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It’s Wednesday, March 25th, 2020…but before we begin, this story’s a new low, even for FOX News:
“…Natasha Ott, 39, died on Saturday. Her boyfriend, Josh Anderson, 40, said in a viral Facebook post that he found her body in the kitchen of her apartment after going to check on her. “Seeing a woman I knew to be so full of life lying on the floor lifeless was devastating.I was afraid to touch her. I held her anyway,” he wrote.
Anderson claims that Ott first complained of feeling unwell earlier this month, on March 10. At the time, the woman told him she was experiencing cold-like symptoms and a “tiny fever.”
Ott, a social worker, told Anderson that the medical clinic where she worked, Crescent Care, had some coronavirus tests available, but she declined to take one because she was considered low-risk and wanted to leave as many tests available for those in desperate need. But Ott’s condition continued to deteriorate. She tested negative for the flu and eventually received a coronavirus test about a week after falling ill, on March 16. She was reportedly told she would receive the results in about five days…”
In other words, this is an uncorroborated, sensationalized account with no factual basis whatsoever other than the unfortunate Ms. Ott undeniably died. And while FOX clearly infers her untimely demise was the result of the Wuhan Virus, pending the results of her test and an autopsy, neither of which were completed at the time of publication, any conclusion as to her cause of death is pure conjecture.
Again, this isn’t insightful reporting, it’s inciteful hyperbole.
In a related item of fact-free opinion posing as reporting…
“On today’s menu: a day-by-day, month-by-month breakdown of China’s coronavirus coverup and the irreparable damage it has caused around the globe…”
The entire article, accessible through the links on the headline above, is well worth your time, though we frankly find both of Jim’s negative references to The Donald more than a little unfair…and this coming from someone who’s never been known give Trump a break he didn’t deserve.
Next up, as Townhall.com‘s Katie Pavlich details, immune to the nation’s suffering…
“Aspreviously reported, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came back to Washington D.C. last night after a week long recess and blew up days of emergency relief work done by the Senate. (Don’t kid yourself: Chucky Schumer knew exactly what Nancy was up to.)She wants to write her own far left bill and now we know what will be in it.
According to a source close to the process on Capitol Hill, in order to move forward with any kind of relief package, Pelosi and her far-left Democrat caucus will demand the following be included:
-Publication of corporate pay statistics by race and race statistics for all corporate boards
-A bail out on all current debt at the Postal Service
-Required early voting
-Required same day voter registration
-Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining
-Full offset of airline emissions by 2025
-Publication and reporting of greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
-Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
-Federal $15 minimum wage
-Permanent paid leave
-Study on climate change mitigation efforts
The [reporting] provisions will apply to the companies and business rescued by bill…”
Add on $35 million for the Kennedy Center, $1 billion for broadband access and Obamaphones for the “poor”…along with financial support for PBS and student loan forgiveness…and you get the real picture. To hell with the country, they’re focused on enacting otherwise unpopular Progressive political policies, as these are all items the Dims couldn’t possibly pass in the normal course of business.
But then, thanks to the ChiComs and their fellow travelers among America’s Liberal leaders and MSM shills, our current circumstances are far from normal. And far be it from Dimocratic Socialists to ever let a good crisis go to waste!
Moving on, Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman relates the interrelationship between the…
“This column will leave it to others to explain why pressuring people to cancel immediately an event which is not scheduled to occur until late July should be anyone’s priority right now. But regardless of the timeline, closures should be the result of careful consideration of the evidence. An influential group focused on public health and infectious disease says that’s not happening.
Writing “on behalf of the WHO Novel Coronavirus-19 Mass Gatherings Expert Group,” several authors published on Friday in the British medical journal Lancet a comment on “mass gathering events,” known as MGs. They write:
Despite the development of the COVID-19 Risk Assessment for MGs tool, events continue to be cancelled without this risk assessment being done and without clear communication of justification in terms of the expected impact on the spread of COVID-19. These cancellations have social and economic impacts on public morale, on national economies, and on individual livelihoods. The effect of MG cancellations on reducing the spread of COVID-19 needs to be determined. The global public health community needs to consider the effects of MG cancellations on the future wellbeing of communities through economic recession or job losses, as well as through the spread, or otherwise, of COVID-19. A precautionary approach is often used to explain MG cancellations, but when does an abundance of caution become counterproductive?
That question goes for the entire response to the virus…Let’s rule out destroying our economy without at least trying to assess costs and benefits of virus countermeasures…”
Doctors aren’t economists, and vice versa. Nor are doctors generally elected officials ultimately responsible for the overall well-being of a nation rather than just its physical health.
Here’s the juice: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Which is to say, with limited tools at their disposal, even well-meaning people can apply them incorrectly, inappropriately and/or indiscriminately. Or, as in America’s response to the Wuhan Virus, those schooled in a certain, single subject may be inclined to believe their area of expertise holds the answer to every aspect of the problem.
The fact remains, we…and at least one Swiss MD in this item forwarded by Jeff Foutch…would beg to differ. And if the findings of this late-2019 study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security courtesy of George Lawlor are at all accurate, it would appear the seemingly unending criticism of the Trump Administration’s response is at best overblown, and at worst undeserved…particularly when compared to The Boy Blunder’s reaction to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, during which 1,000 of our fellow citizens died before Obama even recognized the seriousness of the situation.
Which brings us, incongruously enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this meme from our sister-in-law Jackie…
…along with this string of TP-focused humor from Ed Hickey:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with News of the Bizarre, and yet another reason not to self-medicate, especially when the label on the bottle says “Fish Tank Cleaner”:
“An Arizona man is dead after he and his wife tried to protect themselves from the coronavirus by drinking fish tank cleaner. They got the idea to drink the cleaner because it contains the additive chloroquine. President Donald Trump said the additive is being explored as a possible treatment for the virus.(No, Trump said (see video below) the anti-malarial drug Chloroquine is being explored as a possible treatment for the Wuhan Virus!)
Health experts are advising to never ingest household products to treat or prevent a virus. (Where would we be without “experts“?!?)
The couple, in their 60s, began to feel sick within about 30 minutes of drinking the chemicals…”
“In their 60s”: sorry, but is that a reference to their ages or IQs?!? Mark these two down as early favorites for a Darwin Award, though, as Super T observed, the cocktail certainly prevented the husband from contracting COVID-19.
Also, please note, as the video below confirms, Trump touted “Chloroquine” and “Hydroxychloroquine”…
…NOT “Chloroquine Phosphate”, the warning label…
…notwithstanding.
At the risk of seeming unfeeling, this is natural selection at work. Absent certain convicted criminals and unindicted Dimocrats, no one deserves to die; but there’s no doubt this poor guy’s passing just deepened the gene pool.
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