Posted on 01/30/2020 2:49:16 AM PST by Kaslin
I have always lived my life around a simple principle, “Don’t eat weird stuff.” And see? I was right. The Coronavirus ripping through the Wuhan region of Red China – and that has now spread here – may well have crossed over to our species because some people in China eat bats. Yeah, on purpose. How the hell did they ever get the idea that dining on Dracula birds was a good plan?
It doesn’t matter – what does is our response, and right now the Administration is behind the power curve. With attention fixed on the circle of self-abuse that is the impeachment, it’s difficult to get a grip on this extremely dangerous situation. But the White House must do so, and fast.
I am not qualified to talk in detail about the proper strategies and tactics of responding to the virus’s spread into our country – I did nuclear, chemical, and biological stuff in the Army, but this is outside my skill set. Luckily, we have scientists who know how. What I do know is a little bit about communicating and leading, and a lot about disaster response, including commanding in the midst of civil crises. And the Administration risks dropping the ball.
This could be Trump’s Katrina, as Hugh Hewitt, who was way ahead of everyone else in the media on this potential nightmare, has pointed out. Understand this, and you probably don’t know because our media is garbage and most media people know nothing, but the federal disaster response to Katrina was amazing. Huge numbers of personnel and vast quantities of supplies poured into the stricken area in an incredibly short time. The incompetence came from – shocker – the Democrat leadership locally, but the media hung it around George W. Bush’s gentlemanly neck. And because he was too gentlemanly to cry “Bull Schiff!,” most everyone thinks what was a logistical miracle was a clusterfark.
The media is aching, yearning, begging for the chance to do the same thing to Trump.
And the stage is being set to do that. China is going nuts. The numbers of cases coming into the U.S. are growing. People are confused. The stock market is pitching and heaving. And the impeachment circus is going to end with the Democrats’ humiliation soon, meaning suddenly the media will soon need a new shiny object to chase.
Coronavirus is that shiny object. The media will not be honest or accurate or fair. It will lie, cheat, and give voice to leftist leakers with agendas. That’s why Trump needs to go around the media, straight to us.
Trump needs to go on the air, to the American people, and lay out the situation. Then Team Trump needs to step up the game by arm-twisting the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) into talking to us, at length, in detail. Get those science nerds in their lab coats out there, in front of the camera, every day, bombarding us with info. Talk our ears off.
The current lack of information is an invitation for the void to be filled with nonsense and lies designed to undermine the presidency – sadly, the media cares nothing about the infection risk and everything about its weird obsession with undoing the 2016 election. There is already a plan – the CDC is on this – but that plan has not been communicated to the people. The people are worried – they’ll be very, very worried when the media pumps up the threat.
If the president assures the citizenry that he understands this is a priority and that he is vectoring in America’s best scientists to respond, that not only foils the cheesy partisan political attack that is coming. It helps the actual defeat of this potential epidemic. Instead of inspiring panic, the presentation of the Administration as having this crisis well in hand will serve to calm fears as well as tell people what to do.
Do you know what you should do? I’m not sure I do. And the information has been so sketchy that right now most of us don’t know the Coronavirus from the Dos Equis virus, the most interesting flu in the world.
Pummel the people with information. Make those eggheads do briefings every day. Get a soothing one who can communicate to be the face of the CDC. And Hugh Hewitt has another good point – no one is telling us how the disease got here, what flights, what airports. Get that out there. People want to know if a carrier was in their mall or school or whatever. And explain why the hell you can still gobble a bat, jump on a plane, and fly to America? Why haven’t we limited or banned flights? Are we screening passengers? How? We need to know.
Trust us with the information and we will trust the Administration.
This is not just a public health crisis – it’s a political fight too. Sorry, but that’s the truth, and Trump is under no obligation to allow himself to be lied about as W. was. Luckily, though, Trump is a master communicator – plus, he’ll fight back.
And stop eating bats, people.
I sent it to Contact the Whitehouse.
