The Morning Report - 3/19/20

Good morning, kids. Thursday and for me as each day passes, the more the pain and suffering from the societal, economic and governmental reaction to the "Shy Knees (SWIDT?) Boo-Boo Oopsie" eclipses the actual physical pain, suffering and death by the virus itself, the more I am convinced that this entire thing is a completely manufactured crisis. Whether or not the Chinese government intentionally unleashed what is tantamount to biological warfare on the US and the West, or conveniently benefitted by forces equally opposed to the President's wildly successful anti-globalist/pro-American trade policy who took advantage of the panic to torpedo the American and western economies is an issue that should be dealt with. The fact of the matter is that China and its willing stooges are the beneficiaries of this.

Again, I'm neither a doctor nor epidemiologist but looking at as many articles as I can from the experts with regards to the infection rate and morbidity rates weighed against all the factors in the particular hotspots, this disease is certainly more dangerous than the common cold or flu, BUT as with the latter mostly with the elderly and those who have compromised respiratory function. In other words, just like the common cold or flu. This isn't a medical blog and I think it gets into the weeds to engage in a discussion of the biology of this in this venue. That said, the latest news on potential vaccines and the halting of the spread/infections is important and should be discussed.

A number of the links near the top of the list I hope will be of comfort to those of you who have crammed every last space in your home with a Charmin 6-pack. Beyond any potential vaccines, which even at the earliest could take months before being ready, many in the medical and epidemiological field think that we have been wildly overreacting to this particular outbreak. Per James Barrett at Daily Wire:

In an analysis published Tuesday, Stanford's John P.A. Ioannidis - co-director of the university's Meta-Research Innovation Center and professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, and epidemiology and population health - suggests that the response to the coronavirus pandemic may be "a fiasco in the making" because we are making seismic decisions based on "utterly unreliable" data. The data we do have, Ioannidis explains, indicates that we are likely severely overreacting.

"The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco,"Ioannidis writes in an opinion piece published by STAT on Tuesday.

"Draconian countermeasures have been adopted in many countries. If the pandemic dissipates - either on its own or because of these measures - short-term extreme social distancing and lockdowns may be bearable," the statistician writes. "How long, though, should measures like these be continued if the pandemic churns across the globe unabated? How can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm?"...

Well I guess if they are able to shakedown the treasury, destroy a wildly popular president's chances at a sure re-election by destroying the economy and shred whatever is left of our Constitutionally-protected freedoms to make it easier for the Left to hijack the country either now or in the near future on some other flimsy pretext ("to save the planet!") then the policymakers would have been successful. But I digress. Or maybe not.

Circling back to the Chi-Coms, whether or not this was an intentional act, their actions and reactions to it and us make it plain as day that the regime in Beijing is the greatest threat to our peace and security. And not 30 years from now but right here and right now. Considering that their own economy was flat-lining even before President Trump's new trade and tariff deal kicked in, and that there was massive open civil unrest in Hong Kong and equal, yet better concealed, unrest in Xinjiang and other cities on the mainland along with outrage over Muslim Uighur concentration camps, the Wuhan Woo-Woo outbreak could not have come at a worse time for them. Or a better time, depending on how you look at it.

For America, this is one of those wake-up call moments, like Pearl Harbor or 9/11/01. With the former, we did what we had to do and came out the better for it. With the latter, we did... something, and wound up with Bro-Fo Omar/Nur elected to Congress. With all this talk of stimulus checks and pump-priming the markets, the one thing that must be done is, pardon the expression, fundamentally transforming our economy in a way that immediately repatriates our manufacturing and heavy industrial sector back to our shores while marginalizing if not outright killing off the bureaucratic regulatory beast that helped move it offshore in the first place. That situation is in doubt due to the fact that said bureaucracy is both entrenched and virtually 100% Democrat-Leftist, while the greedy corporatists who stabbed the American worker in the back to make a fast buck are the ones who tried and continue to try and destroy this President and we who voted for him.

But if ever we had a shot at this, we have it now, both because of the obvious in-your-face threat of an enemy who we made powerful that makes all the goods we consume including well over 90% of our pharmaceuticals, and because of the man we have in the Oval Office. If this is not a war nor the moral equivalent of a war (and I believe it is) at a minimum we are at a crossroads in the life of then nation and are facing an existential crisis. I hope and pray he and we make the right decisions.

