The Morning Report - 3/23/20

Good morning, kids. A new week and the nation remains in a bizarre state of limbo courtesy of the Chinese communists who inflicted, unwittingly or otherwise, a viral contagion upon us and the world. As a New York City resident, I've always wished I didn't have to endure the incessant din of street noise, traffic and sirens that although one grows accustomed to, nevertheless finds irritating. I guess now I'm getting my wish, only in Monkey's Paw fashion. To put it mildly, the silence is extremely unsettling. And while I'm free to leave my apartment to relieve cabin fever, there's nowhere to go to. Streets are deserted, traffic is virtually nonexistent and the people you encounter seem to be walking around in a daze. I smile and nod, or say hello, even sing or whistle a few bars of an upbeat tune (which is something I normally do anyway). Maybe it helps, if not the passersby then at least me in that moment. Forget the medical aspects of this Chinese coronavirus. The long-term effects on our collective psyche are going to be something we'll be reckoning with well into the future.

Anyway, I've really not got much more to say on this that I have not expressed over the past week or so since this plague of fear of the unknown, exacerbated and in my view instigated by the Democrat-Media Complex fell on us like a pall. Whatever natural consequences to our health and well-being we have to deal with (and for me, I am still highly skeptical of the real health risks compared with flu and other similar viral outbreaks of the recent and distant past) what the latter have done, and continue to do to exploit this crisis for their own political gain is beyond criminal; it's pure evil.

Let's unpack the links, because if I add anything more to my declamation, Ace will no doubt fire my ass just before I get a visit from the FBI.

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS
The President is activating the National Guard in three Chinese plague hotspots and has announced that he will be making a decision on any further federal action in 15 days. Many states are in a lockdown (New York as of last night) and hopefully two weeks will be a point where it can gradually be lifted, and limited to only those that are at risk or with symptoms such as the elderly or those with chronic/compromised respiratory systems. Meanwhile, Anthony Fauci is full on praising Trump's initial travel ban as perhaps the factor that will spare us from a worst-case scenario now devastating Italy and most of Europe.

Before moving away from the good doctor, it should be noted that his comments over the past few weeks that have fueled the media's feeding frenzy are in sharp contrast over his words and deeds 10 years ago during the H1N1 outbreak. He downplayed that and along with Obama's dithering incompetence and a media that was eager to cover it up, the result was 60 million infected, over 300,000 hospitalized and 17,000 dead. Funny how there were no panic headlines, no quarantines and no stock market crash back then, but now with a death toll of perhaps 300 or so, America is being put into a forced coma while its guts are ripped out.

Also, several links on how this situation is bringing out the best and sadly the worst in us, a comprehensive timeline of the outbreak, the FDA just approved a test for the plague that can give results in 45 minutes while Trump gives several corporate giants the go-ahead to crank out ventilators, 3-M promising 35 million masks a month, Rand Paul tests positive for Wu-Flu, Bob McManus at the NY Post praises Andrew Cuomo, some predictions political and otherwise about the American landscape post-plague and in praise of the President's leadership in this time of crisis.

• President Activates National Guard in CA, NY, and WA to Fight Chinese Coronavirus
  
• President Says US Will Make Decision on Further Chinese Coronavirus Action After 15 Days
  
• Dr. Fauci: Trump's Travel Bans May Prevent US From Becoming Another Italy
  
• Reducing Chinese COVID-19 Fever
  
• The United States Needs Better Data Immediately Before We Make Stupid Decisions About Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Americans Across Country Embrace Patriotism During Chinese Coronavirus: "Put the Flag Up"
  
• Why Chinese COVID-19 is a Product of the Left
  
• FDA Approves Coronavirus Test That Can Provide Results in 45 Minutes
  
• Moving at Trump Speed
  
• Trump Gives Ford, General Motors, Tesla "The Go Ahead" to Mass Produce Chinese Coronavirus Ventilators
  
• Comprehensive Timeline of Novel Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Chinese Coronavirus: Why Two Weeks Matters
  
• What Did Dr. Fauci Have to Say in 2009 About the Deadly H1N1 Pandemic?
  
