Except for laidoff workers, about to see their unemployment checks shrink. To them, what you are about to hear must sound far different from spin, and close to, perhaps, contempt for the reality were all now facing. There has been no change. He hasnt changed, in fact, in just speaking about covid generally. The way i heard him talk in the oval office is the way hes talking out here. He felt the best way to get information to the American People was for him to be out here, answering your questions and providing this directly. No change, she says. And in fairness, perhaps shes right. Just not how she intended. You can make a case the president has consistently failed to take the pandemic seriously, and the only thing thats changed is hes now saying words, out loud, from a prepared script at the podium. These words, now, conveniently and deliberately ignore Everything Else hes said and done month after month, and death after death. For example, here is the president last night talking abo