April 11, 2020
Economic shutdown: It's time to end it
By Patricia McCarthy
There is a line in the film The Fiddler on the Roof: “Wouldn’t now be a good time for the Messiah to come.â€
It is uttered as the Jews of the Ukrainian village of Anatevka are being forced from their homes in one of the many pogroms that took place at the turn of the 20th century throughout Czarist Russia, around 1905. Nearly all faiths have some version of a Messiah – the promise of the arrival of savior, a liberator, or perhaps a golden age of peace. However one imagines a messiah, now would be a good time for our beleaguered earthbound President Trump to bite the bullet and liberate the American economy from this stranglehold and let people get back to work. It is also time for the drastic restructuring of America’s mainstream media and the entrenched political class it serves without regard for facts, for it is overwhelmingly leftist, anti-American, untruthful and alarmist. Not a person on earth should doubt China’s evil genocidal malfeasance with regard to COVID-19 but our media pretends China is as much a victim as the rest of the world. Whether or not the virus was created it in a lab and purposely released into the unsuspecting population of Wuhan and then the world, or it was accidental and came from an infected lab worker who transferred the virus to the wet market in that city where all manner of wild animals and rodents are sold for food, or it came from the vermin itself, China is culpable. They kept it quiet, hid the evidence, jailed the whistleblowers, and lied about its transmission. They banned flights from Wuhan to every other city in China but allowed flights to every other country around the world. Who is to blame for minimizing it in this country aside from China? The CDC, the WHO, and a host of other media types. But for a few hosts on Fox News, the rest of the media were obsessed with impeachment, and silent on the virus until they realized it could be used as the next assault on the president.
When President Trump banned incoming flights from China on Jan. 31, he was eviscerated by the left, Joe Biden in particular. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci argued against Trump’s travel ban but the president went with his gut and did it, likely saving thousands of lives. That his gut instincts are smarter and wiser than the entrenched bureaucracy of D.C. makes them hate him all the more. Trump has exposed the blinkered thinking of the swamp. The initial response to the virus, even after the travel ban, was hampered by the ridiculous red tape imposed on the president and the rest of us by the CDC and the FDA. The CDC insisted only they could provide or approve tests. They had none and slowed the development of such tests by others. It was the CDC that was caught flatfooted. Then, like the climate crisis alarmists, they operated on computer modeling without admitting that there was obvious bias infused in every computer model. Garbage in, garbage out. Fauci and Birx are both lifelong Democrats who, despite their expertise in their field, may have wittingly or unwittingly seen this virus as an opportunity to disparage Trump. How else can we explain their drastically overblown predictions that led to the complete shutdown of the nation? Those models have been recalculated, the morbidity rate is now similar to that of a seasonal flu, and only slightly more than the 2017 flu. Why do they not repeat over and over again that nearly all those who die have one or several serious other life-threatening medical conditions, principally obesity, diabetes, hypertension or heart disease? Because the CDC is using the deaths caused by those underlying conditions to inflate the death rate.
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