The Morning Report - 3/26/20

Good morning, kids. Thursday and the good news is the $2 trillion emergency King Kong Ching Chong Relief-a-Palooza passed in the Senate late last night. A last minute foul up in the language on unemployment insurance that could have led Bernie Sanders to block passage evidently was ironed out and the bill sailed through by a near unanimous vote; four GOP senators were absent due to quarantine. The bad news is, at 880 pages we don't know what concessions to the Democrats are in it; the mistake that the GOP was panicked about was a wording error that would have made unemployment insurance permanent, and so Bernie got all excited about that. I assume that got nixed...

UPDATE: Commenter Tami states "I don't think this is correct, JJ. The Sasse amdt. was to fix that language. It needed 60 votes to pass. Vote was 48-48. It failed so the language in the bill remained." To which I say, "feh."

...but the President commented that the mere $25 million for Malig-Nancy Pelosi to give to the Kennedy Center was just "a cheap sound-bite" in the grand scheme of things. But over time, it adds up to trillions and Chinese plague or not, the debt clock goes tick-tock-tick-tock. In any case it's over to her side of the Capitol Dome to review, approve and pass on to the Oval Office for signature. That is if the Donkey Chompers AOC contingent don't try to pull a fast one on Malig-Nancy and gum up the works. More on the economics of this in a moment.

As to what's happening in the real world with this, contrary to the Democrat-Media Complex's Chinese Central Committee-fueled agitprop, a Johns Hopkins study finds America more prepared than any other nation to deal with this China-inflicted plague. At least in terms of the raw death toll figures. Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House Chinese Coronavirus Task Force said that our response is indeed bending the curve down, but the fact remains that we still do not have enough accurate data to really get a true picture of this disease in order to know what measures to take. With the population locked down, and an intentional drumbeat of gloom and doom from the media, the cure is definitely looking to be more destructive than the disease itself.

On top of all of that, we have the twin dim-bulbs of Democrat dumb-assery Andrew Cuomo and Warren Wilhelm Klink De Blasio, whose ineptitude and political maneuvering have made New York State and City the nation's hotspot for this pestilence. I do not think it's a stretch to say that their blind ideological stance on open borders and lax policing may very well have led to the infection itself and for sure its spread. I give you the governor's own tripe itself - "We welcome people" - as evidence that only bolsters my assertion. Then, sensing that what's left of Biden's brain is visibly seeping out of his ears and that the DNC might call on him this summer in Milwaukee, he attacked the President about the lack of ventilators. Has this fool not been paying attention the past five years? Trump immediately retaliated with the truth that Cuomo's own malfeasance in not being prepared and indeed focusing on all manner of social justice insanity instead of doing his duty in making the state prepared. Cuomo replied "hummina, hummina, hummina, racist!"

Meanwhile, the lanky hunk of self-important idiocy De Bolshevik only a few weeks ago said we should ignore the Oriental plague and get on with our lives as normal, and now he's whistling a very different tune, and claiming that at least half of all New Yorkers may get the Asian clap. Yet the media continues pimping that Trump called all this a hoax, along with reports that allegedly the morgues and hospitals are running out of room. All things considered, color me skeptical. In any case, what are the actual causes of death? How old are the victims? What underlying health conditions did they already have? As to overflowing hospitals and ERs, could it be people who might only have a bad cold or flu been driven into a panic by the constant Chicken Little media and gone to the ER when they otherwise might not have?

It's not just Cuomo and DeBolshevik. The manifest irresponsibility of the media in driving this narrative that the disease is some sort of fatal Black Death has made everyone cautious in the extreme. So the self-quarantining and shuttering of all public commercial activity has driven the nation to the brink of economic collapse, and in my view unnecessarily. The death toll and morbidity of this virus is still way below that of previous outbreaks and that of common seasonal flu as well. While it is inarguable that the quarantine will reduce the rate of transmission, what should have been done from the outset and certainly right now is to isolate those people who are most at risk from contracting the disease: the elderly, infirm and those with chronic respiratory, autoimmune or coronary conditions. The much-ballyhooed cases of young people getting infected and perhaps dying are tragic, but they are anecdotal. What no one in the media is reporting, since it will destroy the panic meme they continue to spew, is the number of individuals infected who have gotten over it or those who remain asymptomatic.

