The Morning Report - 3/16/20

Good morning, kids. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride this week and probably for the next month or so. The Chinese Coronavirus, Oriental Plague, Yellow Fever International Silver String Submarine Band is now spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of panic. The thrill of short selling, the agony of no toilet paper. As travel bans are enacted, events cancelled, Broadway theaters going dark, schools closed until April and the world seemingly sealing itself inside its homes after smearing sacrificial lamb blood on the door to ward of Malach ha Mawis, there seems to be something missing and I can't quite put my finer on it. What could it be? Wait, I've got it. An actual mass death toll. So far in the USA alone, the last time I checked we have a grand total of 60 victims. Yes, I know that in China, where this plague came from (and as some are speculating as a possible biological warfare experiment or even intentional attack) the estimated toll is a few thousand dead. And it's estimated because, for the benefit of anyone completely insane enough to support Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, China is a brutal, totalitarian regime that believe it or not lies and propagandizes to insulate itself on its quest for global domination. That said, the disease is said to be finally quelling in China and that the hotspot now is Europe, particularly Italy. But I digress.

Back to the reality check, according to this Australian news site, since the Chinese Coronavirus was first announced 69 days ago, as of this morning:

Total number of confirmed global cases = 170,150
Total number of confirmed global deaths = 6,513
Total number of confirmed recoveries = 77,254

Two things to bear in mind as you don your Level 4 biohazard suit after gargling with Purell and molten zinc, the world population stands at 7,800,000,000. That's 7.8 billion for you Leftists. The other thing is that last number, or more significantly what it represents: people who have recovered from the virus. That means if you're unlucky enough to come down with it, and in a nation of about 315 million and given the numbers cited, the odds right now are still kind of long, unless you're respiratory system is compromised or you're an elderly person the worst thing you'll experience is a very bad flu. Or am I wrong about that?

Seriously, I'm only going off of what I know about this virus and nowhere can I find any actual information on its pathology. Yes, I know the numbers are cold comfort to anyone who G-d forbid comes down with it or worse, has a friend or relative who succumbs to it. But given what the media is reporting, how our officials are reacting at the federal, state and local levels, and more disturbingly how our economy is affected (malevolently or otherwise), this whole thing just does not add up.

I really am at my wits end with this. And frankly, I smell rats all the way around with this. Ironic considering that 2020 is the year of the rat in China. From Anthony J. Ciani at American Thinker:

If COVID-19 (scientifically known as SARS-CoV-2) had started in Singapore or Taiwan, it would have traveled the world, infected billions of people, killed millions, and there wouldn't have been a single peep about it. "But it kills people," you cry. That is what cold and flu do, especially to the elderly and those lacking basic medicines. The world is panicking over a virus that causes mild colds in the vast majority of cases. Amid the panic, China is profiting as it buys up stocks at bargain-basement prices. Instead of engineering a pandemic, did China engineer pandemonium?...

As usual, Victor Davis Hanson has an in-depth analysis for both Trump and America at large when we come out the other side of this madness:

...When the virus peters out and the panic fades, China may be permanently rebranded and recalibrated by the world at large. Its trading partners will trust it far less to honor any commitments or to abide by any international agreements. Supply chains will be diversified. Tourism will be reduced in fears another such coronavirus will follow SARS and COVID-19 - and be hushed up. Countries that had particular close commercial and cultural ties with China - Iran, South Korea, and Italy - were hurt most during the epidemic by Chinese silence and duplicity...

Ostensibly, the panic-driven shutdown of the U.S. economy could plunge us into recession or worse, with dire consequences for the 2020 campaign. Some on the Left see COVID-19 in unapologetically political terms, as the magic solution to ending the Trump presidency and his supporters in a way that all the past hopes and dreams of doing so - from subverting the Electoral College after the November 2016 election to Mueller and impeachment, and all in between - utterly failed.

