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.
Bat soup? More like bio created. The Huanan Bio lab is in the area where this first broke out. The corona virus was patented in 2015 and granted in 2018. A vaccine company owns the patent. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701
“Schlicter is right.”
What fries my butt is that flights are are being cancelled in TO China, yet Chinese people are flying IN to the US and waltzing through half-assed, 30-second-long, “medical screenings”. Then they disperse all over the country. What’s wrong with this picture?
I think Trump should have cancelled all inbound flights from China and nearby countries two weeks ago. Ridiculous.
> “The author’s name is Schlichter S c h l i c h t e r, not Schlicter. Notice the letter “h” after the letter “c”
About as valuable as what the author was squealing about.
> “If you don’t like Colonel Schlichter’s op-ed; this is what this is, then don’t read it.”
Gee, that’s exactly what was conveyed regarding Beltway Generalissimo Schlickster.
Flame away.
Useless thread.
Try this one on for size.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full
This virus goes after the ACE2 receptor, but especially in certain cells with highly expressed viral pathway related genes.
You know, like the joke about how a thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold -- "How does it *know*?"
But it gets better. (The only issue is a small sample size, 8 individuals).
They found that 2 male donors have a higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than all other 6 female donors (1.66% vs. 0.41% of all cells, P value=0.07) and that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells) --
{note that's too small a sample to assign a p-value}.
Long and short, this thing looks like it was made to cause ARD in Asian males.
Now look at the hospitalization rates (stable/serious/critical) and mortality, in China and out. The only other thing I can think of that would affect this is time of progression, and for that we'll have to wait a week or to and do longitudinal tracing of individuals, not averages over all infected by country.
So if in two weeks, we see this only takes out Asian / Chinese males, or predominantly so (remember the Toronto case, was it, they guy is a lot sicker than the wife?...
that spells bioengineering.
Question would become, did the West launch this?
Or did the Chinese spies take it, and the typically galactic class Chinese quality control and attention to detail kick in?
...or, did the elites in China order this released, because there are too d@mn many single older men, after the disastrous one-child-policy lead to a gross shortage of women?
...and if there are too many Sheng Nu or Third Sex (overeducated), culling off a lot of the Chinese Men is going to make it even *harder* on them.
Will the remaining Chinese women flee to the West to find American men who put women on a pedestal?
1. Swine flu
2. The Plague of Justinian
3. The Black Death
4. Smallpox
5. HIV/AIDs
6. Spanish flu
These are just a small part. Ordinary flu kills 20,000 Americans yearly.
Coronavirus???
Hurricane Katrina wasn’t President Bush’s fault, either. Fault has NOTHING to do with anything in politics. It’s whether you can get the press to hang a millstone around the opposition’s neck and throw him out of the boat. It’s all about optics.
President Trump is no George Bush. They wanted to make Hurricane Maria Trump’s Katrina too but he wouldn’t have it.
I think the president is doing exactly the right thing. At this time I don’t see major panic among the citizenry (in fact people are joking about it and creating memes) and I believe it’s because the leader of our nation is not running around like his hair is on fire. I trust him to respond at the right time when it is necessary and not allow blame to be assigned to him if not warranted.
Carry on. Unfortunately there are those who are so blind they just refuse to see. And instead of digging reading and synthesizing they just make fun and call names. So actually carry on I would rather be informed than stupid. You can’t fix stupid.
come on Kurt......... what a pile of crap
That’s Schlichter’s exact point. The impeachment is preoccupying the administration to some extent and not giving this sufficient attention. Then, when impeachment goes away and the press needs a new millstone to put around Trump’s neck, the next obvious thing is coronavirus.
Trump has dropped the ball here and big time.
There are well over a million Chinese flooding in here by now and
nothing is being done to stop it.
They will bankrupt our hospitals .
That was the Chinese plan to send there Chinese sick here to treat.
The Philippines have already cut off Chinese travel and so has Hong Kong .
Air Canada and British Air have stopped service.
Guess what now we have a Task Force . Great more DC Libs to do nothing in order to spread the blame .
Trump needs to stop this invasion today and not try to dodge the responsibility to some useless task force .
Trump has dropped the ball here and big time.
There are well over a million Chinese flooding in here by now and
nothing is being done to stop it.
They will bankrupt our hospitals .
That was the Chinese plan to send there Chinese sick here to treat.
The Philippines have already cut off Chinese travel and so has Hong Kong .
Air Canada and British Air have stopped service.
Guess what now we have a Task Force . Great more DC Libs to do nothing in order to spread the blame .
Trump needs to stop this invasion today and not try to dodge the responsibility to some useless task force .
Yes, Herr Schluckmeister is avoiding this background on this bioweapon of plague timed perfectly to make headlines in our fabulous faithful prestigious venerated vaunted news media.
The President said all will be ‘Ok’. Where did he hear that?
Can we speculate that since this is a known bioweapon patented in 2015 that our military bioresponse science units have a counter antidote to a known patented bioweapon?
As of today, 5 cases in the USA with zero deaths so far.
Trump’s inaction and its been inaction
could make it a Katrina event .
Go visit any major airport .
The Chinese are pouring in here .
That is not good news .
Yes, Herr Schluckmeister is avoiding this background on this bioweapon of plague timed perfectly to make headlines in our fabulous faithful prestigious venerated vaunted news media.
The President said all will be ‘Ok’. Where did he hear that?
Can we speculate that since this is a known bioweapon patented in 2015 that our military bioresponse science units have a counter antidote to a known patented bioweapon?
As of today, 5 cases in the USA with zero deaths so far.
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Since you have been somewhat of a naysayer oh, I challenge you to do the heavy lifting and dig and do the due diligence to find out what you can about any antidote. Hopefully it exists.
Instead of throwing Kurt and Kaslin and myself under the bus and others has tinfoil-hat where do a little heavy lifting instead of rock-throwing.
Goofy article by KS. I usually like his writings. Trump is working on it. Panic is not needed.
I betchya even if Trump banned flights from China(which he may do) some RAT would go to a strip mall RAT court and put a stop to it while calling Trump a racist.
His last 3 budgets increased funding to the CDC.
If anyone doubts where Bill Gates stands consider the fact that Valerie Jarrett is Iranian, Struck and Page are also in relation with Iranians, John Kerry’s family is also married to Arabic people, and now Bill Gates’ daughter is marrying an Egyptian. Now more than ever will the undermining of the United States continued by the left. For those in Rio Linda who don’t understand why I’m posting this read up a few posts and you’ll see that Bill Gates charity has the patent on this virus or one like it. There are no coincidences. If you don’t like tin foil and switch to Saran Wrap.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bill-gates-billionaire-daughter-engaged
Democrats are katrina.
Oh my! A challenge!
Well here’s something that should ease Schlickie’s morning Beltway bowel movement:
“President Trump Establishes Coronavirus Response Task Force”
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