- Regarding the COVID-19 disaster: It is past time to move on — the shutdowns should not have happened to the extent they did, producing a foreseeable economic disaster
- Incorporate what has been learned, proper focus, prepare accordingly, but never take this route again
- Trump is moving to Make America Great Again
Here are links to four commentaries with some excerpts that reflect many of our thoughts.
In spite of our general disdain for Bill Maher as the saying goes “even a broke clock . . .” He does remind us with the cheap shot at the end why he is so often detestable, but here he is largely right. Thanks to BA for sending it.
From the intro: In his editorial New Rule, Bill argues that people should fight the coronavirus by strengthening their immune systems, rather than by sanitizing the universe.
From the commentaries to this on YouTube:
“Reported to the censors for ‘rational thinking.'”
“This is the same guy who said we needed a recession. And they are not trying to stop immigration. They are trying to stop illegal immigration.”
By Mike Ford at RedState (excerpts)
Opinion: Continuing The Shutdown Is Downright Immoral
Sometimes it takes me a while to figure stuff out. At the very beginning of the current morass we are mired in, even as a conservative, I was willing to give the Executives at all levels, Federal, State and Local a little bit of wiggle room. After all, this China Virus thing was a bit different and I wasn’t the one sitting in the “Buck Stops Here” seat. I voted for my President and I voted (secondarily) for my Governor (who replaced the guy I actually voted for…long story). I’m not of the mind to second guess them for most of their decisions early on in this debacle.
Of late, I have come to a much less sanguine conclusion. I say this as an ardent Trump supporter. This lockdown is fundamentally immoral and has been from almost the very beginning.
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What is amoral, nay outright immoral, is arbitrarily deciding to deprive a certain class of American citizens of their fundamental right to feed their families. What could be more immoral than restricting the movements of American citizens who have committed no crime. Compounding said immorality, we did this based on little to no evidence that they posed any real danger to anyone but an extremely small segment of society. That segment could have been easily protected without trampling on civil rights of the rest of our citizenry. This is the first time that I know of, that we effectively quarantined American citizens whom we had no idea whether or not they were carriers of some disease.
We have driven and continue to drive the engine of our standard of living, small businesses into bankruptcy and placing most of their employees into penury. What is really sad, is that the people least able to weather such an economic storm are the ones most affected. People in more highly paid occupations, tend to be in jobs not as affected by social distancing measures as those at lower pay rates, who work in service industry jobs requiring in person contact with other people. They are truly suffering. A paltry $1,200.00 check will do little to pay the rent and put food on the table, much less restore the dignity that having meaningful work and paying your way through life affords.
The folks who can least afford this paycheck interruption or worse, permanent loss of the jobs they formerly occupied, are the very ones who have been put out of work by this overreaction and disregard for American rights. By doing this, we have created two classes, haves and have nots, all by government fiat. Some of this might have been justifiable early on. Not so anymore. At this point, what every state Governor but one is doing, is flat out wrong—it’s immoral and needs to stop. Now.
From a post at DK Facebook site:
Sad how easily most people gave up their liberty because they are clueless of this. I understand the fear that was spewed by “experts”, government officials and the media (sorry for the redundancy). That being said common sense, logic and reality was clearly showing they were all guessing. Since NONE of the “models they used were not remotely accurate people should have a healthy skepticism on anything these three entities I listed above say
From a Washington Times report:
Trump calls reopenings a ‘beginning,’ vows to rebuild ‘greatest’ economy to ‘do it again’
President Trump opened a new phase of his election year crisis leadership on Tuesday, traveling to the battleground state of Arizona and vowing to rebuild an economy devastated by the coronavirus in the six months left before he faces voters’ judgment.
“We’re going to build the greatest economy in the world again,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I did it once. We’re going to do it again, and that’s what we’re starting. I view these last couple of days as the beginning.”
On his first trip outside the Washington region in more than a month, Mr. Trump visited a Honeywell International plant in Phoenix, where repurposed employees were manufacturing N95 masks for health care workers and others on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. He thanked Honeywell employees for being part of “an incredible industrial mobilization” to fight the disease.
“Our country wants to open. The governors — it’s in their hands, but our country wants to open,” he said. “The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. Our country has to open.”
The president, confronting an unemployment rate that is likely to climb to nearly 20%, said the nation must take necessary risks to allow more Americans to go back to work.
“I’m not saying anything is perfect,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “Will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open, and we have to get it open soon.”
Ah those public health officials