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Report: Chinese Coronavirus Outbreak Could Have Been Reduced By 95% if China Acted Sooner
  
• Clinical Trial Raises Hopes That Malaria Drug Could Be Chinese Coronavirus Cure
  
• Report: China Official Claims Japanese Flu Drug "Clearly Effective" in Treating Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We're Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus
  
• The Latest on Chinese COVID-19 Suggests Most of Us Will Be Fine
  
• Italian Study: Most Who Died from Coronavirus Had Pre-Existing Condition
  
• Nobel Prize Winner Offers More Optimistic Take on Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic, Says "Humanity Will Survive" (chemistry prize, not peace - jjs)
  
• Chinese Coronavirus Is Not Chinese Germ Warfare... Not Exactly
  
• Flashback January 14th: WHO Tells Everyone Don't Worry Because China Says Chinese Coronavirus Isn't Contagious
  
• Mario Diaz Balart First Member of Congress Infected With Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Chi-Com Flunky Bloomberg Promises to Spend $40 Million to Fight Chinese Coronavirus in Other Countries
  
• US Air Force Makes Heroic Chinese Coronavirus Airlift Across the Atlantic
  
• Trump: "It's a War. I View It, in a Sense, as a Wartime President" (hopefully he knows it's not just a virus that's the enemy - jjs)
  
• Gavin Newsom "We Have the Ability to Do Martial Law... If We Feel the Necessity"
  
• Prager: Coronavirus... and a Dam That's Been Broken
  
• Codevilla: Fear Makes Power
  
• How Long Will Americans Tolerate Corona-Madness?
  
• Apocalypse No
  
• Lord: The Impeachment That Killed Americans

  ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE LUNG MARCH
  I don't even want to look at the markets anymore. In any case, the emergency relief bill passed the Senate and the President signed it, but as we all know it is loaded down with pork. Along with the Chi-Coms I have equal if not more venom for the Democrats who forced all kinds of wasteful garbage knowing full well the optics if Trump dug his heels in (and rightly so) while America burned. In any case, several links on how what we're doing with the economy and stimulus is worse than the actual disease itself as well as a Pew poll with an overwhelming number of respondents also thinking the "cure" worse than the real disease.

• Dow Loses All Gains From Trump Administration
  
• President Trump Signs Chinese Coronavirus Relief Bill with Over $100 Billion in Aid
• Don't Call Democrats' Pork "Stimulus"
  
• 15 Things Conservatives Must Demand in Return for Chinese Coronavirus Bailout Package
  
• Will The Costs of a Great Depression Outweigh the Risks of Chinese Coronavirus? (spoiler alert: hell yes - jjs)
  
• Pew Poll: Americans View Wuhan Virus as a Bigger Threat to the Economy Than to Their Health
  
• Coronavirus in NY: Restaurants Announce Mass Layoffs as Pandemic Panic Puts City in Chokehold
  
• Chinese Coronavirus: Ford, GM, Fiat Chrysler Shutting Down US Factories
  
• Trump Invokes Defense Protection Act as Chinese Coronavirus Ravages Economy
  
• Invoking Airline Bailout, Movie Theaters Submit Plea to Trump Administration
  
• IRS Gives Most Americans Extra 90 Days to Pay (you still have to file on time - jjs)

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
  Turning to politics, looks like Bernie might be near the end as he lashes out at Manu(re) Raju, and Walter Williams with the autopsy on Bernie's socialism, David Axelrod disconsolate over the President's handling of the crisis and what it means for November, Sessionzzz-Tuberville election delayed and Hillary Clinton's idea for write-in elections only is a Leftist wet dream that must be resisted at all costs.

• Sanders to "Assess His Campaign," Suspends Facebook Advertising
  
• Democrats' Goofball Primary Continues Amid Global Pandemic
  
• "I'm Dealing With a Fu**ing Global Crisis": Delusional Bernie Sanders Explodes at CNN Reporter Manu Raju
  
• Williams: Socialism's Past
  
• CNN's David Axelrod Warns Dems Trump's Strong Virus Response May Help Him Win Re-Election (plus the past four years as well - jjs)
  
• Good News for Sessionszzz as Chinese Coronavirus Delays Runoff with Tommy Tuberville - jjs)
  
• Hillary Calls for Congress to "Make Voting By Mail the Norm Going Forward" (NO-NO-NO - jjs)

  JOE BRIBEM, HUNTER BRIBEM UKRAINE, CHI-COM, OTHER SCANDALS
  Can you say "money laundering?"

• Hunter Biden Founded a Now-Defunct Record Production Company in 2018

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  From each according to their ability to... me, and you're fired! Also, another Day-Ending-in-Y Dept. entry.

• Rich Socialist Restaurateur Lays Off Hundreds Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
  
• CA Dem T.J. Cox Failed to Pay $175,000 in Taxes Despite Loaning Campaign More Than $250,000

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  Another sure sign that Americans are behind Trump, good news from the State Dept. for a change and the opposite from ICE, and finally that's an awful lot of Chinese aliens coming in across the Lio Glande.

