Hat tip and BSWK: Victoria Taft, PJ Media.
Maybe some ‘rats believe it more advantageous for a voter to die than be saved by a republican, from Fox News:
[Nevada Governor Steve] Sisolak, a Democrat, issued an executive order Tuesday prohibiting prescriptions of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients after the president mentioned the two drugs during a press briefing.
“While the two drugs have necessary medical purposes, there is no conclusive evidence at this time among COVID-19 experts or Nevada’s own medical health advisory team that the drugs provide treatment for COVID-19 patients,” Sisolak said in a statement.
Mean while back in the world of the sane Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said, from Beitbart:
Yeah, of course, particularly if people have no other option. You want to give them hope. In fact, for physicians in this country, these drugs are approved drugs for other reasons. They’re anti-malaria drugs and they’re drugs against certain autoimmune diseases, like lupus. Physicians throughout the country can prescribe that in an off-label way. Which means they can write it for something it was not originally approved for. People do that all the time, and it really is an individual choice between the physician and his or her patient as to whether or not they want to do that.
While Sisolak is right that the chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have not be proven one hundred percent effective is curing Wuflu, it demonstrated fact that Wuflu does kill, and anti-Malaria drug are both safe and effective treatments. How many residents of Nevada is governor Sislolak willing to let die?
The federal government, headed by President Donald J. Trump, also recommend that we all wash our hands. I suppose Sisolak favors keeping his dirty, like his politics.
Joel Kotkin says in part:
Ever since classical times, pandemics have tended to be especially tough on large, dense urban areas. A look at a map of COVID-19 infections, reveals that the vast majority of cases have occurred in dense cities, like Wuhan, and later on around Milan, and, to a lesser extent, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Boston. In contrast there has been very little incidence in vast middle of country and particularly more rural areas, which benefit from less crowding and unwanted human contact, which now may be even more attractive to urban workers.
Well well, what do you know…
I’ve said it here for years, most effective way to get liberals out of governmental power is to enact liberal policy and wait for the backlash.
So Nancy Pelosi has finally thrown in the towel on… Well, let’s let Powerline do this one…à
Nancy Pelosi has thrown in the towel on her attempt to misuse the Wuhan virus epidemic to sneak partisan legislation that has never been able to make it through Congress into law.
Unfortunately, that (correct) assessment is not one being reflected in the supposed mainstream news media… Not that I would expect that to happen. Once again, the news media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party.
As John suggests, the polling data must have been atrocious for them to back off that quickly.
And you know who hasn’t made any comments about this at all? Joe Biden. Apparently, his handlers recognize the minefield that Nancy was strolling through with Chuckles and told Joe to keep himself out of that situation entirely.
To get something done, anything done, you need to do one of three things, to wit: lead, follow or get out of the way. Too much of the government is dedicated to option four, obstruction. In the Chinese Wuflu pandemic no alleged public servants have done more damage than the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration, from Red State:
At the center of just about every delay and misstep in this sorry saga, one does not find politicians or even political appointees, rather one finds the incompetent, turf-conscious, implacable bureaucrats in two of the agencies directly responsible for public health: the CDC and the FDA. In particular, the FDA seems to be at ground zero as a lackadaisical workforce used to being kowtowed to by Pharma and the medical device industry suddenly found itself under intense pressure to at least pretend it cared about what it was supposed to be doing.
More from Red State: :
The most important point the doctors make is that we don’t have the luxury of time. There are currently larger studies being conducted, but the results won’t be available for weeks. They explain, “We have a drug with an excellent safety profile but limited clinical outcomes—and no better alternatives until long after this disaster peaks. We can use this treatment to help save lives and prevent others from becoming infected. Or we can wait several weeks and risk discovering we didn’t do everything we could to end this pandemic as quickly as possible.” It will also help contain the spread of the disease.
We have drugs used for decades, with a manageable set of side effects, a disease which can kill in a matter of days and a government bureaucracy demanding studies which can take months, if not years. At least Comrade Bernie could pine about the Chinese solution for incompetent bureaucrats, summary execution.
The President is fighting a two front war. One is the battle to contain the Chinese Wuflu virus, and two, fending off the press corps, from Sister Toldjah, Red State:
[Jennifer] Rubin has moved on to even more important matters – like calling for a 9/11-style commission to investigate who knew what, when, and where about the Wuhan coranavirus. She even wrote a column about it.[…]
Let’s recap: China destroyed evidence about the virus in its early stages, and could have possibly saved thousands of lives and spared hundreds of thousands more people all over the world from getting sick in the first place had they acted on it immediately instead of trying to cover it up.
The World Health Organization ran interference for them the entire time.
If Ms. Rubin wants “answers” she can start with China and their propaganda arm at the WHO.
