As noted many times before, the news keeps rapidly changing on the frontlines fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. As recently as St. Patrick’s Day, models were predicting upwards of 2+ million deaths in the US.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is not another train coming at us. A solution to the COVID-19 epidemic is visible. The key to returning to normalcy is the rate at which people who contract the illness need to be hospitalized.
The media have been mostly ignoring this. Every day and night they are blaring the TOTAL number of people who have gotten it along with the number who have died. Of course, these numbers go up. They will continue to do so because people will get the illness and, unfortunately, some will die.
When the media does pay attention to hospitalization, it is usually to scream that a hospital is being overwhelmed. They pay little attention to the hospitalization rate, that is, the number of people who require hospitalization out of the number who fall ill. This is the key to getting back to normal.
Let’s talk a couple of what-if scenarios.
Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff for President Obama and current mayor of Chicago, once said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” He was espousing the idea of using a crisis to get other things approved that had no chance otherwise.
Today with the coronavirus crisis in full bloom, governors are misrepresenting and/or lying about conditions and circumstances to move their state up on the list to get supplies or to get more money from the federal government.
On Thursday Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to President Trump saying it was “long past the time” to name a senior military officer to lead the supply-chain effort.
As usual, Senator Schumer was attempting to smear the administration regarding U.S. supply needs in combating COVID-19. This seems to be the only activity the Democrats are engaged in lately.
The letter is ridiculous since Admiral John Polowczyk is already in that supply-chain procurement and distribution position and Schumer knew this.
Apparently the Senator forgot that PDJT is a ferocious counter-puncher.
On Tuesday evening Tucker Carlson did a piece on Fox News on the possible origins of COVID-19. In it he discussed a report that claimed that the virus may have originated from a Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan.
This is the second in this series about things we have learned from the Chinese Flu crisis also known as COVID-19.
The question for today is can the World Health Organization (WHO) be trusted? Are their pronouncements regarding health issues around the world worth anything more than something that can be used to line the bottom of bird cages?
The article below by Fred Lucas over at the Daily Signal presents facts, anecdotal evidence, rumors and speculation. It raises some serious questions about the accuracy of the Chinese Communist Party’s numbers regarding the Wuhan virus. Of course, you must keep in mind China is a communist country and will lie when it suits their long-term plans. After they covered up the beginnings of this crisis and lied about human-to-human transmission, any pronouncement should be met with a huge dose of skepticism.
BTW have any Chinese government officials been infected? How about elite military officials? If not, why not?
It is well worth the time to read it.
The Chinese government says it has lifted the lockdown for the province of Hubei, where the coronavirus first emerged, and has reported no new results for several days.
However, much anecdotal information has arisen to call the official line from the Chinese Communist Party into question. Continue reading...
One of the big-time mantras for the Democratic party and their friends in the media’s using the race card. They believe the race card will blunt any strong, logical argument against some policy favored by the Democrats to keep minorities down on the plantation. One only has to look at our inner cities that have been run by Democrats for decades to see this. The Democrats have been hugely successful in fooling the people for more than 50 years.
One of the things that PDJT has not been bashful about since he started running for the presidency is calling the MSM out for running fake news stories. The left-wing news outlets (that’s most of them) will jump at any opportunity to run a fake story to put PDJT and his administration in a bad light.
The MSM ran stories for two years about Russian collusion without a scintilla of evidence to back them up. They hired former Obama administration people to go on air and claim to have access to classified information proving this. All of this was lies.
When the Special Counsel investigation ended, at least one outlet held a meeting with its editorial staff congratulating them on their efforts and directing them to switch gears to show the public just how racist the President was. Again, no evidence was needed.
Things continue to change very quickly on the frontlines.
Dr. Zelenko’s (Jewish doctor in NY) cocktail of three cheap, proven and widely available drugs has now been used to treat 699 patients in the greater New York area. This out-patient treatment consists of the common anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with the popular antibotic azithromycin (known as Z-Pak) and zinc sulfate. Doses of vitamin C have been added to the treatment.
To date only four patients have needed hospitalization. Other doctors in the NY metropolitan area who have decided to try this treatment regimen are reporting similar results.