There has been a full-on media blackout of the new study outlining the ineffectiveness of lockdowns to prevent COVID deaths.

Johns Hopkins University economics professor Steve Hanke, Lund University economics professor Lars Jonung, and special advisor at Copenhagen’s Center for Political Studies Jonas Herby – analyzed the effects of lockdown measures such as school shutdowns, business closures, and mask mandates on COVID-19 deaths. “We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates,” the researchers wrote.

The researchers also examined shelter-in-place orders, finding that they reduced COVID-19 mortality by 2.9%.
— Fox News, 2/4/22

It took a little while but when the relevance-starved attention-seekers continue to get the face time they crave, they eventually say too much and spill the beans. So, what were the lockdowns REALLY all about…?

The next appropriate questions would be, just who gave Fauci and other so-called health officials the right to recommend and implement lockdowns that killed thousands of small businesses nationwide, put millions of Americans out of work, and stunted the academic growth of children when it was really all about those who may have financial interests in a vaccine that didn’t work, thus requiring subsequent ineffective boosters whose only real purpose is to line the pockets of pharmaceuticals?

These arrogant taxpayer-funded employees believed they could use force to make the “naive” take an experimental drug where no side effects were disclosed (because it’s physically too early to know what they are), and also employed a blackmail tactic making Americans have to choose between employment and risking their permanent health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and their media are doing everything possible to ignore the numerous stories of the previously healthy dropping dead shortly after taking the vaccine or booster and now the majority of those in hospitals from COVID-19 being the fully vaccinated.

Fauci’s cavalier admission should be a meme used so often that he can’t show his face in public without answering some very pertinent questions.

On one hand, the left demands divestment on any entity that has interests in traditional apartheid governments while others get a pass. Sports is a prime example.

How do professional sports teams get the money to pay their athletes outrageous contracts? The main source is multi-billion dollar broadcast deals where television networks pay for the rights to air each team’s games. The United States is a big market but pales compared to what a country with a population like China lures, so care is taken not to offend a partner of that size.

NBA China and BesTV, a member of the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group, announced on Sunday that they are expanding their partnership to deliver extensive NBA games and programming to fans in China. The NBA’s partnership with the Shanghai Media Group (SMG), the parent company of the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group, dates back to the 1996-97 NBA season.

As the Official Multimedia Partner of the NBA in China, BesTV and SMG’s extensive media platforms will offer nearly 1,300 NBA games to viewers each year.
— China Daily, 10/10/16

Geopolitics can make business relationships contentious and one example is the documented slave labor in China, specifically of the Uyghurs, who are forced to produce goods for Abercrombie & Fitch, Amazon, GAP, H&M, Jack & Jones, Sharp, Siemens, Skechers, ASUS, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, BMW, Volkswagen, Sony, Polo Ralph Lauren, Puma, Victoria’s Secret, Vivo, Fila, Adidas, Puma, Huawei, Lenovo, and Nike (specifically) NBA merchandise that personally and financially benefits players. Many high-profile players like Los Angeles Lakers LeBron James will interject himself into American politics on race issues while defending human rights abusers as to not negatively affect his wallet.

Yes, we all do have freedom of speech. But at times, there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and you’re only thinking about yourself. So many people could have been harmed — not only financially, but physically, emotionally, spiritually. Just be careful about what we tweet, what we say and what we do. Yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.
— LeBron James, 10/15/19

Other liberals benefiting from financial arrangements with the Chinese communists have chosen to look the other way in silence. One decided to speak out and it didn’t go well. During a recent “All-in-Podcast episode, billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya spoke with fellow liberals and it didn’t go well. Most networks reporting on his honest assessment of the Uyghur plight only played a short clip of his offending comments.

It was a striking comment for someone who excoriated his fellow venture capitalists back in 2017 for being a bunch of “well-intentioned, soulless cowards.” Palihapitiya soon after released statements calling for “nuanced discussion” and saying that the clip was taken “out of context.”
— New York Magazine, 1/18/22

Here’s the full segment, in context….

While it’s commendable that Palihapitiya believes we should take care of Americans before we save the world, he conveniently failed to mention that almost everything the Democrat left has done to “help” blacks, in particular, has only made things much worse.

Needless to say, the blowback from his comments were swift.

In a statement released Monday, the Golden State Warriors said, “Mr. Palihapitiya does not speak on behalf of our franchise, and his views certainly don’t reflect those of our organization.” Mr. Palihapitiya is a limited investor who has no day-to-day operating functions with the team, it added.

His comments on the podcast drew condemnation on Twitter.