• Rand Paul Tests Positive for Chinese Coronavirus; First Known Senator to Test Positive
  
• Cuomo Blasts New Yorkers Not Taking Chinese COVID-19 Seriously: "It's Insensitive, It's Arrogant"
  
• Andrew Cuomo is Truly Rising to the Challenge of Chinese Coronavirus Crisis
  
• California's Stay-at-Home Order Raises Constitutional Questions
  
• Americans Rejecting Hysterical Criticism of President Trump
  
• To Contain Chinese Coronavirus, Trump Must Halt Outgoing Flights from JFK, LaGuardia and Newark
  
• Chinese Coronavirus: 3M to Produce 35,000,000 Respirator Masks a Month in US
  
• When a Global Pandemic Brings Out the Best in the American People
  
• Coronavirus Unmasks America
  
• Predictions: What Will America Look Like After the Wuhan Coronavirus?
  
• How the Chinese Coronavirus Changed President Trump and America

  ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE LUNG MARCH
  The big news here is Malig-Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats late yesterday have blocked the Senate's emergency plague package and will now destroy over 315 million lives because we defied them in 2016 by voting for Trump. If they think tanking the economy is going to win them the White House and Congress in November, they are sorely mistaken. Elsewhere, I hope Steve Mnuchin is joking, because 10-12 weeks of a comatose economy is something that we will never recover from, no matter how much money he plans to print. In any case, as you'd imagine, the aid package is packed with pork, the airline bailout is only going to bail out Warren Buffet, one of the Dems' biggest donors, not that I'm shedding a tear because they have proven themselves to be a propaganda tool of the Chi-Coms, but the NBA is set to lose $1 billion; personally I hope they get wiped out, if people aren't hording the TP, they're clogging the loo with pieces of t-shirt, and Victor Davis Hanson with an interesting piece on this crisis revealing exactly who is replaceable in our society.

• Malig-Nancy Pelosi Nixes Bipartisan Talks on Chinese Coronavirus Package
  
• Giddy Democrats Planning to Exploit the Economic Crisis to Hurt Trump
  
• US Chinese Coronavirus Lockdown Could Last 10-12 Weeks, Treasury Sec Mnuchin Says (that is wholly unacceptable - jjs)
  
• The Key Bad Assumption in the Bipartisan Panic Pander Bill
  
• Stop the Coronabailout From Raining Your Money on Corporate Lobbyists Instead of Struggling Americans
  
• Greenfield: A $50 Billion Airline Bailout for Warren Buffett
  
• Can They Nurse the Economy Back to Health, Too?
  
• Cancellation of NBA Season Could Cost League over $1 Billion (look on the bright side in terms of elevating our culture - jjs)
  
• Shredded T-Shirts Used as Toilet Paper Are Backing Up Sewer Systems
  
• V.D. Hanson: The Virus is Not Invisible, But It's Exposing Who's Irreplaceable

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
  Democrat front-runner Joe Biden has all but disappeared since eight days ago, Mollie Hemingway calls for Richard Burr's rhetorical head, dissecting the fraud that was the Elizabeth Fauxcahontas campaign, Little Big Gulp a total fraud, and Malig-Nancy Pelosi is pulling Gavin Newsom's strings, possibly grooming him for 2024. I guess botox, gin and a lust for power is the new Geritol. Look it up.

• Joe Biden Seen Publicly for 6 Minutes in Last 8 Days
  
• Hemingway: Insider Trading Scandal is Just Latest Reason Burr Should Be Removed as Intel Chair
  
• Infamous Post-Script to Elizabeth Fauxca-Has-Been Campaign: Pro-Warren Super PAC Funded by Silicon Valley Mega-Donor
  
• Little Big Gulp Bloomberg Lied About Everything
  
• Malig-Nancy Pelosi Calls the Shots In California

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION, SHAMPEACHMENT
  Long ago and far away... Yet how these people were used as political pawns and ruined by Rosenpenis and Mueller was a disgrace.

