop 13 and no on 6. Thank you.

He [Governor Newsom] also recommended voting no on Prop 6 and yes on Prop 13. I really don't take him seriously.

And the most specious statement of all:

Has nothing to do with CNN or FOX or whatever political party someone belongs to.