... be a shame if this kind of thing went viral and was forwarded
Posted on 03/17/2020 9:15:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Political correctness is not just harmless virtue-signaling navel-gazing by a bored “elite” first-world populace. It is both a weapon and a disease that kills.
On January 31, on a day when the entire national press corps was fully focused on unserious impeachment theater, President Trump declared a national health emergency and implemented a travel ban to and from China.
Apparently unhappy that Trump wasn’t curled up in the fetal position, all the usual suspects on the left screamed bloody murder, convinced he was trying to distract from their important issue. Only a couple countries followed suit, since most were afraid they would be labeled as xenophobic or branded with the dreaded scarlet R.
Joe Biden called it “hysterical xenophobia.” He’s still thundering about Trump’s xenophobic bans during his occasional lucid moments.
Yet, this single action bought incredibly precious time, perhaps the most valuable commodity when trying to defend citizens from this virus.
It is the reason we aren’t already like Italy or Spain, societies that have been wrecked. It gave us time to observe and study the disease and to implement the best defensive measures. It drove home the critical importance of social distancing as the single most important step in slowing its spread.
It also bought time to overcome our bloated and ineffective bureaucracy while marshalling private industry.
Quite simply, putting American lives first while shrugging off political correctness saved many lives, the number of which we will never truly know.
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Kung Flu
Will we ever get over this affliction? What will it take to kill, once and all? It is debilitating!
I am talking about political correctness.
no no no, i won’t call it Wuhan, Chinese Pneumonia,
i want to die knowing i’m not a racist... /s
CHINESE FLU
I wish he’d quarantined travelers from Italy on arrival a week or ten days earlier, and maybe even all of Europe. It was clearly getting out of hand there, and there was no uniform screening in place at our airports, let alone quarantining.
I like the way he’s handling things now, but his early victory laps about how the China quarantine protected the US were premature, because while it was correct, it wasn’t followed up in a timely fashion as the epidemic shifted to the West.
LOL!
“I am talking about political correctness.”
It will never go away. It is a potent tool for the left. The only way to contain it is to regain control of our culture. If rational people were in charge at schools and in the entertainment industry, we could teach young minds exactly how insidious PC is.
Our local medical community believes this virus has been here locally in North Alabama since the beginning of December, they just didn’t know what it was. Pretty sure my oldest son had it. Had flu symptoms, but tested negative for flu virus suspects.
Fine. I will call it the slant eye virus.
Orwell wrote extensively about controlling culture by controlling thought and controlling thought by controlling language. It is a lesson the left has embraced. Language police are culture police.
I remember the first conference and when he appointed our great vice president as the pointman and that was February 3
“it wasn’t followed up in a timely fashion as the epidemic shifted to the West.”
By chance, do you know anyone that has a CONFIRMED case of Wu-Flu???
Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Simone : Um, he’s sick. My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.
Anyone???
... be a shame if this kind of thing went viral and was forwarded
Yellow fever.
Given the extremely low numbers of confirmed cases, I'd say pretty much nobody knows anyone who's caught it.
Zipperhead virus has a nice ring to it.
CLOSE WALL STREET!!
To quote a line from the movie “Trading Places”
“Turn the machines back on!”
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