Whatever the ultimate human and economic toll from the coronavirus, there is no doubt that Trump, as president, will be blamed for the economic slowdown of spring and perhaps even early summer. The media despises the president as does entertainment, academia, and the media, ensuring in popular culture and the news that he will be demonized in a way Obama was not, despite reacting far more slowly, to the swine flu threat of 2009.

But here are some caveats. Warmer weather and spring, global quarantines, travel bans, more testing and increased knowledge of the virus may all eventually conspire to slow its spread. And when its relative non-lethality is fully digested (perhaps 98 or 99 percent of those in the general population below 65 in previously good health who are infected recover), and the cases begin dropping off, the economy will not just recover but take off...

As I said up top, fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy ride.

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Trump Declares National Day of Prayer for Americans Affected by Coronavirus and National Response Efforts
  
• Devin Nunes: "Media and the Left" Are "Putting the Country Into a Panic" for "No Reason"
  
• NY Gov. Cuomo: "The Facts Do Not Justify the Fear" (of all the people to speak the truth - jjs)
  
• The Wuhan Virus Escaped from a Chinese Lab
  
• Did China Panic the World and Steal Our Wealth with a Common Cold?
  
• President Trump Tests Negative for Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Fauci Favors National Shutdown: "You Don't Want to be Complacent"
  
• CDC Recommends Canceling, Postponing Gatherings of Over 50 People
  
• Tens of Thousands Pack "Vive Latino" Music Festival in Mexico City Despite Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic
  
• Pence: White House Will Announce Today New "Recommendations for the Public" on Social Distancing
  
• "Only Essential Services Should Remain Open": New York City Comptroller Calls for Total Shutdown
  
• DeBolshevik Lays Out His Case for Nationalizing "Crucial Factories and Industries" Amid Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic (they're all in China, schmuck!!! - jjs)
  
• CDC Director: "Europe Is the New China"
  
• Italy: Chinese Coronavirus Death Toll Jumps 25 Percent; Exceeds 1,800
  
• Germany to Close Borders Amid Chinese Coronavirus Outbreak
  
• Angela Merkel is Conceding Defeat to Coronavirus
  
• "Missing a Tablespoon of Blood": Quincy Institute Scholar Laments Lack of Violence Amid Corona Outbreak in Israel
  
• Ohio Health Director Walks Back Wild Estimate of 100,000 Chinese Coronavirus Infections in State
  
• Rabbi Fischer: The Real Threat to Our Democracy During Coronavirus (while Dems played impeachment games, we were vulnerable to Yellow Plague - jjs)
  
• Kimball: This Is an Emergency!
  
• Say Your Prayers and Take Your Chances
  
• Remember the H1N1 Pandemic? I Don't Either
  
• V.D. Hanson: America In a New Upside-Down World

  ECONOMIC IMPACT OF YELLOW PERIL
  The big items here include the Malig-Nancy Pelosi boondoogle emergency bill gets revised as responsible folks like Go-Go Gohmert attempt to beat the clock and try to get the hidden surprises removed, the Fed slashes interest rates to near-zero while buying bonds to buffer the economy, and Sec Mnuchin sees a slowdown and not a recession. Lastly, the pain we are going through will hopefully be a wakeup call about our horrible surrender of much of our economy to the Chi-Coms.

• Revised Chinese Coronavirus "Boondoggle" to Return to House Floor for Unanimous Consent Vote
  
• Why the Malig-Nancy Pelosi Wuhan Virus "Deal" is a Near-Total GOP Surrender for Blue-Collar Entrepreneurs
  
• Fed Slashes Interest Rates to Near-Zero, Buys Bonds to Buffer Economy in Chinese Coronavirus Outbreak
  
