Category Archives: COVID-19
World Health Organization Kissing up to China
You may have heard that President Trump has credibility issues. Yesterday he called the WSJ fake news. The reason being that the editorial board suggested his briefings might benefit from a little more focus.
But he had a point on Tuesday when he ripped the World Health Organization for kissing up to China. Here’s Rich Lowry writing in Politico:
China committed unforgivable sins of commission, affirmatively lying about the outbreak and punishing doctors and disappearing journalists who told the truth, whereas the WHO committed sins of omission—it lacked independence and courage at a moment of great consequence.
In effect, China and the WHO worked together to expose the rest of the world to the virus, at the same time they downplayed its dangers
And, in mid-January, the World Health Organization claimed there was no proof of human to human transmission of the virus.
Race Against Time, Virus vs. Savings
It’s a race against time. Can the virus be spent before your savings?
701,000 American jobs were lost in March and the unemployment rate rose from 3.5% to 4.4% in one month according to the WSJ.
Meanwhile, The Guardian says about 35 companies are working on a vaccine and Moderna is about to begin human testing. And “many many‘ groups are working on immunity-giving antibody tests that provide results in minutes.
Trump Has Blood on His Hands Says Speaker Pelosi
Trump has blood on his hands. At least that’s the way Nancy Pelosi sees it.She told Jake Tapper on State of the Union that Trump “fiddled while people died.” She also wondered rhetorically, “What Trump knew and when did he know it?”
That caused the WSJ to remark on her ability to work Nero and Nixon references into the same interview.
Trump has blood on his hands
For his part, Trump declared a national emergency and imposed a travel ban on China on Jan. 31. Joe Biden called that move “Xenophobic.”
Jeffery Lord covers a timeline of impeachment and virus activity in The American Spectator. It’s titled The Impeachment That Killed Americans.
April Fools, We’re All Going Into Comas and Nobody Dies
My April Fools cartoon. We’re all going into medically induced comas. And that way, Nobody dies. Nobody dies.
Economy Not Sheltering in Place
The economy isn’t sheltering in place. It’s heading down. Fast.
Goldman Sachs forecasts 15% unemployment and a 34% decline in GDP in the second quarter. And the stock market just finished its worst quarter since 2008.
Goldman Sachs is still predicting a “V-shape” recovery, however, meaning the steep drop-off will lead to a bigger bounce of 19 percent in the third quarter.
The Hill
Economy Not Sheltering
The election is seven months away. Can Trump pull the economy out of its Corona nose dive by then?
Scott Brennan, an Iowa Democratic National Committee member and a former state party chairman, said, “If the economy pops back … it’s hard to know what people are going to think.”
Politico