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom wrote, “When @NBA says we stand for justice, don’t forget there are those who sell their soul for money & business like @chamath the owner of @warriors.”

 Mr. Palihapitiya is no minor player with a loose cannon of a mouth.

A Sri Lankan immigrant to Canada whose family got by on welfare payments when he was a child, Mr. Palihapitiya graduated from the University of Waterloo and worked at Bank of Montreal before moving to the U.S. during the dot-com era. He joined Facebook in 2007 to help grow its user base after stints at a venture-capital firm and America Online. He left Facebook in 2011 after he said Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg denied his request to start a cellphone business, and later emerged as a critic of his former employer.
— Wall Street Journal, 1/18/22

Virgin Galactic distanced itself Tuesday from Chamath Palihapitiya, the chairman of its board of directors, after he declared on a podcast that “nobody cares” about China’s human rights abuses toward Uyghurs.
— New York Post, 1/18/22

The western world has been very kind and generous to Chamath Palihapitiya and his family. He’s been able to achieve and live a very comfortable life, thanks to nations that cared enough about the plight of those in shithole countries to allow his family to flee genuine poverty.

His callous indifference to those less blessed is so… progressive.

So, it you were currently in hiding in Afghanistan, running low on money, food and knowing that at any time your door could be kicked in and you’d either be shot there or dragged in the street to be beheaded, would you have any optimism that the U.S. Department of State (under Joe Biden) would be soon coming to get you out?

On Monday Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared ‘a new diplomatic mission has begun’ in Afghanistan to try and get those remaining Americans out. He vowed to use diplomacy and leverage to bring out any Americans, allies, or Afghanis who assisted the US and want to leave, as critics pounded Biden for allowing the withdrawal before all Americans were out, comparing those who remained to hostages.
— Daily Mail, 8/31/21

While the left and their media have been gaslighting the American people on a variety of issues for years, their latest is the whole Afghanistan debacle is the fault of Donald Trump and with regards to those left behind, oh well. Let’s move on to things more important, like January 6th.

One thing is for sure: Donald Trump would NEVER leave hang Americans out to dry behind enemy lines and wouldn’t leave it solely to the State Department to use “diplomacy” (“strongly-worded” letters) on tyrants.

He’d didn’t rely solely on the impersonal Department of State bureaucracy to deal with some of the United States’ prominent adversaries (North Korea, China, Iran, Yemen) and his track record gave room for optimism.

For example….

Otto Warmbier, an American sentenced to 15 years’ hard labor by North Korea for alleged “anti-state acts,” has been released. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Tuesday morning that Warmbier, 22, was on his way back to the U.S. to be reunited with his family.

Warmbier has apparently been in a coma since shortly after his trial, according to The Washington Post. He was sentenced in March 2016. A statement from his parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, dated June 13, stated: “Otto is on a medevac on his flight home. Sadly, he is in a coma and we have been told he has been in that condition since March 2016. We learned of this only one week ago. We want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime in North Korea. We are so grateful he can finally be with people who love him.”
— Newsweek, 6/13/17

Three UCLA basketball players released from China for shoplifting thanked President Donald Trump, who later said, “you’re welcome.” Freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill spoke at a news conference Wednesday at the UCLA basketball stadium, the first time they had spoken publicly since Nov. 7, when they were held in Hangzhou. The three athletes were arrested a day before Trump’s arrival in China, and Trump said he spoke to his Chinese counterpart about the situation.

I had a great conversation with President Xi,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. “He was terrific, and they’re working on it right now. And hopefully everything is going to work out.”
— NBC News, 11/16/17

Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has secured the release of 17 prisoners foreign governments had detained.

“We’ve had 17 released, and we’re very proud of that record. Very proud. And we have others coming,” Trump said Saturday evening as he welcomed home Joshua Holt, an American citizen who had been detained in Venezuela for two years without trial. Unlike his predecessor, the president has managed to bring these prisoners home without freeing terrorists or paying millions of dollars in suspected ransom payments.
— Daily Caller, 5/27/18

The names of the released include Sabrina De Sousa, Aya Hijazi, Mohamed Hassanein, Sandy Phan-Gillis, Joshua Boyle, Caitlan Coleman, Kim Dong-Chul, Kim Hak-Song and Kim Sang-Duk.

And that was as of 2018. Who knows how sooner these could have occurred had it not been for the partisan, and in some cases, manufactured scandals that took up valuable time and attention of the Trump Administration.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury has been released from prison, describing the development as “very big.”

