In New Jersey, the new epicenter of the Wuhan virus, there’s no end in sight to our “shelter at home” lock down,  but I’m pleased to note that we have completed our quarantine.  No, the Governor hasn’t released us from durance vile, but quarantine is over.  “Quarantine” derives from the Italian word “quaranta,” which means forty.  It dates back to the good old days in Europe, when plague after plague depopulated the countryside.  Originally, confinement was 30 days and therefore was called a trentino.  But politicians  then were much like politicians now, so they extended the confinements to 40 days.  Why?  Then, as now, no one can tell you.  If I had to guess, I’d blame the church.  There are too many references to 40 in the Bible for this to be a coincidence.  Noah was on the Ark 40 days.  Moses was on Mt. Sinai 40 days.  Jesus was in the wilderness 40 days, and was on Earth 40 days after the resurrection.  The Jerusalem Temple was destroyed 40 years after the crucifixion.  Muslims got in the act too; Muhammad was 40 years old when he received the revelation from the archangel Gabriel, a/k/a Jibril.  In New Jersey, we were locked up on March 21.  So quarantine ended April 30.  They told us just to stay home to flatten the curve, and we did that.  Hospitals did not get overwhelmed.  NY is closing the hospital in the Javits Center and sending the hospital ship away.  Trump sent them so many ventilators they finally told him to stop.  So that’s it, right?  We can come out now and survey the wreckage.  Not so fast!  The “experts” have other ideas.  Robert Redfield of the US Centers for Disease Control says we can’t reopen without scaled-up contact tracing and increased testing.  Contact tracing entails interviewing everyone diagnosed with Wuhan and finding other people who came in contact with them.  A former chief of the CDC says this will require an “army” of 300,000 contact tracers.  Johns Hopkins says we’ll need at least 265,000 to match the tracing done in Wuhan, China.  That’s probably a low number, considering that all they did in Wuhan was seal people in their apartments and wait for them to die.  This is not just a proposal.  Massachusetts already has budgeted $44 million to hire 1,000 tracers.  Now, it happens that about 40 million people are out of work, so we could hire a few hundred thousand new government employees.  Trump has his Space Force, so why not the Fauci Trace Force?  Of course, it will take some time to get Congress to fund it, write the regulations,  find and train the tracers.  People are itching to break out now, so I don’t think they’ll be willing to wait that long.  Let’s face it.  If the Trace Force already existed, who among us is willing to sit docilely at home waiting for a federal (or State) bureaucrat to do his job, and then for his supervisor, and then his supervisor, to approve it, and then for the Trace Force to send out the results?  I won’t.  But let’s pretend the Trace Force actually exists.  How would it do its job?  The Mayo Clinic says, once someone has been identified as infected, the Trace Force tries to track down others who have had recent prolonged exposure to that person when they may have been infectious.  That means being within 6 feet of the person for more than 10 minutes, or in a health care setting, for five minutes.  Piece of cake, right?  “Okay, you tested positive (UNCLEAN!), so now give me a list of every person you have come within 6 feet of since you were infected, keeping in mind that there is no way to know when you became infected.”  Easy.  But fret not.  You’re not expected to keep a running list of everyone who comes within 6 feet of you for an undetermined period of time, although some Governors are likely to order just that.  Never fear.  Technology to the rescue.  You don’t need to keep a list.  Your cellphone will rat you out.  Cellphones have several means of logging our activity.  GPS tracks our location, and Bluetooth exchanges signals with nearby devices.  So, the helpful experts tell us, if someone tests positive for Wuhan, health officials could obtain a record of that person’s cellphone activity and compare it with the data emitted by other phone owners.  If all this sounds like an invasion of privacy, it’s only because it is.  “Tracing worked well in South Korea.”  That may be, but then again, there is no concept of personal privacy in Asia.  “They’re doing it in Germany.”  Seriously, you’re giving me Germany as example?  Here’s Ulf Buermeyer, of the Berlin Department of Justice, and president of Germany’s Society for Civil Rights. “I am a privacy advocate, but I don’t hold privacy as an absolute value.  Privacy has to be balanced in context with other human rights.  Life and health, I think, are important human rights.”  So much for German privacy.  Papers please!  The problem with such a system in America is that darned Constitution of ours.  As recently as 2 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that we have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of our physical movements.  That means, in order to gather the information from the phones, the government would need a court order.  This rule applies to investigations of murderers and terrorists.  I don’t think it would be waived because somebody sneezed.  Not surprisingly, the Left is prepared to cancel your constitutional rights, for your own good, of course.
