By Lloyd Marcus, AMERICAN THINKER
A usually level-headed Christian conservative lashed out on Facebook, scolding everyone they thought was not taking the coronavirus seriously enough. Fake news media has successfully infected many with irrational fear.
Hearing Gov. Larry Hogan on my car radio announcing his executive order to close bars, restaurants, gyms, and theaters sounded like the script of a 1950s horror movie. “We will stop the spread of this deadly disease!” dramatically proclaimed Hogan. Litle more than 100 have died in the U.S. and under 9,000 worldwide. According to the CDC, during the 2018-2019 flu season, an estimated 16.5 million people got sick and 34,000 died in the U.S.
When Hogan mentioned plans to restrict church gatherings, a chill went up my spine. In the United States of America, government is mandating that people not attend church. Wow!
CDC data confirms that the martial-law-light mandates steamrolling across America are disproportionate to the threat of the virus. Some governors and most corporations are responding to media-mob pressure to halt life in America. Others see an opportunity to land a death-blow to the Trump administration.
Insidiously ignoring the CDC’s no-need-to-panic-data, fake news media created and is gleefully fueling corona-madness. Using their huge bully pulpit, fake news media says anyone who dares to contradict their you’re-all-gonna-die narrative will be dragged into the high tech public square, stripped naked, branded an irresponsible idiot with a hot iron and their career will be canceled.
It is disturbing that there is practically zero pushback against governors instantaneously overruling our constitutional freedoms. Sadly, many youths are clueless regarding their constitutional freedoms. They grew up in public schools where progressive teachers taught them that the Constitution is an outdated piece of paper written by racist, sexist, homophobic, and Christian dead straight white men.
We have far too many Bernie Bro youths who say, “If the government is going to give me free stuff, I am down with whatever controls government deem necessary.”
A gentleman said this about Democrats/fake news media in an email, “…they are willing to destroy hard working people’s jobs to accomplish their power play.” This guy is spot on correct. This is why I regard Democrats’/fake news medias’ gleeful spread of corona-madness so loathsome and evil.
Democrats and fake news media are 100% committed to destroying Trump, their greatest Nemesis. Collapsing the U.S. economy and even the loss of American lives is acceptable collateral damage in their quest for power to control every aspect of our lives. They believe corona is their highly sought-after kryptonite to kill We-the-Peoples’ superman president.
A wise woman emailed me, “I think a lot of people are willing to do social distancing, etc., but they’re unwilling to live in perpetual fear.” I say, “Amen, sister.”
How long can fake news media/Democrats successfully keep Americans at a fever pitch level of irrational panic and fear? How long will U.S. businesses allow media to bully them into losing billions of dollars simply because they hate Trump? How long will it take Americans to say screw this nonsense, “I’m going out for a burger and a beer?” I believe there will be a tipping point when Americans say enough is enough, I’m going to resume my life.
My baby boomer generation is still the largest demographic. We know our constitutional rights and will fight for them. We will not go gentle into Democrats’ snap-of-their-fingers repeal of our constitutional freedoms intended to collapse our economy.
The simple truth is the coronavirus has had very little effect, causing around 125 deaths nationwide. What has caused the unprecedented closing down of America is media-hype about the coronavirus. We are suffering the consequences of deranged Democrats and fake news media willing to sacrifice everything to stop a president from implementing his America-first agenda.
Democrats and fake news media view the coronavirus as blood in the water to create a feeding frenzy of criticism of Trump.
Remarkably, every crazy, illegal, and evil scheme to remove Trump from the White House has failed. So will corona-madness. Why? Because God put Trump into the White House and only God will take him out.
Two buddies of mine said the hysteria is causing seniors in nursing homes to be isolated from visits by their loved ones. But Democrats/fake news media do not care. All they ever care about is furthering their socialist, communist, and progressive agendas and damaging Trump. Thank God Trump caught and denied Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s sneaky attempt to hide abortion funding in Trump’s corona relief spending.
In response to a 50-degree temperature day after people who have been cooped up in their homes because of a brutally cold winter, people rush outside wearing t-shirts and flip-flops. I believe Americans will eventually respond the same way, becoming emotionally burnt out over corona-madness. This will spark a huge economic boom.
Folks, the light I see at the end of the corona-madness tunnel is the strong will, spirit, and instincts of the American people. Without analyzing their feelings through a lens of political ideology, Americans will begin demanding to have their lives back: work, weddings, kid’s birthday parties, restaurants, and so on. We are Americans!
Trump is the perfect man in office when that day comes. He will gladly say, “I am with you folks. Let’s get back to keeping America great!”
Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Tanna, you’re in La La Land, like Ted and the rest here. Auto accidents do not collapse the whole health care system in modern countries like Italy. If you are able, THINK.
@ Michael S:
Michael,
If you consider 160,000 dead in the whole world by May 6,2020 that’s not really a high number. In America about 34,000 people die each year in automobile accidents. Stop being a fear monger. God is in control.
@ Reader:
Reader,
First of all, remember that China probably has more Christians than any country in the world. They have to meet secretly, to a large degree, because of government persecution.
Secondly, the Chinese character is not one of blaming and scapegoating. I have known my son-in-law and his family for twenty years, and have not once heard them complain. He has gone through several complete business collapses during that time, losing his own home and those of his relatives, and having to let go 50 employees. His response to it all is, “If you encounter difficulties, you adapt.”
@ Michael S:
How is your family in China?
Why would they blame Christians?
@ Michael S:
“Marijuana sales ‘on fire’ as demand spikes amid coronavirus outbreak”
Cannabis users are one of the high risk groups during a coronavirus outbreak.
These people are setting themselves up for trouble.
Netanyahu: Under emergency regulations, Israeli citizens must stay home
Israel is trying to keep its hospital system from being overwhelmed which is what happened to Italy.
Rationally that is also what the USA trying to do.
Once the hospital system gets overwhelmed then people die who otherwise would not.
Italy listened to the Chinese and believed them that things with Coronavirus were not so bad and kept letting people travel from China. Iran did the same thing. Iran also after it stopped commercial flights from China kept up letting the military leaders go to China. That is why both in Italy and Iran so many people have been infected and died.
Hi, Reader
I’ve been watching the death totals, which currently are at around 10.000, double every 12 days.
March 19 10,000
March 31 20,000
April 12 40,000
April 24 80,000
May 6 160,000
After a while, to people like Marcus et al, I suppose they just become so many numbers… 300 thousand, 600 thousand, 1.2 million…
I wonder how many people will be blamed for this virus (and the next calamity, and the next…) before they settle on a particular person and people group. The dreamers on Israpundit think they will stop at the Chinese; but I know and you know what people will ultimately be blamed. I think it will be two: 1. Christians and 2. Jews.
Finally they will blame God, and they will have found the source — but too late.
Meanwhile, I get to watch the numbers rise to the moon. along with other statistics:
“Marijuana sales ‘on fire’ as demand spikes amid coronavirus outbreak”
— https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/17/marijuana-sales-on-fire-as-demand-spikes-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Then we can hope it will be over soon?
Well, the policy of mass surveillance using cell phones is in Israeli courts, right now.
Hungary has succesfully isolated the virus that causes Covid 19 and a Japanese company says it has the vaccine. It has been approved by China, though some experts are skeptical. Israeli and Canadian companies say they are on the verge.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-says-Japan-developed-drug-Avigan-works-against-coronavirus
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/03/18/hungary-announces-successful-isolation-of-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR3qpLNOZM_hhpIMR1X9dYCkw6iKjsmFFfdKeO1Xk4esaHfVJR1Ql0UZ0Ao#
Excuse me?
I thought it was President Trump who banned travel to and from China in January and declared National Emergency over coronavirus outbreak just recently.
Is he trying to play up to the evil Democrats and give up presidency?
Did the evil Democratic press fooled the Trump administration:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mnuchin-warns-gop-senators-of-20-percent-unemployment-if-stimulus-not-passed/
“Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Tuesday warned Republican senators that the nation could see 20 percent unemployment if an economic stimulus package is not passed to offset the effects of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
By comparison, in 2009 the Great Recession saw 10 percent unemployment at its height in the U.S., while in 1933 during the Great Depression unemployment hit 23 percent. However, the Treasury Department clarified that an economic stimulus would prevent unemployment from reaching such high levels.
Mnuchin “used some mathematical examples to illustrate potential risk if there were no intervention, but because they are doing the right things and proposing additional action, [20 unemployment] would not be the case,” a Treasury Department official told CNN.
The Trump administration is currently pushing for a $1 trillion stimulus package. The Treasury Secretary acknowledged the large price tag of the stimulus, but said it was justified given the circumstances of the economy.
“This is not like a normal economic situation,” Mnuchin said. “The government has requested that parts of this economy shut down.”
The stimulus package reportedly includes about $50 million for the airline industry, which Mnuchin described as experiencing a greater crisis than in the period after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as around $500 billion in relief to Americans through payroll tax cuts or direct cash payments.
“Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. And I mean now, in the next two weeks,” Mnuchin said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Several Republican senators, including Mitt Romney of Utah, Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, have expressed support for direct payments to Americans to help offset the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.”
I AM GETTING CONFUSED…