There is a thing known as "herd immunity," and forgive me if I'm botching the explanation, which means that over time, the population builds up a resistance to a pathogen to the point where it ultimately burns out. Quarantining everyone has the effect of blocking that from happening. But if we allow the most low risk groups in the population to go about their normal activities, we can theoretically be rid of this plague in a shorter time frame. It also means that life can get back to normal and we don't have to ruin our economy in the bargain.

The longer this goes on, the more this damages society as a whole. We cannot continue living in a state of siege. The numbers just do not justify what we are doing to ourselves, or more accurately what we are allowing some very nefarious and evil forces with the media on their side to do to us. No, Chinese Coronavirus is not a hoax. It's as serious as a heart attack, or perhaps pneumonia. But what we're doing amounts to amputating our arm to cure an infection on our big toe.

Madness.

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Johns Hopkins Study: USA More Prepared for Pandemic Than Any Other Country
  
• Dr. Birx Suggests US Response Is Reducing the Chinese Coronavirus Rate
  
• Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns
  
• Andrew Cuomo: NY Has 15 Times Coronavirus Cases of CA Because "We Welcome People" (without checking for criminals and plague carriers - jjs)
  
• Cuomo Attempts to Defend Malfeasance: Nobody in the World Bought Ventilators for Spanish Flu-Size Pandemic
  
• Report: New York City Morgues Near Capacity
  
• Flashback: On March 3rd De Bolshevik Asks New Yorkers to Ignore Chinese Coronavirus, Get On With Their Lives
  
• De Bolshevik: "It's a Fair Bet to Say That Half of All NYers and Maybe More" Will Get Chi-Com Lung Scrapie
  
• New York Health Commissioner Tells People Not To Follow White House Chinese Coronavirus Guidance
  
• New Test Announced Could Determine if People Were Already Infected With Chinese Coronavirus and Are Now Immune
  
• Wuhan Virus Watch: New Orleans May Be "Hot Spot" Because of Mardi Gras
  
• Businesses Can Remain Open in Texas as Part of Chinese Coronavirus Stay-at-Home Order, But Some Folks Are None Too Pleased
  
• South Dakota Governor Urges State to "Press Pause" Rather Than Impose Quarantine
  
• VA Hospitals Prepare to Treat Chinese Coronavirus Patients
  
• Epidemiologist: My Situation Highlights the Risk of Widespread Lockdowns
  
• Related: Chinese COVID-19 Shutdown: Unfocused Approach Is Bad Medicine
  
• How Medical "Chickenpox Parties" Could Turn the Tide of the Wuhan Virus
  
• Innovation Now: Radical New Approaches from Public and Private Sectors Needed to Fight Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Today Chinese COVID-19 Made My Doctor and I Criminals

  ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE LUNG MARCH
  As stated, the printing presses are being fired up and the $2 trillion stimulus, along with another $4 trillion in other Treasury chazarei promised by Secretary Mnuchin, is on the way to the House and then to the President's desk by perhaps tomorrow. The actions of Alexandria Donkey-Chompers notwithstanding. Malig-Nancy Pelosi at least for the time being has been defeated, so she's now belching up that this bill is not enough and that she will continue to try and pass the power-grab legislation that she was forced to strip out of the bill, in order to placate Toothy McUdders and her merry band. Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow calls it the largest assistance program in US history, but it's not something I'm cheering about. Matt Gaetz is championing a bill that prevents Chinese state-owned business from getting their hands on the gelt; frankly we should seize their assets and kick their infected asses back across the Pacific. Meanwhile, American Airlines is promising a massive pay raise to employees, LA's mayor Garcetti is a cheap thug, the last thing we should ever do is nationalize industries and a final essay echoing my thoughts on the cure being far worse than the disease.

• Senate Unanimously Passes $2 Trillion Chinese Coronavirus Bill with Cash Giveaway
  
• Malig-Nancy Pelosi: House Will Have "At Least 24 Hours" to Review Senate Chinese Coronavirus Bill
  
• President Trump: $25 Million for Kennedy Center a "Lousy Soundbite"
  
• Senate Passes Chinese Coronavirus Bill, Proving Malig-Nancy Pelosi Gambled With Americans' Lives and Lost
  
• Donkey Chompers AOC Warns She May Singlehandedly Delay Chinese Coronavirus Relief, Force In-Person Vote
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Congress' Latest Chinese Coronavirus Spending Bill
  
• Some of Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Pork Ends Up in Final Chinese Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
  
• If Money From the Feds is Free, Why Not Give Everyone $100,000?
  
