It’s Friday, March 20th, 2020…but before we begin, let’s put this hyperbolic headline from FOX on the born-in-Beijing Wuhan Virus pandemic into proper perspective…
Here’s a look back on the 2009 swine flu pandemic with eight key facts from the CDC:
1. The flu strain responsible for the outbreak — influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 — was first detected in America in April 2009.
2. The strain represented a unique combination of influenza viruses never before seen in humans or animals.
3. The virus quickly spread globally, primarily affecting children and adults under 65 who lacked immunity to H1N1.
4. The WHO declared the swine flu outbreak a pandemic on June 11, 2009.
5. Between April 12, 2009, and April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates swine flu caused 60.8 million illnesses, 273,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the U.S.
6. On Oct. 5, 2009, (6 months, give or take) the U.S. began administering a newly approved H1N1 vaccine to select Americans, with vaccination coverage expanding nationwide by that December.
7. WHO declared an end to the pandemic on Aug. 10, 2010.
8. Globally, an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 people died from swine flu in the first year of the pandemic.
For reference, the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened 1,323 Americans and killed 38, as of March 12. More than 127,00 cases and 4,700 deaths have been reported globally.“
Is it any wonder Dennis Prager, as well as other inquiring minds like us, continue to contemplate…
In three other related items from Townhall.com, (1). like Joe Biden getting angry when confronted with uncomfortable facts, Katie Pavlich details the reasons behind Xi’s expulsion of U.S. journalists.
(2). The MSM’s increasingly-desperate attempts to blame the Wuhan Virus on Trump notwithstanding, as Larry O’Connor relates, it’s actually the ChiCom’s Chernobyl.
“…The fact is, China’s authoritarian communist government is facing an existential threat. If at the end of this global crisis (and yes, it will end) the major countries of the Western world collectively recognize the danger of relying on mainland China for the manufacturing and fabrication of almost everything that drives our economies, the entire Marxist Ponzi scheme constructed by the Maoists in Beijing comes tumbling down.
So, China is doing what China does. It is using misinformation, propaganda and intimidation to try to change peoples’ words and even their thoughts. Don’t blame them for it…they’re communists. This is what they do. This is what they’ve always done…”
And, (3). Matt Vespa summarizes why, as we’ve mentioned numerous times before, the Wuhan Virus was effectively born in Beijing:
…Like all authoritarian governments, disasters of this scale cannot be allowed to happen. Look how long it took the Soviets to realize that Chernobyl was, uh, a HUGE problem. The same applies here.China didn’t want to look weak, powerless, and ineffective in a massive public health situation. They thought if they ignored it, it would go away. It didn’t. And now they’ve unleashed this mess onto the world. It was them…”
More specifically, it was Xi Jinping:
Which pretty much puts him on a par…
…with every other Communist dictator since Lenin’s Oktober Revolution cursed the world with the practical application of the hideous ideology of Marx and Engel.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
For more on what hopefully prove to be the consequences of Xi’s unconscionable acts of utter amorality, the great Victor Davis Hanson records the ultimate impact of…
“Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby.
Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew every day on direct flights into the United States (Washington and California especially) from late November to the beginning of February, until the Trump travel ban of January 31.
All this laxity was also known to the Communist apparat in Beijing, which must have been amused when Trump was roundly damned by his liberal critics as a xenophobe and racist for finally daring to stop the influx on January 31 — the first major leader to enact such a total ban.
Yet, no thanks to the Chinese, America, so far, has been comparatively lucky — despite the grave risks of damaging a multi-trillion-dollar economy with the strictest quarantining, isolation policies, and social distancing in its history.
…To the degree that we are suffering death and economic hurt from COVID-19, we can also attribute the toll to the Chinese Communist Party. Had it just called in the international medical community in late November, instituted early quarantines, and allowed its own citizens to use email and social media to apprise and warn others of the new disease, then the world and the U.S. would probably not have found themselves in the current panic. The reasons China did not act more responsibly may be inherent in communist governments, or they may involve more Byzantine causes left to be disclosed.
