This article in the HuffPost on January 31 by Nick Robins-Early may be the most wrong thing ever written in the history of the internet, and we’re not using this hyperbole lightly. It’s really, really awful:

In the annals of "man that's a bad look, retrospectively" this one is going to rank as inner-circle Hall of Fame: https://t.co/Dawg1riWSr — Jeff B, fightin' the COVID one bootleg at a time (@EsotericCD) April 2, 2020

It’s “line for line, blow-by-blow comical wrongness”:

You really, really have to read the piece to fully immerse yourself in just how bad and wildly wrong about everything (and how right Cotton was about everything) it is. Line for line, blow-by-blow comical wrongness. — Jeff B, fightin' the COVID one bootleg at a time (@EsotericCD) April 2, 2020

We’ll start with the headline and sub-head that says “Don’t listen to Sen. Tom Cotton About Coronavirus” and “The GOP senator has spread misinformation and panic in a weeks-long meltdown over the disease”:

You see, this panic included a warning for Americans to leave China now and he called for the immediate “Manhattan project-level effort to create a vaccine”:

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has been on an absolute tear about coronavirus, calling for all Americans in China to “get out now,” demanding the U.S. implement an extensive travel ban targeting China proposing a “Manhattan Project-level effort to create a vaccine” ― a reference to the undertaking that produced the atomic bomb during World War II.

The screenshot really does belong in a museum:

This should be hung in a museum. https://t.co/sHTVNGeKaa pic.twitter.com/rg1qgDeFQm — JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) April 2, 2020

But then Robins-Early argued Cotton was being too hard on China:

China, which everyone acknowledges now has been less than forthcoming about the virus, was doing a great job back then as was the U.S. according to Robins-early.

The piece ends quoting health experts who advise “patience while they assess the true dangers of the outbreak and cautioned against the kind of fearmongering that Cotton has embraced”:

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