• $6 Trillion: Kudlow Says Chinese Coronavirus Bill Will Be "Largest ...Assistance Program in History of United States" (oh joy oh bliss - jjs)
  
• "No CHINA Act" Would Prevent Relief Funds From Going to China-Owned Businesses
  
• American Airlines Set to Give Massive Pay Hikes as Taxpayer Bailout Advances (if it advances - jjs)
  
• LA Mayor Garcetti Threatens Water and Power Shut-Offs for Nonessential Businesses That Refuse to Close
  
• A Mistaken Idea: The Federal Government Should Not Take Over Our Supply Chain
  
• Chinese COVID-19 Probably Won't Destroy Society, But the Government's Reaction Might

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
  On the political front, two essays on what this episode means for Trump and his presidency, Hans von Spakovsky sounds the alarm on letting the Feds take over the elections, Dems have been politicizing this virus weeks ago, Daniel Greenfield on Steve "Porn Daddy" Spielberg and other Lefty celebs funding anti-Trump virus agitprop, the Oriental Lung AIDS has exposed some of our worst political actors, both DNC and RNC say their conventions are a go for this summer, Cali candidate gets the stink eye from Malig-Nancy, several links on the gibbering disaster that is Joe Biden but that's not enough to deter LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman from wasting money on him, a new poll shows North Carolinians want Richard Burr to resign for insider trading, and Lloyd Billigsley's "Octo-Pelosi" further examines the dragon lady's stranglehold on power, her pedigree and grooming Gavin Gruesome for a prexy run in 2024.

• Chinese Coronavirus Is the Crisis that will Define Donald Trump's Legacy (the stuff of second terms - jjs)
  
• The Coronavirus and the November Election
  
• von Spakovsky: Chinese Cornonavirus Is No Reason for the Feds to Take Over the Election Process (no, but it's a damn good pretext - jjs)
  
• Democrats Began Politicizing Trump's Chinese Coronavirus Response Well Before Senate Gridlock
  
• Greenfield: Spielberg Funded a PAC, Now It's Exploiting the Chinese Coronavirus to Divide Americans
  
• Chinese Coronavirus Unmasks the Worst People in the World
  
• Octo-Pelosi
  
• Still On! RNC, DNC Insist Party Conventions Will Happen Despite Chinese Coronavirus Shutdown
  
• CA Dem Candidate Deletes Tweet Criticizing Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Chinese Coronavirus Bill
  
• Joe Biden's Livestreams Have Been a Disaster
  
• Biden: "I Think We've Had Enough Debates"
  
• Biden Claims to Be Ivy League Professor: "I've Spent a Lot of Time on Campus" (trolling for co-eds - jjs)
  
• Biden: The Mirror on the Democrats' Wall
  
• LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Is Bankrolling Biden's Super PAC
  
• North Carolina Poll: Majority of Voters Say Burr Should Resign for Chinese Coronavirus Stock Selloff

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Trump is dead right. The media wants America to be frightened into national ruin, so much so that they know keeping Trump off the air is their first priority. Instead, Andrew Cuomo is being thrown up as a de facto "president." Meanwhile Coonman Lawnjockey suppressing religious freedom, and the Economist the latest rag to hawk Chi-Com propaganda.

• President Trump Claims Media is Trying to Keep Country Closed "As Long As Possible"
  
• President Trump's Daily Briefings Are Getting Huge Ratings... And Leftists Hate Them
  
• Media Romantically Elects a New "President" and Blackout President Trump
  
• In the Same Poll Where Trump Triumphs on Chinese COVID-19 Response, the Media Come In Dead Last
  
• Yes, Virginia's Governor Jolson McKlanRobes Has Made It a Crime for More Than 10 People to Attend a Church Service
  
• Economist Runs Chinese Coronavirus Propaganda Disguised as News

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  Mixed bag here as LA gun shops will remain open after all, but 12 states could shut them down.

• Los Angeles Gun Shops to Stay Open After County Lawyer Disputes Decision
  
• Chinese Coronavirus Shutdowns Could Close Gun Stores in 12 States

  ABORTION
  Andrew Cuomo disgusts me, but you knew that.