“Today we are bringing home another American citizen, big thing, very big,” Trump said at the beginning of a coronavirus task force briefing. Trump also said that the US is working hard to secure the release American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012. Separately, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Iran has released American Mike White on medical furlough.
— CNN, 3/9/20

President Donald Trump has secured the release of two American hostages held captive by Houthis in Yemen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. The two Americans, Sandra Loli and Mikael Gidada, and the remains of a third, Bilal Fateen, were released in exchange for the return of about 250 of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels from Oman, according to the White House.

Kash Patel, a deputy assistant to Trump who worked on the deal, told The Wall Street Journal that Loli had been held by the Houthis for about three years and Gidada was held captive for about a year.
— Fox News, 10/4/20

One would think President Joe Biden would personally understand and appreciate the American tradition of not leaving anyone behind.

Erik Prince, the co-founder of defense contractor Blackwater, ​is responding after the White House took a shot at him for offering to fly people out of Afghanistan on charter flights for $6,500 a seat — recalling that Blackwater ​soldiers had to rescue Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel when they got lost in a snowstorm in 2008.

“They were on a congressional visit to Afghanistan in the winter and their US Army helicopter got lost in a blinding snowstorm and set down in Taliban territory on the side of a mountain,” he told Tucker Carlson. “And the US military launched a ground convoy to get them and they got lost and the Blackwater guys launched and they did not get lost. And we recovered them. We rescued them from Taliban territory. That was the winter of ’08,” he said.
— New York Post, 8/26/21

Meanwhile…

An Afghan interpreter who helped rescue then Senator Joe Biden and two other senators in a valley in Afghanistan is stranded in the country under Taliban rule pleading to be rescued on Tuesday.

“Hello Mr. President: Save me and my family. Don’t forget me here”, the Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying.

Mohammed’s (who asked not to use his full name) visa application became stuck after the defense contractor he worked for lost the records he needed for his application. The Afghan interpreter tried to join the thousands of people who swarmed Kabul airport in an effort to get on one of the evacuation flights out of the country, but he was “rebuffed by US forces.” He says he could get in but US forces would not allow him to take his wife and four children with him.
— Al Arabiya English, 8/31/21

Obviously some people are more deserving and entitled to rescue than others and it must’ve been a relief to Joe Biden as it’s doubtful “strongly-worded” letters from the State Department would have been of any meaningful assistance when HE needed it.

With that, a health amount of skepticism should be directed at the latest allegation of racism, this time directed at Michigan House Representative Cynthia A. Johnson who took her complaints on the customary liberal media sympathy tour.

Note to Rep. Johnson: the next time you go on national news and make yourself out to be the next civil rights champion, have a change of clothes before issuing threats of violence to those you oppose politically.

Optics….

Not to say that it’s never occurred because people are people, but I’ve never experienced racism from Republicans and/or conservatives. But it will also be interesting to see how many of those who supposedly sent those racist communiques are actually apprehended. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer claimed to have been a potential kidnap victim but I don’t recall any follow-up as far as law enforcement interventions as a result.

Could this be yet another hate hoax from someone who desires affirmation or maybe trying to misdirect attention from something politically inconvenient?

State Rep. Cynthia Johnson and Chinese Consul General Zhao Jian had a friendly game earlier this month at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center during an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and China. The upbeat event was in contrast to the high-profile trade war between Washington and Beijing. To encourage Beijing to reform its trade practices, the Trump administration has imposed import taxes on billions of dollars worth of Chinese imports. China has retaliated.

Those working to grow deeper ties between China and Michigan offered thoughts on the tensions and their impact.
— Detroit Free Press, 9/21/19

Many Americans have justified suspicions regarding Communist China and may look at the cozy relationship between Rep. Johnson and Chinese interests as traitorous. Traitors used to be hung from the “gallows” back in the day and any subsequent references to “lynching”, IF they happened at all, should be looked at in proper context.

But it appears enough became enough.

Republican leaders of the Michigan House of Representatives have removed Rep. Cynthia Johnson, D-Detroit, from her committee assignments in response to a video she posted Sunday on Facebook. At the end of a roughly three-minute video posted Tuesday evening to Facebook, Johnson referenced law enforcement tracking down someone who made a threat against her before issuing what she called a warning.

“Threats to either Democrats or Republicans are unacceptable and un-American. They’re even more unbecoming of an elected official. Rep. Johnson has been removed from her committee assignments, and we are looking into further disciplinary action as the proper authorities conduct their own investigations,” Chatfield and Wentworth said in the joint statement.
— Detroit Free Press, 12/9/20

While racist anything is improper, such comments are protected First Amendment-protected speech. Threats are another thing. We’ll see if there are law enforcement ramifications for the callers or if this just fades away like those supposed death threats against the Michigan governor have.

