Concerned CNN Panel Frets About How Trump’s Handling of Wuhan Coronavirus Crisis Makes Him Look Presidential

I reject these pompous nitwits.

I am inclined to agree with this piece by Lloyd Marcus.  I believe that we have overreacted to the Coronavirus. I believe continuous irresponsible reporting by the media, 24 hours a day, day after day, channel after channel, newspapers, magazines, etc. has created a panic. To a certain extent this panic has forced the President’s hand. He must take action to dispel the panic, even if the panic is based on false, media-driven perceptions. I think the President has taken actions he otherwise would not have taken. I don’t fault him for it. I do fault the media.

Here is a link to the piece:

How Long Will Americans Tolerate Corona-Madness?

Mr. Marcus may have taken the point farther than I would have. But I see a kernel of truth in all of his points.

DeBlasio – I’m allowed to go to the gym, but you are not…

I can’t think of a scenario in which that statement carries water, including the one we are in.

Trump Confirms He Is Shutting Off Southern Border To Illegal Aliens And Asylum Seekers

DHS Should Retract Expansion of H-2B Visa Workers

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— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) March 11, 2020

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— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 17, 2020

They will do and say anything to criticize the Trump Administration.

Has Cornavirus Been Here All Along?

Interesting analysis at the link based on previous years data.

When you didn't prep because prepping is for the paranoid. pic.twitter.com/mO9SaVG5pq

— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) March 16, 2020

The line looks like a Trump rally

Victor Davis Hanson:

“…Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby.

Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew every day on direct flights into the United States (Washington and California especially) from late November to the beginning of February, until the Trump travel ban of January 31.

All this laxity was also known to the Communist apparat in Beijing, which must have been amused when Trump was roundly damned by his liberal critics as a xenophobe and racist for finally daring to stop the influx on January 31 — the first major leader to enact such a total ban.

Yet, no thanks to the Chinese, America, so far, has been comparatively lucky — despite the grave risks of damaging a multi-trillion-dollar economy with the strictest quarantining, isolation policies, and social distancing in its history. Half the country lives in the interior away from ports of entry on the coasts. Medical care, sanitation, hygiene, and meat markets operate on different premises than in China, the supposed fated global hegemon. Transparency in a consensual society together with a free-market economy is encouraging tens of millions of citizens to work in tandem and independently to figure out creative ways to ameliorate the epidemic, politically, medically, socially, and economically. The result is that as of mid-March, the U.S., the world’s foremost immigration destination and among the most visited of nations, had suffered fewer virus fatalities than some European countries a fifth or sixth of its population size…

…Plus, 2020 is an election year — echoing how the 1976 swine flu was politicized. The Left and its media appendages saw COVID-19 as able to do what John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, the Mueller team, and impeachment could not: destroy the hated Trump presidency…

…The coronavirus could be the straw that breaks the proverbial back of the Chinese camel, stooped under the recent weight of a trade war with the U.S., the revelation of 1 million Uighurs in reeducation camps, the crackdown on Hong Kong democracy protesters, and news of the sprawling Chinese internal-surveillance apparat. The world is now both terrified and put off by China, and such anathemas will only harm its already suspect and misbegotten Silk Road neocolonial schemes…

…Although we cannot see it now, spin-off effects from the panic and frenzy will eventually fuel more economic recovery. Oil prices are nearing record modern lows, ensuring cheap gas for spring and summer American drivers. Cheap mortgages and car loans likewise will spur buying, as will relief once the virus wanes and splurging ensue.

It will be salutary for Americans to once again appreciate the value of muscular labor, as those who grow food, transport it, and provide us energy and sanitation while protecting us from danger, foreign and domestic, have allowed millions of Americans to stay home, sequestered and quarantined but safe with plenty of food, water, and uninterrupted sanitation and public safety. In these days of crisis, we should not forget that millions of often unmentioned Americans have made us the world’s greatest energy and most diverse food producer — a singular position that China, with over four times our population, envies…

…Call it paradox, irony, karma, or even tragedy, but China emerges from its deceit about the coronavirus outbreak in its weakest position since its Westernization began under Deng Xiaoping. And the U.S., after some rocky months ahead, if it stays calm, will likely reemerge in its strongest state in memory vis-à-vis its rivals…”

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Washington Examiner Editorial

“…Fifteen years ago, the United States was importing most of its oil — 12.5 million barrels per day, or nearly twice total domestic oil production at the time. Also 15 years ago, the U.S. was emitting about 20% more in greenhouse gases than it does today. Most Americans are glad that the U.S. has reduced emissions so much while simultaneously achieving energy independence — and it’s all due to fracking.

Unfortunately, both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders want to turn the clock back to the days of higher emissions and greater dependency on foreign oil. That is the certain practical result of the policies that both men outlined in their Sunday debate.

Biden promised to stop issuing leases for oil and gas drilling on federal land and offshore. He also promised to ban “new fracking.” In other words, he wants the newly energy-independent U.S. to go back to importing most of its oil from places such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Note that it was precisely this policy that turned the Middle East into a powder keg…”

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