We don’t need a Nine Eleven style commission is where the Chinese Wuflu started, and why is spread. We already know that. What we the people need to know is why the lame stream media is acting like a paid propaganda organ of the Chi-Com regime.
The media has been infected with Quislings. We need an investigation, not by the government. We don’t need to provide the Quislings with an excuse to invoke the First Amendment. We need a private commission of some sort to determine from where Quislings got their propaganda. Why they spread it, and what they received for whoring services. Let Rubin be the first Quisling to testify.
Read this:
We have hundreds of thousands of churches and businesses and schools across America that are closed now. Many of them will not re-open. They didn’t fail because of some flaw within them or because their model didn’t work. They failed, or will fail, because of a tyrannical system beyond our shores that lied to the whole world. America’s churches and businesses and schools are closed because, on the other side of the world, China’s amoral dictators failed to be a normal nation and do the right thing. They lied out of their paranoid obsession with power. In America, we can make fun of Trump, call him names and mock whoever we want and find others who will laugh with us.
In China, merely displaying a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh — because of his resemblance to dictator Xi — risks imprisonment. Should we do business with such a thin-skinned despot?
For for my part, I say no. It is time to hold the Chinese Communist Party responsible for all of this and more.
And speaking of paranoid obsession with power, does it sound for all the world like a political party here in these beleaguered United States?
The Snark of the Day, from Kate, Small Dead Animals:
A government that runs a thriving market in selling the organs of executed political prisoners is in no position to hide behind political correctness – but if we’ve learned anything in the last few decades, it’s never underestimate the American media’s willingness to run interference for China.
Kate has more at her link.
News from the city formerly known as the City of Brotherly Love, the Phildelphia police department has one stopped enforcing certain “non-violent” crimes, and two stopped processing concealed carry permits, from Breitbart:
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Philadelphia police spokesperson Sekou Kinebrew indicated the department stopped issuance because there is no set day for when the processing unit will reopen during the coronavirus outbreak.
Kinebrew said, “Because this entire pandemic is inherently fluid, we can’t predict how long it will be closed.”
In addition to halting concealed permit issuance, the Philadelphia Police Department are relaxing their policies and “delaying arrest for … narcotics offenses, thefts, burglary and prostitution.” However, Kinebrew made clear “officers would continue to arrest people carrying a firearm without a permit.”
Somehow, I thought constitutional rights were presumed to be granted by God. Yet in Philadelphia these rights are granted by mere mortals… clerks. And this is the same city where once long ago our
Declaration of Independence was written. Funny, that.
First, Philadelphia gives license to criminals to prey on citizens with very limited fear of consequences. Then the same city inhibits the citizens of the city from exercising their God- given right to protect themselves. Lastly, the city police announce that they will selectively enforce the law on citizens who dare to protect themselves. This a gross violation of the civil rights of people of Philadelphia. The city government is now the enemy of the city.
No more donuts for Officer Friendly.
Well…. Yeah.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed President Trump for the city’s severe shortage of COVID-19 supplies even though City Hall didn’t secure its first order for emergency protective gear until March 6, The Post has learned.
It gets better…
When Mayor de Blasio dragged aides and members of his NYPD security detail to his Brooklyn YMCA Monday morning amidst the coronavirus outbreak, fellow fitness enthusiasts were coughing and sneezing — and a mentally ill person was walking around touching the equipment, a gym source said.
“It’s crazy that he made his staff and detail come with him to the gym and expose them like that,” the source said.
But the incident is just one example of the mayor’s disregard for the health of his staff during the crisis, multiple sources told The Post.
There’s also growing frustration from senior aides, who fault the mayor for dithering instead of making decisions, micromanaging instead of leading, and insisting he knows best instead of listening to others, three sources said.
And here’s the thing:
‘Thank god for Cuomo,’ is a common refrain among the mayor’s staff, made only partly in jest, sources said.
That’s because Gov. Andrew Cuomo has taken the lead on the city’s COVID-19 response — canceling the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, shutting down large venues including Broadway, and even pushing the mayor to close public schools.
A Communist who is an ineffective micromanager? Who would have ever thought?
We are talking about a city government that is on a level with San Francisco, in terms of stupid. And it starts at the top.
The supposed New York City leadership treated this virus like it was just a minor thing, nothing to worry about. We were told at the time that Trump started imposing travel bans, that he was overreacting and being a racist.
But now in retrospect, look at the dates in question, and you’ll see that the response to Trump’s actions changed from “he’s a racist” to “he’s not being hard enough on the virus, not doing enough”, right around the March 6th date that the NYC government finally took action.
And, OMG…. how bad is it when the the blithering idiot, Cuomo, is considered the adult in the room?