Now, some people are up on the problem….

The Defense Department is banning the use of a popular videoconferencing application for official business due to questions about its security, a Pentagon spokesman told a military news site.

Zoom is no longer an option for teleconferencing sessions involving service members and DOD civilians, according to a Monday report in Military.com. The site attributed the statement to Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Carver.
— Stars & Stripes, 4/14/20

If that’s the case, an explanation is in order as of what transpired on… May 4, 2020!

It’s not news that there are serious security issues with Zoom and why our federal government is still using their platform and giving China hours of American government correspondence is baffling.

Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely understood as the most private form of internet communication, protecting conversations from all outside parties. In fact, Zoom is using its own definition of the term, one that lets Zoom itself access unencrypted video and audio from meetings.
— The Intercept, 3/31/20

Zoom has faced a barrage of headlines this week over its security policies and privacy practices, as hundreds of millions forced to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic still need to communicate with each other.

The latest findings landed earlier today when Citizen Lab researchers said that some calls made in North America were routed through China — as were the encryption keys used to secure those calls. But as was noted this week, Zoom isn’t end-to-end encrypted at all, despite the company’s earlier claims, meaning that Zoom controls the encryption keys and can therefore access the contents of its customers’ calls.
— TechCrunch, 4/3/20

Forbes revealed U.S. agencies handling the coronavirus response had spent a collective $1.3 million on Zoom tech in just a few days at the end of March. Not only had the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spent hundreds of thousands on Zoom for COVID-19-related webinars and calls, but other government agencies had bought into the tech, too. That included the State Department and one organization that was the alleged victim of a major Chinese hack, the Office of Personnel Management, in a breach that saw the private data of 21 million Americans leak. The U.K. government is also a well-known user of the tool, hosting critical cabinet meetings over Zoom.
— Forbes, 4/3/20

Foreign intelligence agents are using online platforms and videoconferencing apps to spy on Americans, TIME reported, citing several US intelligence officials. Chinese spies, in particular, have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to get information about American companies as they take their operations digital and offices across the US shut down amid stay-at-home orders.

The video conferencing app Zoom has proven particularly susceptible to cyber intrusions because of its popularity — Zoom’s CEO said the number of people using the app jumped from 10 million in December to 200 million in March — and lack of encryption.
— Business Insider, 4/9/20

And with regards to the Department of Defense…?

The Department of Defense has issued new guidance on the use of the popular videoconferencing application Zoom following a week-old FBI warning about security issues and a VOA report Thursday that military and government employees had continued to use the app. In an email to VOA on Friday, a Pentagon spokesman said, “DOD users may not host meetings using Zoom’s free or commercial offerings.”

The spokesman said the new guidance permits use of Zoom for Government, a paid tier service that is hosted in a separate cloud authorized by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, when videoconferencing about “publicly releasable DOD information not categorized as ‘For Official Use Only.’ ”

It was unclear, however, how many government employees have differentiated between the two services to date.

“Just because senior leadership enacts a policy does not automatically mean that everyone in every corner of an organization immediately gets the word,” a defense official said.
— Voice of America, 4/10/20

It remains unclear why any federal agency, given all the red flags issued, is STILL using Zoom.

Just because a teenage daughter uses today’s “it”, doesn’t mean discussions between government officials and employees should be using what is clearly a treasure trove of internal discussions that can be parked away in Chinese servers for future reference.

When live “comedy” television shows are produced, especially in front of a live television audience, those in attendance don’t always get the joke or the punchlines unfortunately fall flat. But not to worry. B-roll shots of the audience cracking up and audio laugh tracks can be easily edited-in to make the host and, in the case of a show like HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”, selected panelists look like all are in full uproarious agreement. Conversely, audio groans and boos can also be added in post production to make those chosen look real bad.

The Coronavirus has taken that audience support dynamic totally out of the mix so someone like Bill Maher now has to enter his own forum without the benefit of post-production cosmetics. When he interviewed Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a former United States Navy SEAL officer, Maher showed the nation just how flatfooted he really was when only armed with liberal talking points and no like-minded panelists and studio audience to laugh on cue.

After this episodic, you know Bill Maher is secretly hoping for the #LockDown to end so things can go back to normal, and in the case of “Real Time”, loaded in his favor.

Here’s the reality. By most traditional measures, the economy is stronger than it’s been in over three decades, especially where job creation is concerned. Trump’s policy of tax relief and deregulation—the president likes to brag his administration has eliminated more than a dozen regulations for each new one it has imposed—has led to the creation of the three most important things in U.S. politics: jobs, jobs and more jobs.

