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    The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

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    5 Major Paradigm Shifts The Wuhan Flu Crisis Has Revealed Americans Need

    By Ben Weingarten
     
    Our first priority amid coronavirus must be neutralizing immediate threats to health and safety, but the disruption also provides a chance to engage in national reflection.

    1. Communist China Is a Global Menace

    2. Coronavirus Starkly Illustrates Globalism’s Downsides

    3. We Must Establish Principles for Dealing with Crises

    4. The GOP Needs a Real Response for Democrats’ Games

    5. We Need to Get Our Fiscal House in Order

     

    (There is discussion and links at each of the five)

     

    It is paramount that the American people get healthy and that our country gets back to the business of business. But we must not simply gloss over the truths this crisis has revealed. Recognizing them and incorporating them into future policies will ensure the long-term vitality of our country.

     

     

     

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    The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

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    WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUITS. LOTS OF WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUITS:  

     

    Governor of Nevada bans use of chloroquine.

     

     

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    Fauci Would Prescribe Chloroquine to Patient Suffering From ...

     

    1 day ago - In the past 24 hours, Dr. Anthony Fauci has said there is no ... we learn that he would prescribe hydroxychloroquine to a patient if he were treating ... "Yeah, of course, particularly if people have no other option," Fauci said.

     
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    The China Problem

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    JIM TREACHER: The Virus Is a Fire, and the Arsonist Is China. 

     

    “China did this. It’s not racist to say so. Telling the truth doesn’t make you responsible for the actions of racists. Thinking so, saying so, only helps the people who did this to you.”

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    BECAUSE IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, AND CHINA’S KNOWN TO LIE? 

     

    Why the World’s Doing a Double-Take on China’s No-New-Infection Claim.

     

    Still, skepticism about China’s no-new-local-infections claim is widespread, including, at least according to the anecdotal evidence, inside China. The doubt is fueled both by China’s Communist Party’s long history of propaganda and by the obvious benefits of changing the focus from the government’s initial efforts to suppress information about the coronavirus to its supposedly glorious victory over the disease crippling much of the world.

     

    “A propaganda spokesman’s job is the turn messy facts into a clean narrative,” Andrew J. Nathan, professor of political science at Columbia University and a leading China expert, said in an email. “China is trying to bury the embarrassment of the Covid-19 cover-up in a happy story of triumph over the virus.

     

    “But it feels like overreaching to say that transmission has completely stopped,” Nathan continued. “It seems that the message is political, not epidemiological.”

     

    Indeed. Plus, seen on Facebook:

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    The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

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    America’s truckers face increasing challenges on front lines in war against coronavirus

    The Kansas City Star, by Judy L Thomas

    Original Article

     

     

     

     

    KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Senate Unanimously Passes Coronavirus Relief Bill—Someone Should Check on Granny Boxwine. 

    “Pelosi engaged in some of the most shameless politicking for personal gain of her career, and that’s saying quite a lot. Thankfully, it was all for naught. However, as Tyler mentioned in his headline, she was gambling with people’s lives. This should be a permanent stain on her career, but the thoroughly evil press is no doubt working on ways to run interference for her.”

     

     

     

     

     
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    There should be a national dialogue in getting back to work

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    Contra Andrew Cuomo, While A Grim Choice, We May Have To Restart The Economy

    by Jazz Shaw

     

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    The coronavirus may have resulted from bad decisions by people who didn’t understand the consequences of all of that food mixing in the wet markets, but once the genie was out of the bottle, the coronavirus became, for purposes of this discussion an accidental Act of God. We’re fighting it as hard as we can and I partially agree with Governor Cuomo that we have to do this intelligently. It’s not an all or nothing, binary decision. But half measures (or far less) in terms of avoiding another great depression aren’t going to do.

     

    I’m not talking about economic Darwinism here or saying we should just start digging mass graves for all the senior citizens. (Including yours truly.) We can turn the economy on again and do it in a smart way that saves us from a decade of economic despair while minimizing the health risks, can’t we? I will again agree with Cuomo that it would be reckless and irresponsible to send everyone back to work at once. But his plan to send only those who have survived the disease and developed immunity back on the job is far too timid. It will take too long to get the test kits distributed and identify them all, and even then, we’re probably only talking about a few tens of thousands of people at most, at least for now.

     

    Surely there is a way to keep the oldest and those with other, underlying health issues (making them more vulnerable to death) isolated at home and eligible for government support. At the same time, the young and the healthy could return to work, but with better practicing of social distancing and cleanliness at the workplace. As more people get the disease and survive it, the herd immunity grows and we slow the rate of additional infections until we have either a vaccine or a working antiviral medication. If we got a significant body of people back to being productive, the total burden would be decreased and shared.

     

    And something has to give soon. Congress is on the verge of essentially taking two trillion dollars (roughly 10% of our GDP) and setting it on fire. How many times can we do that before we hit the point of no return?

     

    If you wouldn’t shut down all of the highways to prevent a single person from dying in a car crash, if you wouldn’t ban the sale of cleaning products to prevent accidental poisonings, if you wouldn’t destroy all the bridges to prevent anyone from leaping off of them, why would you send the nation (and the world) into a great depression to prevent some possible deaths from a disease that was totally beyond our control to prevent and will take time to bring to heel?

     

    I say this as a person in their sixties who has had respiratory issues. If I catch the coronavirus, there’s a more than fair probability I will die. Of course, I might get hit by a truck tomorrow. I’m going to die eventually. I’m not saying that the possibility I’m suggesting is pleasant.

     

    I’m not saying we should be complacent about any preventable deaths. But the alternative is pretty grim also. Are you sure that driving the number of COVID-19 deaths down to the absolute, conceivable minimum is worth the price we’ll wind up paying?

     

     

     

     

     

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