For those who only read headlines:
“Understand this, and you probably don’t know because our media is garbage and most media people know nothing, but the federal disaster response to Katrina was amazing. Huge numbers of personnel and vast quantities of supplies poured into the stricken area in an incredibly short time. The incompetence came from – shocker – the Democrat leadership locally, but the media hung it around George W. Bush’s gentlemanly neck. And because he was too gentlemanly to cry “Bull Schiff!,” most everyone thinks what was a logistical miracle was a clusterfark. “
Seal the borders. Only Americans can enter after decontamination process.
A plane landed yesterday with over 200 American passengers from China in California. It was the last plane out. Many people are still stuck in China because Airlines refuse to fly into China
Delta is still doing some flights.
But what about foreign airline companies that go back and forth from China and the US?
I have not that discussed.
Agreed!
I think Kurt’s right. It would be a good idea for the administration to get ahead of this by having Trump give a short nationwide address about how this is being taken seriously and announce some travel restrictions on anyone coming from the affected areas of China until the crisis is over.
That way it will be tough for the MSM to try to blame him for anything though obviously, they’ll try.
The coronavirus is a flu virus. The regular flu has killed 8,000 people this last year and yet there has been no mass hysteria about it.
Granted, this new flu is going to make people sick and kill people but many things in our lives already do the same thing and we don't hype them like the media is hyping this new virus.
The media contributes to this hysteria and now, as expected, we see President Trump is trying to be blamed for something coming out of China.
Anthony Fauci was just on and says there are no secondary cases from the 5 cases in the US. They are all isolated to keep it that way.
You might consider applying to be a headline writer for the fake news media frenzy whip machine:
POLITICO: “Trump has so far dodged becoming the face of coronavirus crisis”
USA Today: “Joe Biden: Trump is worst possible leader to deal with coronavirus outbreak.”
CNN: “Coronavirus will test Trump administration’s ability to handle a crisis”
NBC Nooze: “Coronavirus threat needs a national emergency response. Trump’s putting our’s at risk.”
And on and on ...
But such headlines as this one:
“Trump: Administration communicating with China, ‘strongly on watch’ over coronavirus.
Or this one:
“Trump administration expands screening for coronavirus to 20 US airports”
will be consigned to the backpages.
Yep, we all need to be whipped into a frenzy by our ‘friends’ in the media and charge the White House behind that brave Beltway warrior General Schlicter.
Every disaster has been billed as Trump’s Katrina. That ploy only works with Presidents who have been willing to play Judy to the demagogue’s Punch. How politically incorrect is that analogy?
I have a friend who works for FEMA in DC. He was part of the Puerto Rico efforts.
The bottom line: FEMA does not do your disaster planning....they are there to help supplement whatever disaster plans you have.
The problem with New Orleans and Puerto Rico is that they did not have proper disaster plans (that costs money that could go into politicians’ pockets).
So, those places were totally unprepared for a disaster. FEMA could not do it for them, but took the blame because our media and Democrats are disgusting LIARS.
And explain why the hell you can still gobble a bat, jump on a plane, and fly to America?
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Is the writer saying we should station cuisine monitors in foreign countries and put Wrong Eaters on a No Fly List that extends to foreign airlines.
Has this guy been eating LSD?
Unfortunately I read it.
Worthless.
Devoid of anything useful.
Self-promoting.
Perhaps you will be more selective with what you post in the future and forego Beltway blabbery embedded hysteria.
The Misinformation Media will do what they can with the situation. Expect to see pieces on the great pandemics of history, especially the Spanish Flu. They'll try to whip up as much fear as possible and blame the problem on our President.
While the destruction from Katrina was confined to a particular section of our country, the invisible threat of Corona virus is potentially nationwide.
At this point we do not know how many people in the U.S. are infected with the virus. People may be infected and contagious but asymptomatic. Chinese media is reporting 170 people have died from the virus so far. One thing we’re sure of, strong border security would help control the spread of the virus to the U.S. Hat tip to Donald Trump!
stupid headline, idiot
Follow who? I opened a thread, saw it was worthless, looked at the author’s name, commented that I don’t/won’t follow the author’s Beltway screech, etc.
What are you asking again?
Never mind.
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