Operation: Coronavirus Hurricane: V For Virus

COVID-19 is An In-Kind Contribution from China, Inc. to the Democrats--but don’t worry. This Acme Chinavirus will backfire on Coyote, too.

Fear not!

“A scared world needs a fearless church.”--A.W. Tozer

“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”--Pres. Calvin Coolidge

"When this virus is defeated, our great American economy will bounce back rapidly. We are going to WIN, sooner rather than later! God Bless the USA!"--Pres. Donald Trump

Sniffer Biden: “A wall will not stop the coronavirus. Banning all travel from Europe--or any other part of the world--will not stop it.” This is why you don’t want a president who is taking multi-$Billion-dollar payoffs from China and Europe through his son.

Derek Hunter: "That journalism is dead has been a punchline for so long that we’ve forgotten how that fact has real world consequences. We’re now paying the price for the failure of that profession to hold itself to any semblance of standards. As worry and straight-up panic sweep large swaths of the country, causing irrational toilet paper hoarding and runs on canned goods, there is no outlet and no journalist worthy of trust when it comes to conveying truthful information to the public or to hold anyone in power accountable. Eight years of sycophantic, throne sniffing coverage under President Barack Obama gave way to four years of nitpicking, hostility, and conspiracy theories. There are no standards anymore; if someone on TV hates President Trump, there is no outrageous, medically dubious statement they can make on CNN or MSNBC that will be challenged and if they love him, there is nothing that will be challenged on Fox."

Um...you haven't watched Fox recently, have you pal? They're almost as bad as the usual suspects. They just sent Trish Regan home for Speaking Truth to Speaker Ryan. Last week, the Press Corpse kept asking the President and the Vice-President about testing because they have already written the story “Reckless President Finally Shakes Wrong Hand” or “President Who Downplayed Virus Now Catches It” or something like that. They were hoping for it. To them, this is another Democrat campaign event just like all the others, starting with the CIA spying on Candidate Trump. These wretched ghouls don’t give a damn about helping people, It’s all about the “Gotcha’!”. In fact, the more vulnerable people they can panic, the better they like it. This week, they've taken to repeating China's talking points about the Chinese Virus.

Or is it China repeating Democrat talking points?

Prof. Hanson: "The coronavirus could be the straw that breaks the proverbial back of the Chinese camel, stooped under the recent weight of a trade war with the U.S., the revelation of 1 million Uighurs in reeducation camps, the crackdown on Hong Kong democracy protesters, and news of the sprawling Chinese internal-surveillance apparat. The world is now both terrified and put off by China, and such anathemas will only harm its already suspect and misbegotten Silk Road neocolonial schemes.
Here in the U.S., COVID-19 will create bipartisan pressure to adopt policies of keeping key U.S. industries — such as medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, and military applied high-tech — in America. Americans will not again wish to outsource the vast majority of their chemotherapy-drug, antibiotic, and heart-medicine production to a government that cannot be trusted and that sees such globalized output as a weapon to be used in extremis.Although we cannot see it now, spin-off effects from the panic and frenzy will eventually fuel more economic recovery. Oil prices are nearing record modern lows, ensuring cheap gas for spring and summer American drivers. Cheap mortgages and car loans likewise will spur buying, as will relief once the virus wanes and splurging ensue. ...
Call it paradox, irony, karma, or even tragedy, but China emerges from its deceit about the coronavirus outbreak in its weakest position since its Westernization began under Deng Xiaoping. And the U.S., after some rocky months ahead, if it stays calm, will likely reemerge in its strongest state in memory vis-à-vis its rivals." …….

Julie Kelly: "This is a dangerous time and not just because of the threat of a treatable disease. Americans are willingly surrendering to government their freedom, their livelihood, their long-term economic security, and their mental well-being over unjustified panic about a virus that might have already spread and now is abating. If this is the new normal, where incomplete data and media-fueled panic rule the day, that is an even more frightening prospect than what’s happening right now." …….

I'm not a fan of Dr. Fauci. He's a lifelong bureaucrat with a medical degree, not a practicing physician with a temporary government job. He acts more like a politician, too. He's also been there forever, so why wasn't the CDC better-prepared? His concerns seem to lie with Big Pharma and Big Government.  I had assumed that “flattening the curve” meant breaking the cycle and lessening the overall number of infections. Merely spreading out the same number of infections, while easier to cope with, doesn’t sound like much of a victory, as if we’d fought WWII over eight years instead of four with the same number of casualties. It would also be helpful to know how many of those “Italian” numbers are among the 300,000 Chinese nationals in Italy, especially those who travelled back and forth to China. To my mind, those should be counted as Chinese casualties.

Here's some good news:

"Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced legislation Thursday to repatriate pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to America, aiming to reduce a dependency that could seriously limit the U.S. coronavirus response. The bill, which Cotton introduced with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), aims to severely curtail the volume of Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from the U.S. medical drug supply. The PRC currently produces most of the world's APIs—the "active ingredients" in commonly used drugs—leaving the United States and other nations critically dependent on it for medicines. Cotton's is just the latest proposal to onshore pharmaceutical supply chains, including a similar one from Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and rumblings from the White House about a "buy American" executive order."...….

Made In America:

"We found that an ambitious but realistic reshoring program could create 804,000 US jobs and add $200 billion to annual GDP in the first year. The benefits in terms of security of supply are separate, and in times like the present, critically important."...….

Of cour$e, we'd have to fight Mitch and the Chamber to do it. As Mark Steyn put it "US corporations are addicted to China as too many unemployed Americans are to heroin and meth. We need to break the dependency."

About time somebody else started thinking about our future and not just how to make a buck off of us.

Meanwhile, It’s National Take Your Work To Kids Month.

I want all Americans to understand: we are at war with an invisible enemy, but that enemy is no match for the spirit and resolve of the American people. It cannot overcome the dedication of our doctors, nurses, and scientists — and it cannot beat the LOVE, PATRIOTISM, and DETERMINATION of our citizens. Strong and United, WE WILL PREVAIL!