Let’s see how strong your capacity is to believe something that is not believable.
From Ryan Grenoble’s article at huffpost.com, via yahoo.com:
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico hasn’t been on the campaign trail recently because he has the flu, he told the Hispanic Business Council via Zoom last week, noting the illness was bad enough he visited an urgent care in Dallas.
“I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago, and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas and I was diagnosed with the flu and so I’m running a fever and I’m at my most contagious right now,” Talarico told the council.
Texas has seen neither hide nor hair of James Talarico for one day short of two weeks. Not “recently” but two weeks.
And this is due to a case of flu – which, for most people, lasts 5 – 7 days???
How’s that for a believability stretch.
First of all, people who get the flu tend to deal with it – often just get up and go to work every day. They almost always are back in commission before the flu is over.
Secondly, if Talarico’s flu were so bad that he had to be out of commission for two weeks (and counting), – twice as long as a normal flu – he probably should have been in a hospital. But there’s no indication he was.
Thirdly, if you’re in a tight-as-they-come political race, and this is the last month before the election, you fight through an illness like flu and make campaign appearances. As noted earlier, people, as a matter of course, go to work with the flu all the time. Talarico has disappeared from view for 13 days so far.
Is there something more in play than the flu? I can’t prove it, but logic strongly suggests that there is.
Maybe mainstream media will finally develop enough curiosity to demand answers from the Talarico campaign. That would be a nice change from the fact tha most are happy to look the other way so far.
And maybe we’ll finally find out what really is happening in the next couple of days.
When we do, I’ll be talking about it. That’s a promise.
