A Newsmax Reporter Asked A Bizarre Question That Baffled Deputy Press Secretary: “I Don’t Understand The Question”

Well, that was weird.


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A Newsmax reporter asked a question that can be easily answered by Googling that baffled White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. And let’s face it, Newsmax and Fox News are not serious networks when it comes to COVID-19, and now there’s the Delta Variant that’s been rapidly spreading. The two networks are, however, excellent at spreading misinformation amid the pandemic. A simple Google search will tell you that COVID-19 tests do not detect which variant is involved. The variant identification requires genomic sequencing, which is a process separate from regular virus tests.

Still, during the White House press briefing, a Newsmax reporter asked Jean-Pierre, “How do you know test whether it’s the dominant strain in the area when people just test whether they’re COVID-positive?”

“We don’t test it, we listen to public health and scientists, and they tell us it’s the delta variant,” Jean-Pierre explained.

The reporter pushed the question to which Jean-Pierre said, “I don’t even understand the question. That’s what they are telling us. I just laid out how contagious it was.”

The apparently confused Newsmax reporter then appeared to complain that a lot of answers we are getting about public health questions are “because [public health experts] say so.”

“Well, they’re the experts,” Jean-Pierre said.

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The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox, and that’s a huge concern. The best defense is to get vaccinated against a variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus. Still, of course, some Fox News and Newsmax talking heads have been downplaying the coronavirus. So, her gotcha’ question wasn’t even cute since we’re stuck in the pandemic due to many Americans refusing to take a simple vaccine. This didn’t have to be this hard. Trump unleashed the screaming Karens, and so, here we are.

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