• Government Disgrace in Marquee Russian "Election Interference" Case

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  Carpetbagger's gotta carpetbag, and yet another Day-Ending-in-Y Dept. entry, this time with the midget malefactor.

• Georgia Dem Sets Up Chinese Coronavirus Townhall... Using Her Tennessee Phone Number
  
• Little Big Gulp Bloomberg Exploits Campaign Finance Loophole to Funnel $18 Million to DNC

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  Yes, with unemployment set to skyrocket, let's piss on suffering Americans and import people to take their jobs.

• H-1B Lobby Group: House Coronavirus Bill Extends Work Permits for Indian, Chinese Visa Workers
  
• The Republicans Pushing a Mass Immigration Scheme Favoring China

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Several essays on the media's complete criminal malfeasance in creating a panic for political cover for the Dems, a look at China's very large role in it, even with the media-created panic Trump's approval continues to rise so now the Left wants to censor his plague pressers, the Dems as the party of death is a natural fit with the Chi-Coms, thank goodness for our video screens (or not), a look at the Chi-Com booting of US journos, WaPo lies yet again, part two of a look at Newsmax on the rise as a Fox alternative, and a warning about our high tech as the future instrument of our enslavement.

• Should Statistical Analysis Allegedly Understating Chinese Coronavirus Risk Have Been Taken Down by Medium?
  
• Media and Corporate Elites Act as PR Machine for Chinese Communist Party
  
• How Propaganda Gets Transmitted from China to Leftist Influencers
  
• Trump's Rising Poll Numbers Have the Media Demanding That they Should be Able to Censor Him
  
• In This Strange New World, Our Screens Are Proving Our Salvation (except for news media propaganda - jjs)
  
• What Beijing's Latest Journalist Expulsions Mean for the US-China Media War
  
• Fake News: National Laughingstock WaPo Claims Trump Ignored Early Intel Briefings on Possible Pandemic
  
• Chinese Coronavirus and the Party of Death
  
• Newsmax II: "Spicer & Co."
  
• Greenfield: The Media is a Public Health Crisis
  
• Is Global Tyranny Inevitable?

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  As stated.

• Gun-Rights Group Files Suit Challenging Chinese Coronavirus Shutdown

  ABORTION
  Planned Parenthood bailout could be a reason why Dems are stalling the aid bill, and Alicia Keys' about to be forced to disown and disavow her mother.

• Are Dems Refusing to Support $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill Unless It Includes a Bailout for Planned Parenthood?
  
• Alicia Keys' Mother Considered Aborting Her: "I'm So Grateful to Her for Choosing Me"

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Mostly Too Wong Flu, where Europe and Italy are in crisis, a look at why the latter is happening, surprise surprise that the head of the WHO is a Chi-Com installed flunky, the Chi-Coms stopped testing which is why there are no cases out of that evil empire, Iran would rather die than switch (to accepting US help), funny how we don't hear about the plague in Russia, and finally Nazi collaborator and convicted felon George Soros is a one-man plague infecting the world.

