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Sanjana Varghese
Apr 16, 2020
Kellyanne Conway – one of the most, shall we say, "unique" figures in Trump's team – went on CNN earlier this week to talk about the US government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Trump had said earlier in the week that he would be pulling funding from the WHO after criticising the organisation as "China-centric".
During her appearance, Conway (the famous inventor of "alternative facts") said that as this strain of coronavirus is Covid-19, there were 18 strains before. She said, “This is Covid-19, not Covid-1 folks, and so you would think the people in charge of the World Health Organization, facts and figures, would be on top of that."
Kellyanne is so right- people should know the facts. And she is clearly one of those people- CO stands for Corona,… https://t.co/tYMDkvlphD— Martina Navratilova (@Martina Navratilova) 1586986653
On social media, users were quick to point out that Conway was wrong and misguided. The "19" in Covid-19 stands for the year it was discovered – another Twitter user also pointed out that the V, I, D stand for virus and infectious disease.
Some users emphasised that Conway was right about the importance of facts, particularly the ones she didn’t want to talk about – such as the Trump administration’s late action on Covid-19.
@revrrlewis People SHOULD know the facts. While Kellyanne is out there doing her usual blame game bullshit... there… https://t.co/aSGgqgMBMX— Jo (@Jo) 1586966955
Other users asked whether this was a mistake Conway made all the time. One even suggested that she might be getting Covid-19 confused with a film franchise.
kellyanne conway is confusing COVID with Fast and Furious movies https://t.co/yO6NdQ9b10— Sal Gentile (@Sal Gentile) 1586975950
Trevor Noah: "You would [Kellyanne Conway] would know that it’s called COVID-19 because it started in 2019. Not bec… https://t.co/dfvk3RmWGK— Marlow Stern (@Marlow Stern) 1587010879
Trevor Noah, the host of the Daily Show, suggested in a segment that Trump asks Kellyanne Conway to “say dumb things on purpose so that he looks smart in comparison.” He also asked, “Does Kellyanne Conway also think that they’re called Blink-182 because the first 181 Blinks were taken?””
Other Twitter users asked whether Conway knew that she was wrong, but was trying to shift the focus from the Trump administration and make WHO look bad.
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