Derek Thompson of Atlantic Magazine says, “tracing might seem like a violation of our dignity and privacy … but compared with our present nightmare, strategically sacrificing our privacy might be the best way to protect other freedoms.”  Once again, the Left assures us, the only way to protect our rights is to surrender them to the government.  Anyone who’s uncomfortable with the prospect of officials from the Ministry of Tracing examining your every move, raise your hand.  My hand’s up.  Google and Apple promise they won’t sell your movements to commercial interests.  I guess that means they’ll stop because they’re doing that now.  What if you have no smart phone?  Maybe the government will issue new Obamaphones, with the handy tracing app.  If you have a phone and don’t carry it, will that be a crime?  It will be in Michigan.  And when the Wuhan virus is gone for good, will the government stop snooping, and send the tracers back to work at the 7-11?  Don’t hold your breath.  Rights that are “sacrificed” never come back.

Whenever a politician tells you that you have to accept “the new normal,” hold on to your wallet and prepare for another assault on your constitutional rights.  It’s nothing new.  We’ve heard that crap before.  “The good old days are gone.  We’ll never be what we were before.”  Go back to 1979, and Jimmy Carter’s depressing “malaise” speech, “We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.  The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.”  Carter was talking about the energy crisis, but we’ve gotten the same sad message from others – “America’s best days are behind us.”  The Bushes and Il Duce Obama sang that song about globalization.  “America can’t lead the world, we’re just one part of it.”  We had to accept the “new normal.”  President Trump proved them wrong.  In so many ways, screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was a prophet on this subject.  In Network, Arthur Jensen lectures Howard Beale, “There are no nations; there are no peoples.  There is no America.  There is no democracy.  There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.  Those are the nations of the world today.  The world is a business, Mr. Beale.  Our children will live to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality – one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock – all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.”  In the 45 years since that was written, it’s only gotten worse.  The latest call for acceptance of a new normal springs from governments’ reaction to the Wuhan virus.  “You might have had a good time before, attending sporting events and plays, and going to restaurants, but it’s all over now.  Get ready for the new normal.”  Let me make this perfectly clear.  There is no such thing as a “new normal.”  There is only normal and abnormal.  Sadly, that’s a heretical view at present.  Drastic action is necessary.  Your rights will just have to suffer.  California’s Governor Newsome has said there will be no public sporting events until 2021.  According to a group of Harvard disease “experts,” social distancing restrictions may remain in place in the US until 2022 to prevent outbreaks of the virus.  The new normal, right?  Wrong!  Here in the People’s Republic of New Jersey, there’s no end in sight for our lock down, but don’t lose sight of the reason for the restrictions.  The point wasn’t to have everyone hide out till the virus went away, but to “flatten the curve.”  On March 11, Dr. Fauci told us, “If you look at the curves of outbreaks, they go big peaks, and then come down.  What we need to do is flatten that down.”  It was all about hospital capacity.  Dr. Michael Mina, “It’s really all borne out of the risk of our health care infrastructure pulling apart at the seams if the virus spreads too quickly and too many people start showing up at the emergency room at any given time.”  Well, if that was the reason for the restrictions, mission accomplished.  24% of the counties in America never had a virus problem.  More than half the deaths to date are in NY and NJ, and even there, the hospital crisis has subsided.  But “experts” want more restrictions, and ghoulish Democrats actually want more deaths and economic disruption for the sole purpose of ridding themselves of Donald Trump.  But put politics aside.  Why should we rely on medical experts who have been wrong every step of the way?  The death rate models were wrong.  The experts assured us extreme social distancing was required, and the same experts assure us we turned the corner on the virus only because of the lock downs.  Maybe they’re right.  And maybe not.  Sweden, that utopian society that socialists keep telling us to emulate, did not order extreme social distancing and did not close schools, bars and businesses.  The result?  The death rate in Sweden is lower than that in other countries that did lock down, such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, U.K, France, Spain and Italy.  Belgium closed everything, and its death rate is three times that in Sweden.  The same is true in Singapore and Taiwan, where there were no closures.  Why?  An Israeli mathematics professor, Isaac Ben-Israel, may have the answer.  His statistical analysis demonstrates that the spread of the virus peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it.  The professor believes that, while social distancing was beneficial, destroying the world’s economy was unnecessary.  Ben-Israel’s being bashed, of course.  “Why, he not a even a doctor!”  Of course, neither is the head of the WHO a doctor, and they still listen to that corrupt imbecile.  I have no idea whether the professor is right, but you can’t argue with his statistical findings.  His model of a 40 day spread, and then a decline mirrors the experience in every country.  The NY experience is no exception.  The first confirmed case of the Wuhan virus in NY was a woman returning from Iran on March 1.  The New Rochelle outbreak started two days later.  Roll ahead 40 days, and the peak for hospitalizations came on April 8.  The first confirmed case in the US was in Washington State on January 19.  Give it a week or so to spread, and 70 days later (April) Washington is far down the list of hot spots.  We can only hope that the professor is right, and let’s face it, he’s got as much a chance of being right as the medical experts.  At least his numbers add up.  We flattened the curve, and now it’s time to sharpen the truth.  Reject the calls for a new abnormal.  Insist on the old normal.  You’re entitled to nothing less.