• Europe in Crisis: Nations Across the Continent Grapple with Growing Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic
  
• Chinese Coronavirus: Italy Total Death Toll Rises 13.5 Percent in 24 Hours, Exceeds 5,000
  
• Why is Italy In So Much Trouble? It's More Than ICU Beds
  
• Italy, Numbers, and Confusion: Why Is Italy the Hotbed of Chinese COVID-19
  
• Top WHO Official Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Who Won Election With China's Help Now Running Interference for China on Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Report: China Stopped Testing for Chinese COVID-19 - That's Why There Are Zero New Cases
  
• Iran Leader Cites Chinese Conspiracy Theory While Rejecting Help From US To Stop Chinese Coronavirus
  
• The Very Low Number of Russia's Reported Chinese COVID-19 Cases Raises Questions of a Cover-Up
  
• Nazi Collaborator and Convicted Felon George Soros' Anti-Israel Funding

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  America's key lab for fighting infectious disease, USAMRID, has become a Pentagon backwater. If we really expect government bureaucracies, especially since the coming of Obama, to actually do the jobs they are tasked for, I've got a bridge over the East River to sell you, cheap.

• A Biosecurity Failure

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
  Minnesota Muslim doctor sez "first, do all harm and keeeeel you!," Raymond Ibrahim asks a question, and Robert Spencer reprises with a damning accusation against former UK PM Gordon Brown.

• Spencer: Minnesota - Muslim Migrant Physician Pledges Allegiance to ISIS
  
• Ibrahim: Are Muslims Immune to Chinese Coronavirus?
  
• Spencer: Former UK PM Gordon Brown Accused of Letting Muslim Rape Gangs Roam Free in Exchange for Saudi Money

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  Two essays, including Roger Kimball, on the government's temptation to erase civil liberties in time of crises real or otherwise, how state budgets will be impacted by Wu Flu, suddenly the Left's hard-on for mass transit doesn't look so good and Trump's regulatory reform a boon for Black Americans.

• DoJ Is Asking for the Authority to Detain You Indefinitely Without Trial
  
• Kimball: Chinese COVID-19, the Elephant, and the House Cat
  
• The Crisis' Impact on Budgets
  
• Mass Transit, the Pandemic Petri Dish the Left Loves
  
• Regulatory Reform Benefits Black America

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  Thank you Democrats, nightmare scenario for PA, and capitalism unleashed is the cure.

• US Futures Dive as Democrats Block Senate Funding Bill
  
• What Would Happen If Joe or Bernie Could Ban Fracking in Pennsylvania?
  
• Capitalism: A Great Weapon Against the Chinese Coronavirus

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  Suddenly, coyote attacks are a thing... in Chicago?

• Should a Coyote Be Indicted?

  HEALTHCARE
  A look at anxiety meds. Considering the current state of affairs...

• Beware the Benzos

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  Even hard left NYC teachers have had it with DeBolshevik, Tu-Ca makes an excellent point, and "South Dakota is trying to ensure true intellectual diversity at its universities and colleges. Meanwhile, the guild strikes back."

• Teachers Blame De Bolshevik, Schools Chancellor for Spread of Chinese Coronavirus: "The Blood Is on Their Hands"
  
• Tu-Ca: "There is Not Enough Federal Bailout Money in the Treasury to Save Every Pointless University in a Bad Recession"
  
• It's Time to Afflict the Comfortable in Higher Ed

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  They really are the party of death.

• Former Hillary Clinton Subordinate Cites Some Effects of Coronavirus That "Are Good for the Planet"

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  Once again, our intrepid science reporter is sort of on the scene.

• Friday at the Non-Existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Christian Toto on the heroes and villains in this time of crisis, Candace Owens gets castigated for her remarks, new YouTube show gets thumbs up, "Progressive theorists, statesmen, and theologians embraced a notion that material and spiritual fulfillment can be found in and through the good graces of the state. It represented, in theory and practice, a stunning transformation of American politics, morality, and constitutionalism," and finally, with 6 out of 10 of the wealthiest counties in America, is it any wonder DC is the happiest place in America? (pukes).

• Toto: Meet The Hollywood Heroes (And Villains) of the Chinese COVID-19 Nightmare
  
• Candace Owens Should Stop Being Flippant About Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Red Letter Media, Your New YouTube Addiction
  
• The Revolt Against the American Order
  
• Survey: Washington, D.C., is Happiest of 10 Largest Urban Areas in USA

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

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