• Governor Cuomo Says Dramatic Measures Are Worth It to Save "Just One Life," So Why Did He Legalize Late-Term Abortion?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Several links on China before, during and after this plague has subsided. They are far and away a mortal threat to the peace and security of the world. Also, Brazil's Bolsonaro has had enough of this, Robert Levinson who had been held captive in Iran for 13 years has reportedly died, Iranians reject Doctors Without Borders, and a taste of "Jewish Lightning," or is it karma, hits a Gaza preacher right in his falafel hole.

• Wake Up America - China is the Pandemic
  
• Multi-Trillion-Dollar Civilian Lawsuit Against China for Chinese Coronavirus Fallout Being Monitored by White House
  
• China is Lashing Out Because Wuhan Flu Has Unmasked It to the World
  
• What the Political Scene in China Says About the Chinese Coronavirus
  
• "Get Back to Normal": Brazil's Bolsonaro Urges End to Chinese Coronavirus "Hysteria"
  
• Iran Imprisoning Coronavirus Whistleblowers, State Department Says
  
• Iran Expels "Doctors Without Borders" Team Despite 1,800 Deaths from Chi-Com Lung Gleet
  
• Retired FBI Agent Missing In Iran For 13 Years Has Reportedly Died, Reveals Family
  
• Comedy Gold! Gaza Preacher Praises Allah for Infecting Israelis, Americans... One Day Before First Cases Reported in Gaza

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  China is a pestilence, a call for Trump to smash Boko Haram and the first Space Force mission takes to the sky.

• State-Backed Chinese Hackers Launched Massive Campaign Against US in Early 2020, Report Says
  
• Trump's Nigerian Moment: Defeating Boko Haram, Religious Persecution and Corruption
  
• First Space Force Mission is a Go

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
  Look on the bright side of the plague; flying has never been easier...

• TSA Reports All Time Low Number of Passengers Screened in a Single Day

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  Two straight days of big gains at the Dow for first time since February, three-month T-bills yield negative yield (more to it than that), Mike Rogers says US must win 5-G dominance, debunking the anti-capitalist agitprop of the Donkey Chompers set and per the abstract, "America's small businesses, our machinists, die-casters, plastic injection molders, electronics parts suppliers, and others are eager to get to work providing the medical equipment the nation needs but the companies that hold the patents and process patents for this equipment need to open up and ask for bids." Agreed.

• Dow Jumps 495 Points in First Back-to-Back Gains Since February
  
• Three-Month US Treasury Bond Yields Turn Negative
  
• Ventilator Blues
  
• Former Rep Mike Rogers Hopes Chinese Coronavirus Fallout Convinces US To Distrust Chinese Tech, Built Up Its Own 5G
  
• Curbing China's Dominance of Medical Supplies
  
• No, Democrats, Corporations Couldn't Have Been Better Prepared for the Pandemic

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  I blame the school system and media for the first loser, De Bolshevik is out of his fucking mind and have we learned nothing since 9/11?

• Man Accused of Licking Walmart Deodorants Charged with Making Terrorist Threat
  
• De Bolshevik Releasing Hundreds of Inmates Out of Rikers Island Amid Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic
  
• Federal Prisons Are Failing To Monitor Communication Between Terrorist Inmates, Audit Finds

  HEALTHCARE
  Another item the at-home kiddies should watch.

• Prager U Video: There Is No Such Thing As Free Healthcare

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  The feminazis are evil and Walter Williams compares black school performance in conservative and "progressive" districts.

• University Called Out By Judge for "Railroading" Accused Student; Activists Claim School Isn't Pro-Accuser Enough
  
• Williams: Progressive Cities and Black Education

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  AG Barr clips the junk-tuckers.

• AG Barr Sides Against Trans Biological Males Competing With Girls in High School Sports

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Finally, some diversions from Chi-Com Lung AIDS: a reassessment of Edgar Degas' work, new book gets a thumbs up and even a Netflix series nixes SJW dogma in portraying latter day Jeffersons (George and Weezee, not Thomas).

• Edgar Degas' Work is Less Sentimental and More Complex Than I Thought
  
• Why Wanderers is a Must-Read Novel for Our Challenging Times
  
• Netflix's Self-Made Showcases Capitalism's Inherent Ability to Uplift Minorities (we're movin' on up... - jjs)

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