It’s difficult to conceive of anything positive coming from the Wuhan virus, but it may serve to convince people that globalization is not the benign and beneficial process that Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Il Duce Obama tried to sell us.  There are lots of reasons why people hate Donald Trump.  They’ll say it’s his “tone,” or claim he’s a king or a dictator.  But what it really comes down to is that he’s a true outsider.  The establishment in both Parties thought they had the system rigged, but Trump showed up, cut the line, and beat them at their own game.  That would have been enough to turn them against Trump, but he made it worse.  Trump’s America First, and Make America Great Again slogans were a stake in the hearts of globalists.  What’s more, they weren’t just slogans that would fade after the election, Trump really believed this stuff.  That was the danger.  You see, globalists didn’t become globalists out of some altruistic desire to have the whole world join hands and sing, like in the Coca-Cola commercial.  They became globalists because there’s lots of money in it.  Companies move their operations offshore to exploit cheap labor and tax laws.  That’s why our shirts all come from Bangladesh and Vietnam, and striking closer to home, why the bulk of our medical protective gear and more than 90% of our antibiotics come from China.  The globalists assured us that while the Chinese communists were ruthless bastards who ignored human rights, if we promoted industry in China, their  government would move away from despotism.  How did that work out?  China now has an economy that rivals our own, they’re bigger ruthless bastards than before, and they’re trying to take over the world.  And one way they are doing that is by controlling international organizations like the U.N.  I may be a cynic, but I’ve always viewed the U.N. as nothing more than an employment agency for out of work totalitarian dictators.  One such agency is the World Health Organization (WHO).  The WHO was founded in 1948, to coordinate international health policy, particularly on infectious disease.  It has a laudable mission statement – “WHO staff are united in a shared commitment to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere.  Together we strive to combat communicable diseases.”  The WHO is dedicated to – Integrity; Accountability; Independence; and Impartiality.  By its own standards, the WHO is a failure.  The performance of the WHO and its Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the Wuhan virus pandemic lacks any semblance of integrity, accountability, or independence.  In a word, the WHO’s performance has been shameful.  The WHO should be the world’s sentinel, identifying threats to public health, warning the world about them, and leading world health agencies to combat them.  Instead, the WHO is nothing more than a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party.  The WHO can work only when its 194 member nations are honest and transparent.  Yet despite being dishonest and opaque, China aspires to be viewed as the world leader in public health.  How to accomplish this?  Co-opt the WHO.  The election of Tedros was no accident.  His predecessor was Chinese.  When her term ended, the Chinese needed a surrogate to do their bidding.  Tedros was tailor made.  He was the Minister of Health of Ethiopia.  China engineered his election.  He had impeccable credentials, having served the Marxist Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, which was responsible for gross human right abuses, torture, repression, and election fraud.  More importantly, as Health Minister, Tedros’ claim to fame was his cover up of three cholera outbreaks.  The day after his election, Tedros pledged support for the Chinese Communist’s claim to Taiwan.  Then, he appointed brutal dictator Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador.”  Mugabe’s “good will” consisted of having arrested, tortured and killed tens of thousands in Zimbabwe.  In return, China  funded a new $80 million WHO “Center for Disease Control” in Ethiopia.  Thus, WHO’s shameful response to the Wuhan virus should come as no surprise.  China lied, and the WHO swore to it.  In January, China said the virus was not transmissible from person to person.  