…Plus, 2020 is an election year — echoing how the 1976 swine flu was politicized. The Left and its media appendages saw COVID-19 as able to do what John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, the Mueller team, and impeachment could not: destroy the hated Trump presidency.
China will rue what it begat.
That is, it will come to appreciate fully that the supposed efficiency, ruthlessness, and autocracy of the Communist Party — what had so impressed foolish American journalists who once marveled at Beijing’s ability to enact by fiat liberal pet projects such as high-speed rail and solar industries — were China’s worst enemies, ensuring that the virus would spread and that China’s international reputation would be ruined.
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…”
The dead and dying…and soon to be both…in Italy and Iran bespeak the perils of making deals with the Devil.
Speaking of deals made with the Devil, here’s proof positive Progressive hypocrisy quite literally knows no bounds, as…
Talk about chutzpah: soooo, ICE bad, U.S. Military good. Yeah, whatever. Sorry, but at the risk of seeming callous, any effort to aid those who elected this colossal putz could be spent on those far more deserving.
Since we’re on the subject of disingenuous, demented Dimocrats more concerned with affording undeserved rights to the lawless than protecting the lives and property of the law-abiding, as Tucker Carlson records…
“Scientists and government officials fighting the coronavirus epidemic say they have a problem: Carefree youths.
As authorities moved to restrict social gatherings last week, bars and restaurants from New York to Berlin filled up with revelers, illegal “lockdown parties” popped up in France and Belgium, and campuses in the U.S. lit up for end-of-the-world dorm parties.
So far, most young Covid-19 patients have experienced mild or no symptoms from the virus, while more severe cases are concentrated among those aged 50 and over. Data released last week by the National Health Institute in Italy, currently the world’s worst-hit country, shows mortality rates starting at 0% for patients aged 0 to 29 and edging up to peak at 19% for those over 90.
Yet scientists say tests have shown children and young adults are no less likely than older people to get infected and transmit the virus. Epidemiologists are growing concerned that the millennial pushback against social-distancing measures—and an emerging generational divide about how the disease is perceived—could undo all efforts to slow the spread of the virus and put vulnerable people at high risk.
President Trump on Monday stressed that young people can spread the virus even if they only have mild symptoms and recommended that Americans avoid restaurants and gatherings of more than 10 people. French President Emmanuel Macron went further, announcing a nationwide lockdown and punishment for those who violate the rules.
So far, the young don’t seem to be listening…”
Likely because they chafe at making any sort of sacrifice themselves, and don’t believe the pandemic threatens them personally. How else can one explain Millennials and Generation Zers taking the highly-hypothetical and future threat posed by the junk science of anthropogenic global warming so seriously, while blithely disregarding the very clear and present danger of the Wuhan Virus.
As the amazing Michael Ramirez (second only in our mind to the unparalleled brilliance of Stilton Jarlsberg!) characterized them, they’re…
Meanwhile, as Guy Benson relates at Townhall.com, the…
Been there, done that. Perhaps next time this ignorant a*sclown won’t so blithely dismiss the discomfort of others. Oh, and we suffered in silence…by ourselves…in a condo without the care and compassion of TLJ.
Moving on, this one is odd, even for the post-Comey FBI:
“…“Due to the emerging COVID-19 situation, the FBI is not accepting electronic Freedom of Information/Privacy Act requests or sending out electronic responses through the eFOIPA portal at this time. You may still submit a FOIPA request via standard mail. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding,” a red-bolded disclaimerstatedon the FBI website.
The sudden halt of electronic FOIA requests sparked puzzled reactions on social media.
“This is crazy but, then again, FBI and FOIA is a disastrous combo,” BuzzFeed senior investigative Jason Leopold tweeted…”
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these three TP-related memes from Ed Harvey…
…along with these from Ed Hickey:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with yet another inane example of Your Tax Dollars at Work, courtesy today of Jeff Foutch and one more in a seemingly unending line of ineffective, likely-criminal leaders of a Liberal enclave, as…
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