Posted on 04/18/2020 8:56:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Seven weeks ago, on March 1st, I republished a seventeen-year-old column of mine from the SARS outbreak:
The appearance of the virus itself was a surprise but everything since has been, to some extent, predictable. Because totalitarian regimes lie, China denied there was any problem for three months, and thereafter downplayed the extent of it. Because UN agencies are unduly deferential to dictatorships, the World Health Organization accepted Beijing's lies. This enabled SARS to wiggle free of China's borders before anyone knew about it. I mentioned all this three weeks ago, but only in the last couple of days has the People's Republic decided to come clean -- or, at any rate, marginally less unclean -- about what's going on.
Replace the word "SARS" with "Covid-19" and that's exactly what happened here. It is profoundly depressing - on CNN, the BBC, CBC, etc - to hear the credibility their reporters still give to ChiCom/WHO propaganda.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me thrice? Death on me.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Great history/reality OPed by Steyn!
The reporters are ideologically aligned with China.
They admire the Chinese government.
Many gain significant financial advantage from China.
The fooling is all of the reader.
I am pretty sure Mark Steyn understands this. He is, somewhat subtly, pointing it out to his readers, without directly accusing the reporters of being tools of the Chinese.
Take me right back to the track, Jack.
I was thinking of Mr. Jordan’s song “Run, Joe”, police holding de doh, a couple of weeks ago, in regard to the current Democratic nominee, when I found this bizarre cover version.
Brace yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lALEmcUl4
Maya Angelou, yes, THAT Maya Angelou, in Calypso Heatwave 1957
Kinda reminds me of Commander Cody And The Lost Planet Airmen.
gets my fingers and feet a-tappin’
Maragaritaville FB only. https://www.facebook.com/tonyshipley/videos/10216508530450642/
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