WHO repeated the lie, without ever checking the facts, announcing, “China is setting a new standard for outbreak response.”  Although WHO spends $200 million a year on travel, it sent no one to China till February 10th, and then failed to declare a pandemic till March 11th.  WHO could have acted much sooner, but its master, China, wouldn’t permit it.  We now know that Taiwan identified the new virus in December, it notified WHO and begged for information.  No one called them back.  Taiwan, you see, is not a WHO member.  China won’t allow it.  WHO employees are terrorized by the very mention of Taiwan.  When an interviewer asked WHO senior advisor, Canadian Dr. Bruce Aylward, about Taiwan’s response to the virus, Aylward pretended not to hear the question, then refused to answer.  Integrity, accountability, and independence my ass.  The WHO budget is more than $2 billion, and guess who pays the bulk of the freight?  That’s right, the U.S.  Uncle Sucker pays some $450 million a year.  China pays about a tenth of that.  When you add in the private contributions from U.S. based charities and foundations, the U.S. accounts for nearly half the WHO budget.  The Wuhan virus fiasco led the President to suspend the funding of WHO.  Democrats howled.  N.J. Senator Crooked Menendez wants the U.S. to fund the additional $675 million WHO wants for its pandemic response.  You can’t make this shit up.  Hollywood is doing its part too.  On April 18th, Lady Gaga is hosting a celebrity telethon on CBS, NBC and ABC, in which she and other Hollywood imbeciles will beg for donations to be sent to the WHO.  Might as well cut out the middle-man and address checks to, Wuhan, China, c/0 the Chinese Communist Party.  Nancy Pelosi won’t bring Congress back to approve more money to support Americans working for small businesses, but she wants the WHO funding restored immediately.  Once again, faced with a choice of supporting Americans or the Communist Chinese, the Left chose the Communists.  China and its puppet, the WHO, are arsonists who have set the world ablaze.  The Democrats want to send them more gasoline.

Maybe it’s cabin fever, or maybe it’s just because I’ve always been a contrary SOB, but am I the only one who’s grown tired of listening to the so-called experts who every day inflict on us the latest predictions of sickness and death from the Wuhan virus?  Don’t get me wrong, these are good people with good intentions, but what is it they say about the road to Hell?  Yes, the virus is a clear and present danger to public health, no doubt about it.  And yes, all Americans should be proud of the way the federal government has handled this crisis.  (Wow, I never thought those words would come out of my mouth).  And yes, it was necessary to impose restrictions on travel and assembly, but what restrictions, and for how long?  The type of restrictions were tried and true.  In 1918, in the wake of the Spanish flu, schools and places of public congregation were closed, and social distancing and hand washing were ordered.  Sound familiar?  The experts said those measures were effective, and yet more than 50 million people died world-wide; 675,000 in the U.S.  That experience is what caused today’s public health experts to close down all of society.  They say there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.  The statisticians have taken charge of our world.  The problem, however, is GIGO – garbage in, garbage out.  Data is plugged into models, the models inform the medical experts, the experts ring the alarm bells, and the politicians react.  It all goes back again to the Spanish flu, which had a mortality rate of 2.5%.  So, 2.5%, social distancing, hand washing, closures, and over 50 million people died.  Enter the Wuhan virus.  The “experts” said in January, February, and March that the death rate was 3 to 4%.  They warned about limited testing, people with the virus being asymptomatic, and kept saying the denominator would go up.  (I always hated math).  Dr. Birx, who has been a treasure, and seems to be quite reasonable, comes on TV every night, and regales us with tales of granular data and logarithmic progressions, then she smiles, our eyes roll back in our heads, and there’s another question about ventilators.  