Tuesday, March 31, 2020

In the midst of COVID19 the DOJ defends women

The left generally rejects science. They deny that human life begins at conception and they deny that DNA defines a person's sex.

If that were simply an ideological belief then it would be madness but not something the DOJ should care about.

However since the left wants biological men to compete with women in sports the left's rejection of science results in very real discrimination against women in sports; the very thing that Title IX was designed to prevent.

Allowing men who claim to be women to compete against real women is effectively calling for the dismantling of Title IX and the end to women's athletic chances--and athletic scholarships.

But that's what the left, and Democrat politicians, in America are standing up for today.

They declare that "studies" have shown that men on hormone therapy are no stronger of faster than women.  But of course those studies are wrong.  We know that if hormone therapy isn't started before puberty biological men will develop larger hearts, stronger muscles etc.  It's evolution for Heaven's sake; men evolved to kill prey while women evolved to produce babies. Both roles are essential and both are equally valuable.  But to pretend men and women's physiologies are the same is to reject science.

There is obvious proof for this. When a man starts competing with women he suddenly becomes way more successful. Runners who were in the top 300 of men in an area are suddenly number one and setting records when they compete with women.  Biological men who were also rans in sports when competing with women are routinely breaking records when they pretend to be women.

Fortunately the DOJ has said no to this nonsense. Attorney General Barr said:

In our pluralistic society we generally try to accommodate how individuals desire to live their lives up to the point where those desires impinge on the other people’s rights. Allowing biological males to compete in all-female sports deprives women of the opportunity to participate fully and fairly in sports and is fundamentally unfair to female athletes.

Sports are an important part of education and character development and provide an arena where individual discipline can result in achievement and recognition. The purpose of all-female athletics is to ensure that women have an equal opportunity to participate, compete and excel in this important part of life. Title IX has been a major step forward in the long fight to achieve this equality.

As reflected in Title IX, the basis for single-sex athletics, is rooted in the reality of biological differences between the sexes. Clearly then, eligibility to participate on a single-sex team must be based on objective biological fact. Girls should not be forced, through the dismantling of Title IX, to be sidelined in their own sports.

That the DOJ has to say something so obvious shows how literally insane the left and Democrat politicians in America are today.

Why the left hates Mike Lindell the pillow man

MyPillow's Mike Lindell showed up at Trump's briefing yesterday and declared that we should pray while expressing gratitude for Trump's election--oh yeah he also announced that MyPillow has repurposed their production line and will be making 50,000 cotton face masks for health care workers every day starting Friday.

Given how the left is condemning Trump for a lack of face masks and the virus itself one would think that this would be good news.

But no. The leftwing Twitterverse is up in arms against Mike because for Heavens sake he said we should pray.

This is the reality we face; the left is more concerned about rejecting Trump and God than they are about saving the lives of healthcare workers.

About 20% of Democrat voters are leftists loons. The rest are decent folk who have been lied to so much that they actually believe that Trump colluded with Russia, that Trump is responsible for the coronavirus, and that Democrat politicians are good people.

That's why it's important for smart informed people like you to casually drop fact bombs around your friends who get their news from the #FakeNews media.  Truth is like a vaccine; once people have it they will never vote Democrat.

Misleading coronavirus headline about gloves and shopping

Historically FoxNews has been more reliable than the rest of the media but an article today had a misleading headline.

The headline was:

Dr. Siegel: Why wearing gloves at grocery store is not necessarily a good idea

Here's what the good doctor actually said in response to a question about whether wearing gloves when shopping is necessary:

“Gloves accumulate germs, gloves accumulate viruses,” Siegel told “Fox & Friends," responding to a viewer's question about whether wearing gloves at the grocery store is necessary.

“You’re going to not even realize when you touch something then you have it on the gloves, then you transfer it to your face, then you can get infected," he explained.

Siegel said that gloves are not necessarily the right answer.

“You can’t change them enough to make a difference so I vote 'no' on that one. Yes, on the continued hand-washing.”

Now all of that makes perfect sense but since one can't wash one's hands while at the grocery store using gloves once for each trip--and taking them off before touching your car--, very possible given how few trips to the store we're making these days, is better than washing hands alone.

I think that Dr. Siegal was thinking of the scenario where people use the same gloves for multiple trips to the store and think that because of that they don't need to wash their hands.

To be fair the problem is partially due to Siegal not clarifying which scenario he was talking about so we shouldn't ding FoxNews too badly.  However it's important to use this example as a reason to actually read what professionals say and think about it not just read a headline and go act on it.