Even if some are better off than others, most everyone is better off now than they were four years ago.
— Newsweek, 1/29/20

The Coronavirus essentially wiped that all out within a month. The very historic low employment numbers the media were hesitant to report prior to the economic shutdown are now being repeated hourly with partisan glee.

NBC News: Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32 precent, Fed estimates

The stock market, jobs, Constitutional freedoms, toilet paper, common sense, all dashed and the timing couldn’t have been better for Democrats. They have a near-senile presidential frontrunner facing numerous sexual assault accusations who’s always a gaffe away from daily mockery. Their Russia-collusion and Trump impeachment attempts landed with a loud thoom and because of their Election 2020 desperation, the pandemic became a crisis too good to waste.

Donald Trump has been fighting against the hostile liberal media and #DeepState coup d’etat since his candidacy, through his transition and administration. Isn’t it convenient that both the media and insubordinate government employees are the two most destructive entities and are virtually untouched monetarily? While millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are awaiting government assistance, the media and government workers still get paid whether they show up in the office or work from home.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

From the onset of the COVID-19 “pandemic”, we were given hellacious predictions (based on conveniently fluctuating garbage-in-garbage-out “models”) of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of American deaths.

The Intercept: 2.2 Million People in the U.S. Could Die If Coronavirus Goes Unchecked
NY Times: Coronavirus May Kill 100,000 to 240,000 in U.S. Despite Actions, Officials Say
NPR: Fauci Estimates That 100,000 To 200,000 Americans Could Die From The Coronavirus
Associated Press: The Latest: WHO director warns ‘millions could die’
Business Insider: More than a dozen researchers predicted how the US’s coronavirus outbreak will end. They estimated nearly 200,000 people could die by the end of the year.
CNBC: The coronavirus could kill millions of Americans: ‘Do the math,’ immunization specialist says
Common Dreams: ‘Terrifying’ New Research Warns 2.2 Million Could Die From Coronavirus in US Without Drastic Action

Hold up. Time for another downward revision….

The Hill: Fauci: US death toll ‘looks more like 60,000’ than 100-200K estimate

Scary shit, to be sure. But like most things we’re told by Democrat pundits via the media that turn out to be incorrect, the retractions and/or apologies never meet the same decibel level as their initial shouts from the mountain tops.

New American: 86% of New Yorkers Who Died With Chinese Virus Had Other Illnesses, Conditions
NY Times: The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients.

If the Coronavirus was treated as another kind of flu and no big deal was made of it, would it have had the same effect on the our way of life? For example, it turns out thousands of Chinese flew in and out of San Francisco and Los Angeles during the ramp up of the current pandemic, yet California is nowhere near a “hotspot” despite having USA’s highest population of near 40 million people.

One theory has been consistently attacked by the media, health and government officials.

The theory of “herd immunity”.

If the virus keeps spreading, eventually so many people will have been infected and (if they survive) become immune that the outbreak will fizzle out on its own as the germ finds it harder and harder to find a susceptible host. This phenomenon is known as herd immunity.
— MIT Technology Review, 3/17/20

It could be argued had this particular Coronavirus wasn’t hyped to the point of essentially shutting down the nation, it may have come and went and few would have noticed. Yes, to date over 16,000 are of COVID-19 attributed death but that number is much lower than annual influenza deaths today’s Coronavirus opportunists routinely blew off.

We’ve seen how the Democrats and their cohorts in the media and government have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have rejected and summarily demonized hydroxychloroquine: a possible remedy mentioned by President Trump that’s had consistent success stories worldwide.

“Sixty-five percent of physicians across the United States said they would prescribe the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent COVID-19 in a family member,” the survey, which questioned 1,271 doctors in 50 states, found. “Only 11 percent said they would not use the drug at all.”
— Townhall, 4/9/20

Who ya gonna believe: your doctor or Brian Stelter?

For some strange reason, when politicians and the well-connected catch the virus, they take hydroxychloroquine, get better and give credit where credit is due.

State Rep. Karen Whitsett (D-Detroit) found out she had tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) the day her friend and House colleague died from it. Her health was deteriorating fast and she prevailed upon her doctor to get hydroxychloroquine for her.

“I thank God the president of the United States mentioned that drug because it did save me,” Whitsett said.
— Click on Detroit, 4/7/20

We’ve had governors, mayors and local officials (exhibiting the very dictator-like behavior President Trump is accused of) ordering the shutdown of select gathering places, businesses, travel, education, elections, boldly limiting freedom of movement of their citizens, while using their infinite wisdom in decide what is “essential”. They justify their authoritarian acts that temporarily suspends the United States Constitution… for “public safety” reasons.