The problem is that, because the virus came from China, and because the Chinese method of reporting public health statistics is “Lie, lie, then blame America,” much of the data that went into the models, that caused the medical experts to ring the alarm bells, and forced politicians to shut it all down, was dead wrong.  I mean, I’m not an expert by any means, but when, over the course of two months, China reports 81,000 cases nationwide, and 32 or 35 new cases per day, even I know that has to be bullshit.  I’m not blaming the medical people.  And after being assured of an impending armageddon,  you can’t blame the politicians for taking their advice.  Let’s lay the blame right where it belongs – on the media.  In their defense, there were early reports of a horrific death toll.  The model of Professor Neil Ferguson of the British Imperial College claimed 500,000 would die in the United Kingdom and 2.2 million would die in the United States.  This “worst case” scenario was all the media needed.  If it bleeds, it leads, and what could be better than “millions dead?”  But although Professor Ferguson has repeatedly revised the death toll down, the media keeps predicting the end of the world.  Ferguson cut the number of British deaths in half, then scaled it back again, to under 20,000 deaths in Britain.  Our CDC also got into the act.  In late March, the CDC models predicted up to 240,000 deaths in the U.S.  People like Dr. Fauci told us we had to extend the lockdowns because of the models.  But, with his next breath, Dr. Fauci also said, “I’ve looked at all the models.  I’ve spent a lot of time on the models.  They don’t tell you anything.  You can’t really rely upon models.”  Huh?  Yet  last week, Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci said  that they expect between 100,000 and 200,000 fatalities, based on the IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) model.  IHME then said 81,00 deaths in the U.S.  As of April 7, IHME predicted 60,000 deaths.   Co-founder of The Federalist, Sean Davis, examined the IHME Coronavirus model and called it “garbage.”  We are in the midst of the week that IHME predicted to be the peak of the curve that we have been implored to “flatten.”  IHME predicted each State’s needs for hospital and ICU beds.  New York was predicted to need 50,962 hospital beds this week.  This model prompted Governor Cuomo’s constant pleas for ventilators, and President Trump’s nightly tallies of how many ventilators had been shipped to NY.  Apparently, Trump sent so many ventilators, that on April 6, Cuomo finally admitted he didn’t need any more.  Luckily the model was wrong again.  Things in NY are very bad, but as of April 6, only 18,368 were hospitalized, and the Governor reported on April 7, that hospitalizations continued to decline.  Despite that, the IHME model still said NY would run out of hospital beds on April 8.  Wrong again.  As for other States, the model has been equally inaccurate.  The model overestimated Texas hospitalizations by 88%; by 64% in Georgia; by 50% in Virginia; and by 91% in Tennessee.  This is good medical news, but economically, not so much.  We shut down our entire economy, because of the models.  Millions are out of work, because of the models.  Many businesses are never coming back, because of the models.  We are fast approaching the point where the politicians will have to thank the doctors, send them back to their labs, and get America back to work.  In all likelihood, the death toll from Wuhan will not surpass that of the seasonal flu, which kills 50 to 60 thousand people every year without locking down the entire country.  Remember, by now predicting 60,000 deaths, instead of 2.2 million, the models were off by 97.27%.  To illustrate, if a contractor gave you an estimate of $60,000 for a job, and later handed you a bill for $2.2 million, you might protest.  You know, and I know that, whenever Trump ends the restrictions, someone will die from the Wuhan virus, and the media will say Trump killed him.  So what?  It’s already started.  A week ago, imbecile Chuck Todd asked that other imbecile, Joe Biden, if Trump had blood on his hands.  That will continue.  Who cares?  The experts were wrong, and this madness needs to stop.  To quote Popeye, “That’s all we can stands, we can’t stands no more.”