Monday, March 30, 2020

University of Wisconsin at Madison provides cover for Chinese Communists

Some daring person in Madison Wisconsin is writing messages in chalk that blame China for the coronavirus.

The schools administrators are fighting back declaring that blaming the Communist regime's deliberate failure to respond to the virus isn't a bad thing.

Why are leftists always willing to defend totalitarian regimes?

We know that the corrupt totalitarian regime deliberately covered up the outbreak due to political concerns.  We know that if China had responded  just a few weeks earlier than they did the number of cases in China would have been 95% fewer and there probably wouldn't have been a global pandemic.

Yet leftists in America are condemning anyone who points that out.

What Nancy Pelosi was doing when coronavirus started

Pelosi is now attacking Trump for not responding to coronavirus sooner.

But when coronavirus first popped up Pelosi and the Democrats had just sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

Two days after the first coronavirus patient arrived in the US the House managers started their arguments in the Senate.

For the following weeks all that Pelosi cared about was impeaching Trump.  Yet she now acts as though it was Trump who didn't respond quickly enough.

Even as she and other Democrats poo pooed COVID19 and told people to not be worried Trump was banning travel to China, which Joe Biden called "xenophobic".

But now, with the help of the #FakeNews media Democrats like Pelosi and Biden are lying through their teeth about the past in order to blame Trump and use your suffering to help them win in November.

Don't vote for any Democrat in November because no matter how "moderate" they claim to be they vote in lock step with Pelosi.


#FakeNews media lies about Trump: When the country gets back to work edition

For years the #FakeNews media and the Democrats have been trying to paint Trump as some sort of fool.

But because his policies make sense they have to lie about what he says and does in order to advance their agenda.

The latest example is about when the shelter in place should end.  Trump said he'd like it to end by Easter a week or so ago.  The #FakeNews media covered the story as though Trump had said that he would end the shelter in place at Easter.

Of course every non-Democrat fanatic in America would like the shelter in place to end by Easter if that makes sense so what Trump said was perfectly reasonable.

Now that Trump has extended the shelter in place until the end of April, once again going against the #FakeNews media claims that he doesn't listen to the experts, the media is attacking him for having been wrong about the Easter date.

Clearly the #FakeNews media can't be trusted about anything.

Not only are they trying to sink the economy by panicking you they're weaponizing your suffering to gain political points for Democrat politicians.

They're not covering the fact that as recently as a couple of weeks ago Nancy Pelosi was telling people to go visit Chinatown or that Joe Biden said that Trump's travel ban on China was "xenophobic".

Instead they're making up things about what Trump has said. They're declaring that every hopeful statement he makes is a lie.

Effectively it's as though during WWII when FDR was working to ensure that we didn't lose hope the #FakeNews media was working to get us to lose hope and critiquing FDR.

But for those lies to work people can't hear what Trump actually says which is why the #FakeNews media is stopping coverage of Trump's daily talks. If people hear what Trump actually says then the #FakeNews media lies won't work.

One more bit of evidence that the objective of the #FakeNews media is to ensure that Democrats get more power not to inform you.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Coronavirus saves lives: Arkansas tornado edition

God works in mysterious ways.  A tornado ripped through a mall in Arkansas but because of the self quarantine the place was extremely empty.

When confronted with the folks who say that every natural disaster that God doesn't prevent is "proof" there is no God you man mention this to them.

The reality of course is that God has told us in Scripture that He only allows evil to draw out greater good.

So while God didn't create coronavirus He allowed it and He did so because He knows that in the end it will do more good than evil.

Millions of us are being reminded of our own mortality which will hopefully lead us away from pornography and the belief that the world is all that matters and back to a realization that how we live our lives and our relationship to God are what matter.

Perhaps we'll realize that being good is more important than just feeling good.

Act as though everything depends on you, pray as though everything depends on God.  That's good advice in these times.

Follow the rules that medical professionals have put in place but pray that we find a way to defeat the virus.

Oh one other possible plus to the virus.  I haven't confirmed it but I saw a report that the number of cases, and hence deaths, due to flu and pneumonia were down due to social distancing.

Economic recovery will be quick so don't panic

While the lives of the elderly are just as valuable from a moral/spiritual perspective of the lives of younger people the reality is that their economic value is very different.

If everyone over 75 died this instant other than a sharp drop in the need for nursing home workers the economy would be unaffected.  However if say all 30 year olds died the economy would be massively impacted because it's the younger people who are out there actually doing the work that keeps America going.

Now of course there are exceptions, such as older folk who run their own businesses, but the generalization is in fact correct.

Given that coronavirus is mainly killing the elderly, though keep in mind that even the oldest patients are much more likely to live than die from COVID19, once we drop the stay home regulations the economy will come roaring back since the work force and the demand for products and services will return.

