Before getting into the political stuff, this week we’ve gotten conflicting messages about the efficacy of one of the most important tools we have to beat the Wuhan Flu – MASKS. I encourage you to watch the video at the previous link, as well as this one from Bill Whittle: The Case For Masks to see for yourself why wearing one is so important. While the CDC and the Surgeon General have issued guidelines only calling for voluntary mask usage and, I’m sorry to say, our president foolishly said he wouldn’t wear one because “he didn’t want to,” everyone should wear a mask when going out in public. Trump doesn’t have to because – as is befitting the POTUS – he’s tested regularly and has an army of Secret Service agents making sure no infected people come anywhere near him. The rest of us, not so much. Obviously, masks are almost impossible to come by these days as high quality N95 masks are desperately needed for our front-line medical personnel. If you’re not fortunate enough to have included a few masks as part of your disaster preparedness stash, you still have options. As the previous videos have shown, even simple cloth masks are significantly better than nothing, and we must never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Here are a couple of videos showing how you can make a simple mask in 5 minutes using paper towels and rubber bands and an almost medical quality mask using vacuum cleaner bags. Stay safe, my friends. On the political front, it’s been another week of Monday morning quarterbacking, snarky gotcha questions from the Enemedia, revisionist history from slimy DemoCrap politicians, and a concerted effort from the entire Democrat Media Complex to make PDJT personally responsible for the Flu Shoo Pork pandemic. After watching the President’s daily virus briefings for a few weeks now, I’ve been struck by several things. In spite of occasionally letting his ego and mouth get in the way, wartime President Trump has been mostly large and in charge, displaying textbook crisis management and a great balance between stark reality and optimism, and his rising poll numbers show it. Also, at a time when our nation needs important information more than ever, it’s been hilarious to watch the Fake News Media led by ClowNN’s Jim AssCosta get b!tch-slapped on a daily basis by Trump and his panel of medical experts for asking irrelevant gotcha questions, thus proving themselves to be every bit the enemy of the people PDJT said they were. I also find it hysterical that these so-called “journalists” – who’ve been calling the president a dictator for 3 years – as Kurt Schlichter put it: demands to know why, back in December, Trump was not commanding a zillion Wuhan Flu tests, a zillion masks, and a zillion ventilators be created, while locking down all of America. Trump should just declare that due to contagion concerns, for their own protection, Look-At-Me Acosta, yellow journalist Weija Jiang (see what I did there?) and all the WH press Corpses will no longer be allowed in the room. It would be a great service to our country. While CEO Trump’s efforts at marshaling all levels of government and industry to combat the virus have raised his profile immensely, this time of crisis has had the opposite effect for Sleepy Joe Biden. In a futile quest to appear relevant, after several weeks in hiding Dementia Joe reemerged to play Monday morning quarterback via a “daily briefing” to second-guess everything the government is doing. I don’t know who’s brilliant idea it was to have pretend President Biden hold pretend briefings, but his incoherent ramblings and useless partisan sniping from the sidelines only served to make Slow Joe look like a 5-year-old – with roughly the same ability to read a teleprompter and same level of understanding. Besides, there’s nothing worse than a backseat driver – especially one who, last time he was behind the wheel, totaled the car and killed a bunch of people. But who’d expect anything different from the VP of the regime that lead from the rear? The pathetic, sad reality is, Quid Pro Joe is the best the DNC has to offer. And while his feeble griping only serves to make him look smaller, in fairness, what the heck else has Not-Senile-Joe got to do between watching Matlock reruns and having his Depends changed? For those of you that enjoyed last weeks great advice from Pluto the dog about dealing with our coronavirus concerns, here’s a new PSA (Pluto Service Announcement) with important information about the virus and yet another filled with ideas about treating our home-bound bodies right. Finally, while each week I try to inject a little levity into an otherwise grim situation, and we’re starting to see some evidence indicating this social distancing strategy may well be working, this madness has to end. Every day we remain shut down, more lives are ruined, more jobs are killed and great businesses are shuttered, never to reopen. Millions of people who just a month ago were thriving are becoming desperate and despondent, wondering how they’ll pay for food & rent. And unfortunately, as my friend Bob wrote in his excellent article, this is only the first tick of the pandemic clock, the after-shocks of which will likely reverberate for decades to come. We may now be in the biggest national crisis since WWII. The numbers here in NY are gruesome, and the models the “experts” rely on say the next 2 weeks will be crucial to win this fight. At this point, we have no choice but to stay home and hope they’re right. But if we don’t get our economy moving again – and damn soon – the loss of lives and livelihoods from the resulting great depression we may already have started in the attempt to combat it, may far outweigh the tens of thousands of lives lost to the virus.
