illness. but in this case, what we have seen is it s migrated away from the fringe forums into really mainstream political rhetoric. so we have seen sitting governors, senators, the former president himself, repeating this and really not citing the facts about migrants being tested and quarantined at the border, which is the reality. so in your article, you said, and you re reiterating something here with the title, but you said blaming immigrants for the spread of covid-19 is a lazy but effective tactic that packs a double punch of disinformation. so does this ultimately boil down to just being some sort of a cheap political strategy? it is for sure a political strategy, and unfortunately, an effective one because what it does is it simultaneously scapegoats immigrants. that s dangerous because it crypts to us versus them thinking, and it also places the blame on the current administration s policies and the idea of liberal immigration policies in general being the