• Mnuchin Sees Chinese Coronavirus Causing US Slowdown But No Recession
  
• The Chinese Coronavirus Will Save America

  BIDEN-SANDERS DEBATE
  I didn't think the Democrat debates could get any worse than the multi-vehicle car wrecks of the past six months, but Biden vs. Sanders in a near empty TV studio went about as well as you'd think. While Biden didn't have any truly major gaffes, aside from transposing the letters on "H1N1," he did blame Africa for ebola, pimped absolute open borders even for Coronavirus carriers and called for the shutting down of the petroleum industry. Meanwhile he and Sanders both got into it over which one was more in the pocket of dark money donors, each promised to have a Dem dame as a running mate while Bernie, trying to defend himself for his love of Castro, praised the Chi-Coms. The result of "grumpy old men" rattling their dentures at each other was yet another Trump victory.

• Biden, Sanders Debate in Near-Empty DC Studio; Breitbart Live Blog Transcript
  
• At-Risk Elderly Duo Defy CDC Wuhan Guidelines, Debate in Public Over Which One Will Lose to Trump
  
• Bernie Sanders on Coronavirus: First Thing, "Shut This President Up Right Now"
  
• Commitments to Female Running Mates Overshadow Chinese Coronavirus at One-On-One Biden-Sanders Debate
  
• Biden Calls "H1N1" Virus "N1H1," Then Calls Ebola "What Happened in Africa" (I thought he was going to sing a Kinks hit - jjs)
  
• When There Was Just Biden and Bernie
  
• Trump Wins Dem Debate: Bernie Strikes Out as Biden Fails to Flop
  
• Goodwin: Biden Shows Once and for All Why He Deserves Dem Nomination
  
• Biden and Sanders: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  
• Biden: Illegal Aliens with Coronavirus Will Not Be Deported from US
  
• CNN Debate Moderators Gave Joe Biden a Pass on South Africa Mandela Lie
  
• "No New Fracking": Biden Calls For High Speed Rail to Move US Away From Oil Drilling
  
• Biden Retreats In Attack On Sanders After Getting Called Out
  
• Bernie Lauds Chinese Dictatorship in Attempt to Salvage Defense of Castro
  
• This Is Trending on Twitter After the Biden-Sanders Debate... And It's Perfect!

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
  With Biden more than likely getting the nomination, the Bernie Bolshevik brigades are threatening a mass exodus of the party if that happens, don't be fooled about Joe as a moderate, two interesting prognostications about which black woman will get his veep slot, Georgia follows Louisiana in postponing primaries due to Oriental Peril, Clarice Feldman on Trump's Chinese Lung AIDS actions exposing Democrat policy madness, and the stereotype of Democrats as the party of the little guy is totally exploded.

• Bernie Bros Warn of "Mass Exodus" if Joe Biden Gets Democrat Nomination
  
• "Never Biden" Movement Growing Among Bernie Supporters
  
• Since When Is Joe Biden a "Moderate?"
  
• Is Trump Ready For Biden-Obama 2020? (let the Wookie take over? - jjs)
  
• Jeepers Veepers! (predicting Kamala-Toe - jjs)
  
• Bernie Sanders: Mortally Wounded in California, Deathblow in Florida
  
• Georgia the Latest State to Postpone Primary Due to Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Trump's Ultrasonic Whistle Exposes Vermin Infestation
  
• Deep Pocket Democrats Intend to Buy Congress
  
• The Democrats' Project Fear Will Fail

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION, SHAMPEACHMENT
  Justice for Michael Flynn at long last? I hope so. Also, Margot Cleveland ponders who Stefan Halper really worked for.

• Trump "Strongly Considering" Full Pardon for Michael Flynn
  
• Cleveland: Did Spygate Source Stefan Halper Work For the Hillary Clinton Campaign?

  JOE BRIBEM, HUNTER BRIBEM UKRAINE, CHI-COM, OTHER SCANDALS
  US taxpayers foot the bill for Hunter Biden to get his monthly $80,000 Ukrainian bribe money. What a country!