• Americans Overwhelmingly Approve of Trump's Coronavirus Travel Ban
  
• State Department Suspends Refugee Resettlement to US in Chinese Coronavirus Crisis
  
• ICE Scaling Back Enforcement Operations Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
  
• 2,060 Chinese Nationals Apprehended At US-Mexico Border in Fiscal Year 2019

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Chi-Coms pull a typical Democrat talking point, Kellyanne Conway rips CBS hack for "kung flu" B.S., the SPLC should be sued out of existence (I think it is being taken to court), MSNBC hack incites more violence, how the press is stoking panic for profit and a rabbi warns about religious freedom in danger with Too Wong Flu hysteria.

• China Blames America for China Kicking Out American Newspaper Journalists
  
• Kellyanne Conway Presses CBS "Reporter" at Center of "Kung Flu" Controversy for Details; "Reporter" Refuses to Answer
  
• SPLC "Hate" Report Takes Aim at Donald Trump Ahead of 2020 Election
  
• Unhinged MSNBC Legal Analyst Claims Trump May Be Guilty of "Negligent Homicide" for Chinese Coronavirus Response
  
• Chinese Coronavirus Lessons: Nobody Trusts the Press
  
• The Progressive Chatty Cathy Dolls Don't Like America
  
• We Must Not Allow the Government to Use Fear of COVID-19 to Trample Our Religious Liberties

  ABORTION
  Planned Parenthood is an infection, and a Down Syndrome mom tells her story.

• Amid Outbreak Precautions, Pro-Lifers Say Planned Parenthood Staffer Deliberately Coughed at Them
  
• How My Pregnancy Exposed the Silent Genocide of Babies With Down Syndrome

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Two links echoing my sentiments up top, per the article on Singapore, "as it confronts COVID-19, the U.S. should revisit how it attracts and retains governmental talent," and the headline says it all.

• It's Time to Quarantine the Chinese Communist Party
  
• Chinese Coronavirus Is America's Chinese Wake Up Call
  
• A Lesson from Singapore
  
• Justin Trudeau: Canada's National Disaster

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  Along with most favored nation status, Michael Ledeen with a timely reminder of how Bill Clinton committed what amounts to treason, and another look at the F-35 fiasco.

• Ledeen: Arming China - The Bill Clinton Connection
  
• The F-35 Is Not Peace Through Strength, But Weakness Through Bureaucratic Misconception

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
  Daniel Greenfield rips Hillary for her love of pure Turkish agitprop.

• Greenfield: Hillary's Favorite Film is Turkish Gov't Agitprop for Bin Laden Pal

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  Fair, all things considered.

• HUD Suspending Foreclosures, Evictions for Renters, Homeowners Until End of April

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  Per the abstract, "like the New Deal, every additional billion dollars in stimulus and bailout spending will further delay the economic recovery we all want and need."

• Why Congress' Trillion-Dollar Chinese Coronavirus Bailouts Will Shackle the US Economy

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  Madness in Philly and other blue hell holes, Soros saves Kim Foxx, Baltimore mayor is just out of his mind, and Ghislaine Maxwell swipes Epstein's estate, enraging his victims.

• Whose Public Safety? During COVID-19, Some Cops Stop Arresting for Assault, Manslaughter, Theft and ...
  
• Nazi Collaborator and Economy-Killer Soros Helps Save Prosecutor Who Dropped Jussie Smollett Charges After Hate Crime Hoax
  
• Federal Prosecutor Nukes Soros-Backed Philly DA for Releasing Gangster Accused of Killing a Cop
  
• Baltimore Mayor Begs Criminals Not to Shoot Each Other... To Save Hospital Beds for Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Victims Furious as Ghislaine Maxwell Stakes Legal Claim to Epstein's $636 Million Estate

  HEALTHCARE
  Well, you can only watch so many movies at home...

• Chinese Coronavirus Baby Boom? Stores Now Experiencing Condom Shortages; Experts Predict Record Births In Late 2020

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  Lack of meals? For kids staying at home? Break up the friggin' AFT and NEA to bits.

• Lack of Internet, Technology, Meals: Teachers Detail Pitfalls of Remote Teaching During Chinese Coronavirus Crisis (meals?! - jjs)

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  A two-fer from our intrepid science reporter who ison the scene yet again, virtually and also reporting on the latest NASA boondoggle.

• Wednesday at the Non-Existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference
  
• More Overruns in NASA's SLS Program, This Time with the Mobile Launchers

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  All things considered, I can't get down on the college kids and go grab your pole.

• Twerking Spring Breakers Party on South Florida Beaches Despite Social Distancing Orders
  
• This is the Perfect Time to Get Outside and Go Fishing

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