BTW, lest you think I was calling out Candace Owens for her tweet about the baby specifically. To reiterate, you and I are on the same page there.
It is the timing with the rest of her tweets and retweets, all of which are about the numbers of COVID19 being overblown that is the point. . This is sort of typical for the twitterati who latch onto one reality piece and then expand. They can always "say yeah but look at this one piece!"
If that wasn't the trending at the same hour, I'd assume it was just politics and move on. Owens is simply using the baby point as a jumping off for the greater trending that is happening today on twitter.
The real point in this current twitter trend implying the "other side" is getting money to pump up the COVID19 numbers. Her immediate tweets afterwards...
View: https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1246556258095763456
View: https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1246557480106307589
The 12% reference to Italy has been a repeated soundbyte for weeks in the same circles.
It comes from an Italian doctor that said only 12% of coronavirus cases has no other comoborbdities. This is VERY different than Owens attempt in all of this that all the coronavirus deaths are vastly overblown. That's her eventual tweet and its not an accident.
She's been nudging that way for weeks
Federalist pushed the same 12% that Italy was intentionally over blowing its deaths.
All this stuff just gets stuck in an echo chamber and repeated until no one goes back to find out where it came from.