• Hunter Biden's Foreign Visits Cost Taxpayers $200,000

  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  James Clyburn is a tiresome, tedious, irksome, sub-literate, mouth-breathing fraud. And a dangerous one at that.

• James Clyburn Compares Trump to Hitler, Could Make America "Germany in the 1930s"

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  Andrew Gillum's punishment? Bernie Sanders picks him as a running mate. Also, Steve Bullock who both blasted dark money and promised not to run for Senate, takes the money in the race he said he wouldn't run.

• Man Found in Hotel Room With Andrew Gillum Reportedly a Gay Escort
  
• Florida Dem Andrew Gillum Announces He's Entering Rehab for Alcoholism and Male Ass But Mostly Alcoholism - jjs)
  
• Dark Money Juggernaut Gets Behind Steve Bullock, Who's Long Derided Influence of Hidden Money

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  So, Mexico considers sealing the border yet holds a mass music concert in the capital. Also, Dems know they're wrong on travel bans and quietly stop protesting, travelers coming back from overseas wait hours for the government to help, fake virus test kits confiscated at LAX, Alopecia Pressley sez Amerikkka got a fevah and the cure is freeing ICE detainees and convicts, and a spark of divinity boy has cops inflict rape-us interruptus.

• Mexico Now Considering Shutting Border With United States Over Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Democrats Suspend Their Attempt to Limit President's Travel-Ban Authority
  
• Travelers Returning on Final Flights From Europe Wait Hours for Health Screenings, Immigration Checks
  
• Immigration Officials Seize Suspected Fake Coronavirus Test Kits at LAX
  
• "Squad" Member Alopecia Pressley Calls for Freeing Prisoners and ICE Detainees for Our Health, of Course!
  
• Sanctuary Montgomery County: Police Interrupt Illegal Alien Rape in Progress

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Media is willingly pimping Chi-Com virus propaganda, even the National Laughingstock rips Biden for lying, was a Chi-Com reporter at the President's presser infected and intentionally sent there to try and make him sick? Another essay on how the media covered up Obama's Swine flu foul up that killed 17,000 and sickened hundreds of thousands more, Tavis Smiley ordered to pay up for sex abuse, and as Fox fades, Newsmax rises.

• Communist Chinese Propagandists Now Claim US Military Made Wuhan Virus
  
• Media Falling for Chinese Propaganda About How They Handled Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic (falling for = pimping - jjs)
  
• Biden Ad Attacking Trump on Chinese Coronavirus Gets "Four Pinocchios" From WaPo
  
• Germ Warfare from a China Press Pool Denizen?
  
• A Tale Of Two Pandemics: Media Downplayed Swine Flu Outbreak Under Obama
  
• Liberal Ex-PBS Host Tavis Smiley Ordered to Pay $1.486 Million for Violating Morals Clause
  
• Newsmax TV: A Rising Alternative to Fox News

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  Champaign dreams... of disarming you because Too Wong Flu, NJ backs down on weapons charge against security guard legally carrying, Biden taps a Beto acolyte who wants us disarmed and no need for explanations, but they do make great gifts.

• Champaign, IL Mayor Adds Ban of Firearms and Ammunition to Chinese Coronavirus Emergency Executive Order (proving it's all hyped hysteria for political gain - jjs)
  
• New Jersey Drops Illegal Weapon Charges Against Security Guard With Legal Weapon, Ammo
  
• Biden Taps Campaign Manager Who Advocated for AR-15 Confiscation
  
• Why I Bought AR-15s for My Sons

  ABORTION
  Judicial review "goes out the window whenever conservatives start influencing the judiciary."
  

• What Happened to Liberal Respect for Judicial Review?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Of all the unexpected things, regime change in Iran due to Too Wong Flu, two essays on the way forward after Israel's election stalemate and Joe Biden is no friend of the Jewish state.