Then again, if you’re a friend or relative of a politician or member of the privileged elite, those rules become optional which again brings into question the true seriousness of this “pandemic”.

#PLANDEMIC?

We also have politicians, government officials and medical professionals suggesting we should keep that “social distancing” practice for (depending on whom you hear) a few months to a year and a half. While the stock market is attempting to show some signs of life, attempts are still being made to keep a foot on the neck of the economy until the presidential election.

There are a lot of players who still stand to benefit from the economic paralysis of the United States.

Joe Biden and Democrats are obvious but the Chinese government is the other major potential beneficiary. President Trump revision of trade “deal” has not only had a leveling of the playing field effect but has also exposed President Xi Jinping as weak against the United States. Admitting responsibility for the virus release, thus exposing China to a world of liability would be political suicide. Keeping the United States and President Trump occupied shows the similar interests Chinese and Democrats have and could have no problem working unofficially in concert.

While the American people have been instructed not to use the Coronavirus pandemic as an excuse for political opportunism, the political class once again exempted themselves.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn reportedly described the coronavirus relief package currently being debated in Congress as a “tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” the South Carolina Democrat allegedly said on a phone call with fellow members of his party last week.
— Washington Examiner, 3/24/20

While the Wuhan virus was not created in the United States, it has been successfully weaponized by Democrats and their media to destroy the American economy while their livelihoods were assured. Aside from the inconvenience of movement limitations, they’re fine.

Donald Trump has been punished, Americans who voted for him and those who were considering voting for him in November have been warned. The historic economy has been left in splinters and Democrats believe they can now do anything they want despite not being totally in power. This has gone from a pandemic to a plandemic.

We’ve yet to see just how far the Democrats will go to implement it.

Give ’em an inch and they think they’re rulers

It didn’t take long for us to find out just how much power the elected believe they have over us all.

There’s nothing like a crisis to bring clarity. The response of some mayors and governors to the coronavirus pandemic in recent days has made it clear they think they have unlimited and arbitrary power over their fellow citizens, that they can order them to do or not do just about anything under the guise of protecting public health.

We’ve now witnessed local and state governments issue decrees about what people can and cannot buy in stores, arrest parents playing with their children in public parks, yank people off public buses at random, remove basketball rims along with private property, ticket churchgoers, and in one case try—and fail—to chase down a lone runner on an empty beach. All of this, we’re told, is for our own good.
— The Federalist, 4/13/20

As in many cases, the truth will eventually come out and we’ll see if all of this was indeed warranted. Comfortable politicians and elitists have no problem if those under them suffer as long as what they see as a “greater good” is accomplished. So, if the little people lose Constitutional freedoms, if not a few lives here and there… well, shit happens.

Those standards became increasingly relaxed when we started seeing products labeled “Made in China”. Everything from kitchen items to pharmaceuticals to pet food started appearing with that label and the results to public satisfaction and safety became questioned. For the most part, we lived with and accepted the price for buying cheap and “cheap” became synonymous with anything coming from China and we accepted the risk.

But that all should now be rightfully reexamined. Given their latest COVID-19, Wuhan virus export, we now have a greater appreciation for the perils of accepting anything from a nation that clearly means us economic and strategic harm, and the means to carry it out.

What extraordinary means can be used to “clear the field” of the United States? Conventional weapons such as airplanes, cannons, warships, and high-destructive weapons such as nuclear weapons will not work. We will not be so stupid as to use nuclear weapons to end up with the United States, although we yell for the Taiwan issue at all costs. Only non-destructive weapons of mass destruction can keep the United States intact. The development of modern biotechnology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and new biological weapons are emerging one after another. Of course, we have not been idle. Over the past few years, we have seized the time to master this type of killer, and we have been able to achieve the goal of “clearing the United States” suddenly.
— Chi Haotian, Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Minister of National Defense (1993-2003)

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we have a Wuhan virus as it appears to have only been a matter of when.

Before the September 11, 2001 attack, our politicians claimed to know Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he had to be removed before he had a chance to use them. After the attack, Hussein was removed as it had to have been determined he didn’t have the means to deliver a nuclear, biological or chemical attack on the United States mainland. After the release of COVID-19 on the world, China has the luxury of knowing there will be no direct military retaliation precisely because they have the means to deliver biological and nuclear attacks in return.

So, what is our recourse?