With all the shortages caused by Chinese Wuflu, the last thing we need are morons trying to impede the over the road trucks who trying to deliver the toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and canned chili to refill your local megamart’s empty shelves, from Megan Fox, PJ Media:
States Making Life Impossibly Hard for Truckers, Who Can’t Find Food and Bathrooms
In this unprecedented crisis brought to us by the lying Communists in China, the COVID-19 pandemic panic has gone too far. America’s truckers, the people we rely on to restock our empty grocery shelves, are being treated like disease vectors and worse, they’ve been forgotten.
Memo to governors, add to your list of essential employees, the guys that clean the restrooms. As Moses might say: Let my drivers pee … poop, eat and sleep.
The President has announced a FDA approved prescription cure for the Chinese Corona Virus(Wuflu), from Townhall:
President Trump confirmed Thursday that Hydroxychloroquine has been approved by FDA for prescription treatment of COVID-19.
Understand this: Hydroxychloroquine is not a new drug to treat a new disease. Hydroxychloroquine is old drug which has approved and used to treat Malaria. Remember the goal of the Food and Drug Administration is not to treat diseases by approving drug, but rather to prevent lawsuit of survivors with nasty side effects. The safety of Hydroxychloroquine is a proven fact.
Addendum: Eric
All true.
That said, one of the goals of the FDA is to make sure that when you prescribe something for a particular illness it’s going to be effective against that illness.
And therein lies the red tape. As is pointed out elsewhere, what’s holding us up, is the precautionary principle, which is preventing us from responding to this situation correctly. That’s why Trump has been chafing at the red tape.
There is a lot we don’t know about the Wuflu, how long is will last, its mortality rate or how long the epidemic swill last. However, there is a few things we do know about the Wuflu. Will know from where it came. And unlike the Spanish Flue, it did not come from Kansas, via PJ Media:
Chinese laboratories identified a mystery virus as a highly infectious new pathogen by late December last year, but they were ordered to stop tests, destroy samples and suppress the news, a Chinese media outlet has revealed.
A regional health official in Wuhan, centre of the outbreak, demanded the destruction of the lab samples that established the cause of unexplained viral pneumonia on January 1. China did not acknowledge there was human-to-human transmission until more than three weeks later…
Censors have been rapidly deleting the report from the Chinese internet.
Maybe, and for good reason, the lame stream media fears that if it refers to the flu as the Chinese or Wuhan Flu, the Chi-Coms will expel their reporters.
Video:
President Donny is right. The Chi-Coms did blame their Wuflu on our military. As such our Commander-in-Chief is honor bound to defend his military. If calling the Wuflu by the country of its origin causes some reporterettes to get their knicks in a twist. Sobeit!
The democrats have a habit of foisting feeble minded presidents on the nation. They did it with Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, and they trying to do with Slow Joe Biden now, from Washington Examiner:
[Harry Truman] noticed that FDR was so ill that he couldn’t even pour cream into his coffee. Despite seeing direct evidence of Roosevelt’s poor health, Truman told reporters afterwards that Roosevelt “Looked fine…He’s as keen as a briar.”
Truman was lying. Roosevelt was a dying man, which was evident to everyone who saw him. But during the 1944 campaign, a conspiracy of silence reigned about his health. Roosevelt had a physical in the summer that showed he had high blood pressure and was suffering from congestive heart failure, but the results were kept from the public.
With the assistance of a compliant media that was overwhelmingly sympathetic to FDR, the issue of Roosevelt was a dying man, which was evident to everyone who saw him.
Europe payed the price for a feeble American President:
In February 1945, a dangerously ill Roosevelt traveled to Yalta to meet with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to discuss the future of post-war Europe. At Yalta, FDR effectively surrendered Poland and most of Eastern Europe to the Soviets. During the conference, Roosevelt lacked the stamina to keep up Stalin, and the agreements they reached reflected the poor state of FDR’s health.
Yalta should serve as a warning to what can happen when a president is materially unfit, physically or mentally, to serve in office. Biden’s health should and must be an issue, if not the key issue during the campaign. We mustn’t let history repeat itself.
The world was a dangerous place in 1945, as it remains today. Joe Biden is not capable of know what room or even what state he is in. Roosevelt was not able to confront Joseph Stalin, and Biden would neither capable nor willing to confront China.
Since nobody’s hording from the health and beauty isle, I figure we’re probably three weeks away from knowing everyone’s true hair color.
That said, I am frankly thinking that there is very little in the way of actual hoarding going on at all, even on toilet paper.
Oh, I know… Certainly, there is some of it, but I’d like you to consider that the average household doesn’t keep more than about a week’s worth of food in the house, or toilet paper or whatever supplies were talking about here.
Along comes the government which is now suggesting that we’re going to be quarantined pretty much for 3 to by some reports, 6 weeks? does anybody really supposed that’s not going to cause a run on the grocery stores?
That said, my cat got out earlier today, and we thought we’d lost him all together. However, two hours later it came back with 25 bags of kitty litter. We figure he’s been listening to CNN too much.