• Coronavirus Debacle Fuels Iranians' Determination For Regime Change
  
• Iran on the Brink, as Killer Pathogen Ravages the Country
  
• Israel's President Calls on Benjamin Netanyahu's Rival, Benny Gantz, to Form a Government
  
• The Solution to Israel's Electoral Impasse
  
• Joe Biden: Israel's Fake "Friend"

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
  Remember when terror-linked CAIR was up in arms about travel bans? And this imam is a total fraud that politicians seem to always fall for.

• CAIR-DFW's Immigration Double Standards
  
• Interfaith Dialogue "Icon" Omar Suleiman: Sharia Supremacist, Islamic Jew-Hater

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  Daniel Greenfield reminds us about what the CDC's priorities once were not so long ago, a call to resist yet another permanent bureaucracy, Gavin Newsom admits that, yeah, maybe he shouldn't have allowed al those homeless encampments, Maryland Dems cure for Chi-Com Lung AIDS is more taxes and school fraud, union members want their dues back in wake of Janus, the government pension time bomb, and people always complain about foster care but do nothing about it.

• Greenfield: The CDC was Fighting Racism and Obesity Instead of Stopping Epidemics
  
• Chinese Coronovirus Task Force Shows Why America Doesn't Need a Permanent "Pandemic Office"
  
• Gavin Newsom Just Admitted He Could Have Removed California's Diseased-Filled Homeless Camps All Along
  
• Maryland Democrats Advance Tax Hikes and Expensive Education Plan Despite Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic (no observers allowed in the state legislature; how convenient - jjs)
  
• After Supreme Court Bans Mandatory Union Fees, Workers Ask for Refunds
  
• Government Pensions Are Dividing Americans and Damaging the Economy
  
• The Foster Care System is a Disaster: That's Why You Should Join It

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  "It's time for a conscious uncoupling from China before this miscreant mess of a rogue state destroys the economy and kills us all." Also, making the case for smaller businesses and more of them.

• The Virus Is Speaking Chinese
  
• The Chinese Coronavirus: A Wake-Up Call for America
  
• The Populist Case for Favoring Small and Medium Enterprises

  HEALTHCARE
  Remember this scheme to intrude in your home disguised by Obamacare? Biden is dusting it off.

• Biden Promises to Double Federal Funding to Send "Child Development Specialists" into American Homes

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  Some tips to teach your kids with school out for the duration, Blacks and Asians can come together in the anti-quota fight, and the 1619 Project is all about "teaching young people they have no country, that there is neither G-d nor justice, but only their own anger to right wrongs leads not to civilized self-rule but to fanaticism and self-destruction."

• 6-Step Quick-Start Guide to Substituting for Your Kid's School While It's Closed
  
• An Unlikely Alliance of Blacks and Asians
  
• The Real Goals of "The 1619 Project"

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  Empty shelves and no way to get around to congregate? That's just a small taste of America if we ever have the Green New Deal.

• How the Wuhan Virus is Accomplishing the Green New Deal's Goals (more like a small, frightening foreshadowing - jjs)

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  On Hillary and Fauxca-Has-Been bitching about sexism as a microcosm of the feminist movement's failure.

• I Am Woman, Hear Me Whine

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Three good essays on political and economic philosophy in the time of Chinese Oriental Plague, in praise of the Harriet Tubman movie, George Carlin with an absolute blast from the past regarding the Chi-Com flu; he channels Jefferson's line about liberty and security. Also more reflections on pandemics and Trump's beautiful tweet of support to the people of Italy.

• The Moral Superiority of Capitalism
  
• Why Are Fancy Groceries Madhouses, But Regular Chains Humming Along as Usual?
  
• About Those Self-Evident Truths...
  
• How Harriet Didn't Follow Hollywood's Faith Averse Formula
  
• George Carlin Told America How Not to Worry About Chinese Coronavirus 20 Years Ago
  
• Reflections on a Pandemic
  
• Heartwarming Video Trump Tweeted Amid the Chinese Coronavirus Will Have You In Tears

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