President Trump’s long-overdue leveling of the US-China playing field may have backed them into a financial corner. Tensions over disputed islands as well as our support for Taiwan may also have added to China’s belligerent posture, but as we know (especially when it comes to their years of documented intellectual property theft) China cannot be trusted to be straight up when it comes to anything.

China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.
— Bloomberg, 4/1/20

Future diplomacy will be delicate but there are things the American people should do.

For starters, avoid anything and everything with a “Made in China” label like the plague. (Chinese food restaurants excluded for obvious reasons….)

We will not buy anything with that disclaimer because what the communist government of China has done to the world should not go rewarded, unpunished or forgotten.

Depending on a friendly CNN to not air inconvenient clips, as they would probably have at the ready if they were interviewing a Republican criticizing a Democrat, Pelosi failed to mention her politically correct denials early on as well as statements made by others in her party….

When the president declared a travel ban, specifically to those coming from the China coronavirus epicenter, he was called a hysterical xenophobe by Democrats all the way up to their presidential candidate. Speaker Pelosi herself went to the Chinese enclave in San Francisco, blowing off suggested precautions like “social distancing”, to prove her sensitivity and embarrass those whose logical decisions may have saved more lives than she’ll ever admit.

To be fair, Pelosi was not alone. She just joined the Democrat pile-on and while she publicly praises Trump coronavirus task force advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci as a scientific level-head, he doesn’t always agree with her assertions.

Dr. Fauci: Trump China Restrictions Slowed Spread of the Wuhan Flu

If we actually had a media whose job it was to fact-check ALL and not just the president, Democrats may have shown responsible restraint in making reckless statements. But politically correct leftists had their backs.

Democracy Now!: The racist U.S. response to coronavirus “has nothing to do with the epidemic”
PolitiFact: Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic.
The Nation: Republican Xenophobia Is Going to Make the Pandemic Much Worse

If this really is a time to shelf politics, then it should start at the top. If politics is going to be played, then those in the game should be ready to defend their words and actions to the media and the American people.

Then again, one out of two ain’t bad.

“We have updated our economic forecast and now project the U.S. economy to enter a sharp, albeit short-lived recession,” the economists said in a note.
— “Wells Fargo economists”, 3/16/20

The Coronavirus has also provided the usual partisans the self-perceived cover to say what’s really on their minds.

More Republicans than Democrats will die from coronavirus
Coronavirus is Exposing Trump’s ‘Strong Economy’ For the Hoax It Is
Trump economic team grasps for credibility with outbreak
Recession Clouds On Trump’s Horizon
Our Worst Crisis Since 2008… and We Have an Idiot at the Helm
Trump’s economy is collapsing and he may be powerless to stop it: financial analyst
MSNBC panel says coronavirus could end Trump administration

So, who really could benefit from the current state of affairs?

CHINA

China (COVID-19 ground zero) is not a friend of the United States. Especially after having to swallow President Trump’s trade deal meant to end the decades of one-sided negotiations by fat-and-comfortable diplomats at the expense of the American consumer and our intellectual property.

Trump used tariffs as a negotiating tactic, meant to hurt China’s economy and pressure Beijing to agree to a new trade deal that addresses unfair trade practices, such as intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. That’s a goal that business leaders across the country, as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree on.
— CNN, 1/14/20

China has suffered as a result of a more even playing field and a suspicious timing of unleashing of a bioweapon gives any reasonable person food for thought. Like clockwork, our liberal media is using their standard operating procedure to provide cover for any who oppose President Trump and Coronavirus is another such opportunity.

Although far-left outlets like CNN have been describing the coronavirus as “Wuhan” for weeks, that description is now being described as racist by members of the left-wing media.
— Breitbart, 3/9/20

China is known to be a pirater of things they couldn’t initially think up but with Coronavirus under their belt, they aim to be the ones to fix what they broke.

Now, several Chinese government agencies and officials are talking publicly about how China can take advantage of being the first country to start recovering from the novel coronavirus (because it was the first country to contract it) to take over the industries of the future.
— Washington Post, 3/16/20

Let’s hope they don’t make matters worse with the same efficient incompetence.

RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA…

Have you noticed a peculiar silence when it comes to any and all things Coronavirus coming out of Russia? Then again, the tie between Russia and another American presidential election is out there for the stubbornly stupid.

At stake is what kind of election interference we should expect as November is coming: a lackluster rerun of leaking and trolling and fake social media activity, which would most likely be harder to do and less effective than in 2016 — or more pernicious operational innovation and escalation, perhaps even tactics that take advantage of the coronavirus outbreak.
— NY Times, 3/16/20

But back to matters at hand….