Not the Wuhan virus, although that’s very contagious.  What’s also highly contagious are the lies and hysteria emanating from Democrat officials and the media, which serve only to create a needless panic among Americans, all in the name of  one  cause, the mindless hatred of Donald Trump.  Trump Derangement Syndrome once was funny, then became tiresome, and now it’s a downright danger to public health.  The Left opposes anything and everything that Trump supports.  They have no use for facts, no memory, and absolutely no shame.  It’s gotten so bad that, when Trump touted a medicine like hydroxychloraquine as a potential virus treatment, the Left bashed not only Trump, but the medicine itself.  That’s not just sick, it’s crazy.  And speaking of crazy, the Wicked Witch of the West, Nancy Pelosi, has chimed in on current events.   March 29th, Pelosi promised a new investigation, “President Trump’s denial at the beginning of this was deadly,” “When did this president know about this, and what did he know?  What did he know and when did he know it?” “That’s for an after-action review, but as the president fiddles, people are dying.”  Trump then labeled Pelosi “a sick puppy.”  Meanwhile,  from his basement command center, Joe (Grandpa Simpson) Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee, keeps advising Trump to, “listen to the science.”  Pelosi posturing and Biden blather aside, I thought we should explore “what did he know and when did he know it,” and what “the science” was telling us.   Although experts think the virus appeared in China in October, on 12/1/19 a new pneumonia-like illness was noted in Wuhan, China.  By 12/6, the Chinese knew it was spread from person to person, but denied that fact.  In mid-December, a Wuhan nurse claimed there were 90,000 cases in Wuhan alone.  12/31/19 and 1/5/20- China told the World Health Organization (WHO) there was no person to person transmission, which is required for a pandemic.  1/6/20 – The New York Times first reported Wuhan virus, and repeated the Chinese lie.  1/8/20 – Chinese claimed no deaths from virus.  That same day – WHO praised China’s management and advised against travel restrictions.  1/14/20 – WHO told the world there was no person to person transmission.  1/15/20- 1st case in Japan.  1/17/20- US begins health screening of travelers from Wuhan.  1/21/20- 1st US case in Washington, a traveler from China.  1/23/20- WHO finally admitted person to person transmission of the virus.  1/24/20- 5 US cases.  Trump should listen to the science?  On 1/26/20, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, the virus “isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about.”  1/31/20-  with 6 US cases, Trump banned travel from China.  Did Democrats say, “It’s about time?”  Uh, no.  Democrats were busy impeaching Trump.  Biden said, “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, hysterical xenophobia, and fear mongering.” The detestable Chuck Schumer tweeted, “The premature travel ban to and from China … is just an excuse to further his ongoing war against immigrants.”  2/4 – At the State of the Union, Trump warned about the coronavirus, and promised to “take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.”  Pelosi tore up the speech, calling it “pack of lies.”  Politico wrote, Trump’s “quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers.”  Listen to the science?  In February, the WHO said that widespread travel bans and restrictions weren’t needed, and could “have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit.”  Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research announced, “At this point, sharply curtailing air travel to and from China is more of an emotional or political reaction.”  The medical publication STAT News wrote that “public health experts have warned that travel bans are not effective at stemming the spread of a virus,” and blamed “conservative lawmakers and far-right supporters of the president for the ban.”  Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, a physician, warned, “In our response we can’t create prejudices and harbor anxieties toward one population.” “We shouldn’t have an antagonistic relationship with the Chinese.  We should be working hand in hand,” “Since the outbreak has already spread to several other countries,” mandatory quarantines “may be overkill.” (Perhaps a poor choice of words).   Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute of Global Health, said, “a ban may not be useful at preventing the spread of infection,” adding “politicians may feel they just have to “do something.”  The American Civil Liberties Union warned that Trump’s travel restrictions were an unconstitutional infringement on civil rights.   As this is written, the Washington, D.C. Mayor has threatened to arrest and jail anyone who leaves his home, and NY Mayor DeBlasio has threatened to permanently close churches if religious services are held.  There has been no further word from the ACLU.  Meanwhile, on 2/24, Pelosi criticized Trump’s “lack of preparedness” while urging people to visit San Francisco’s Chinatown, and decrying alleged racism against Asian Americans.  She said Trump was in “denial at the beginning,” and was not taking the virus seriously enough.  That same day, Schumer accused Trump of being “asleep at the wheel,” of having “no plan,” and being “slow to take action to confront the virus abroad.”  On 2/29, Trump extended restrictions on travel to Iran, Italy and S. Korea, and then on 3/11, to Europe.  Dr. Fauci has said the travel bans “absolutely made a difference.”  But Adam Schiff (for brains) said, Trump’s coronavirus speech was “kind of a crazy quilt,” and the travel ban was the craziest part, because “it applies to countries where there’s less of a problem in Europe, but not to South Korea.”  Uh, see 2/29, above.  So according to Democrats, Trump acted too fast, but not fast enough.  Very helpful.  Then, on 3/12, that great public health expert, Joe Biden, criticized the European travel ban, mumbling, “Banning all travel from Europe or any other part of the world may slow it, but it will not stop it.”  Listen to the science, right, Joe?  Europe is less of a problem?  As this is written, 72% of all deaths from the virus are in Europe.  China claims 3,300 deaths, but that’s another lie.  In the past 3 months, an additional 42,000 funeral urns were shipped to the Wuhan area.  I wonder why?  The President has listened to the science every step of the way, to the great detriment of the US economy.  We are ill served by the yammering imbeciles who accept Chinese and WHO lies, who ignore the facts, take no responsibility for their own statements, and who continue to lie to the American people.