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THE ONGOING DEEP STATE COUP

For over four years, Democrats and their media have thrown the kitchen sink at candidate, now President Trump. They spied on his campaign, entrapped those in his campaign, transition team, and administration. The media has been rather coordinated in their opposition to his Administration, compared to how they fawned over their previous deity. Trump has been constantly investigated and cleared, impeached and cleared, and they appear to now enjoy a virus evolution he can’t easily provide a winning “uncharted territory” strategy to redress.

Democrats know they have a 2020 “next-in-line” version of Bob Dole on their hands going into the presidential election. The Coronavirus has not only ground their nomination process to a halt but is now affecting President Trump’s ability to campaign and they’re lovin’ every minute of it.

All of a sudden, we live in a world without crowds. And for Trump, it’s an existential threat—as much a threat as a sinking economy or the virus itself. Because Trump doesn’t just love crowds. He needs them. He needs crowds because of their political utility. Needs them to mine “data gold.” Needs them to be rolling, roiling, visceral focus groups—listening to the ebbs and flows of their roars, serving them what they want, scrapping what they don’t, stoking support with a skilled evangelist’s call and response.
— Politico, 3/13/20

It’s not like Trump NEEDS a live concert to promote a hot album, but the optics of no rallies on the horizon has Democrats near-orgasmic and rightfully so… but what cost.

Let’s not believe all the posturing from Speaker Pelosi and others in and around Capitol Hill and on liberal “news” programs. This newfound concern for human life is laughable coming from a party that insisted on including abortion funding into the emergency virus package.

As stock markets plummet businesses, prepare for staff to work from home, and confirmed cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus continue to grow, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) announced that the House plans to vote on a bill Friday to address the inevitable hardships that will result from the pandemic. But discussions with Republican leadership for the multi-billion dollar aid package may have stalled on Thursday over funding for abortion.
— Mother Jones, 3/13/20

Democrats have always had a power-at-all-cost mentality and this is one of Rahm Emanuel’s crises too good to waste. But what should cause the most alarm is how many Americans Democrats are willing to sacrifice in order to try and win an election with a candidate who may not know where he is at any given time, what town he’s in, or even if a camera is live.

Unintended consequences could actually backfire on them.

Under a variety of possible scenarios that could arise as a result of a terrorist attack before or during an election, either the Congress or the states might pass legislation which would affect the timing of these elections. The suggestion has been made, however, that the Executive Branch might have some role in determining whether an election is to occur or whether it can be cancelled. While the Executive Branch does not currently have this power, it appears that Congress may be able to delegate this power to the Executive Branch by enacting a statute.
— Federation of American Scientists, 2004

Is there a scenario where the 2020 election could now be postponed over the Coronavirus? It could be a possibility depending where we are a few months from now. It could be a massive Democrat face saver on the presidential level and would preserve the Democrat House majority at a time where they’ve become increasingly vulnerable.

More Americans approve of the job congressional Republicans are doing than of congressional Democrats’ performance — 40% vs. 35%. The rating for Republicans in Congress has risen six percentage points since late October, before the impeachment of President Donald Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives. Over the same period, congressional Democrats’ approval rating has edged down three points and disapproval has climbed five points, from 57% to 62%.
— Gallup, 3/10/20

The Chinese are doing everything communists do best to control the true impact of their Wuhan virus from the world because, let’s face it; its creation and the ramification on the world could easily be justifiably considered as an act of war. Killing millions to maintain power and control is in their DNA. The Chinese government should have earned pariah status instead of being portrayed as the innocent bystander, now blaming everyone else for what was engineered within their fortified borders.

Official Communist Party publication Xinhua has published several articles questioning COVID-19’s provenance, and the state-run Global Times wrote, “As the U.S. COVID-19 situation becomes increasingly obscure, the Chinese public shares the suspicion raised by Zhao Lijian that the U.S. might be the source of the virus and that the U.S. is subject [to] questioning and is obliged to explain [its role to] the world.”

The undertaking is part of a broader campaign to deflect blame for the pandemic and China’s delay in taking action early in the emergence of the disease, which global experts say began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, potentially as early as November, and has infected more than 160,000 worldwide and killed nearly 6,000.

None of the numerous public figures and media outlets positing the alternative theories has provided evidence for their claims.
— CNBC, 3/15/20

Democrats have much to lose on Tuesday, November 3rd and the Coronavirus has proved them not only a fresh political club to hammer President Trump but an even greater opportunity for them to save their political class and allies a loss they would pay dearly for through 2024.

But what are a few thousand American deaths with all that at stake?