The purpose of the stimulus bill is to help businesses weather the temporary loss of income so that they can start back up once people are let free.  This is being done by elevating demand--giving folks who are out of work more money--and by offering loans to companies.

What we do have to fear is not the virus, at the worst the chances of an average American dying are 1 in 100, but allowing our fear to disrupt the economy more than is necessary so that we end up in a long term recession which itself will lead to deaths.

With new treatments for coronavirus being found rapidly the biggest thing to remember is that there is no reason to panic.

Within hours of getting $25M the Kennedy Center quits paying its orchestra

For some reason Democrats put all sorts of pork for their supporters into the bill that was supposed to help Americans deal with the economic impacts of the coronavirus.

That included $25M for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Yet despite that massive infusion of your hard earned dollars the Center just laid off  its entire orchestra and all its librarians.

It would be interesting to know if the bosses at the Kennedy aren't being paid either.

In typical leftist fashion, the laws only apply to others, it turns out that the Center's actions are in violation of their contract with the union.

The union leader who represents the musicians said:

"This decision, from an organization with an endowment of nearly $100 million, is not only outrageous — coming after the musicians had expressed their willingness to discuss ways to accommodate the Kennedy Center during this challenging time — it is also blatantly illegal under the parties' collective bargaining agreement. That agreement specifically requires that the Center provide six weeks' notice before it can stop paying musicians for economic reasons,"

The purported rationale for the pork for Kennedy was:

The bailout was designed to "cover operating expenses required to ensure the continuity of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and its affiliates, including for employee compensation and benefits, grants, contracts, payments for rent or utilities, fees for artists or performers," according to the law's text. The arts organization decided that the relief did not extend to members of the National Symphony Orchestra, its house orchestra.

So since that's not happening was the real intent to just protect the bosses who probably give lots of money to Democrat politicians?

Clearly something is wrong.  Is it simple incompetence by the folks who run the Kennedy--they can't do math?-- or is it that they want to increase the center's endowment at the expense of the musicians and librarians?  Who knows.

One thing is clear that this is an early example of how the port Democrat politicians ask for won't end up helping hard working Americans.

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Why you can't trust anything the Washington Post says: Coronavirus edition

Just last month Democrat politicians were condemning Trump for his "overly aggressive" response to COVID19.

Joe Biden said that it was "xenophobic" to ban travel to China.  Perhaps that had something to do with the $1.5 billion dollars the Chinese government gave to Joe's son, Hunter, to manage.

And since the only reason for the existence of the WaPo is to lie in order to help Democrats get elected they too tried to tell us the coronavirus was no big deal.

But now they're condemning anyone who says that COVID19 might not be the end of the world.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/the-week-in-pictures-life-by-zoom-edition.php
What changed between 2/1 and 3/19?  Democrat politicians went from attacking Trump for being a racist and "overreacting" to coronavirus to declaring that we are all going to die so that the economy tanks.

Democrats think that if the economy is destroyed because of the Wuhan flu that you'll vote Democrat.

They're perfectly fine with you living in poverty if it means they will get elected.

Remember that in November.

And remember that the WaPo will say whatever they think will help Democrats not what is true.

Michigan's Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer is acting as though she wants her constituents to die

Whitmer has threatened all pharmacists who dare dispense hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.

Her government has threatened doctors who prescribe the medicine, which is regularly used by millions to deal with malaria, to patients with coronavirus. This despite the fact that evidence exists showing that doing so may help patients.

Now part of her order makes sense; don't let people hoard the drug but the order is a blanket condemnation not a call to exercise common sense or reasonable restraint.

Her neo-fascist orders also require people to report doctors who dare put their patients ahead of Whitmer's insanity.

Given that a debate is going on in Michigan about whether or not pharmacists have to fill prescriptions that violate their religious beliefs, like abortion inducing drugs, what this means is that pharmacists may have to dispense drugs that kill unborn babies while not being able to dispense a drug that could save the lives of those with COVID19.

So basically Whitmer's policy seems to be to poison to death unborn babies while denying people suffering from the Wuhan Flu a drug that might help them.

Meanwhile Whitmer is also lying about Trump trying to blame him for her failures.  She said that Trump said that they were on their own in terms of getting ventilators and other items needed to treat COVID19 which simply isn't true.

To be fair though Whitmer was probably saying that because of #FakeNews lies like this one;




But what Trump really said was this:

“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves. We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”

In other words as usual Trump was making sense.  Local responses are always better.  Finding medical equipment in Michigan or nearby states will get items into the field sooner than waiting on the federal bureaucracy to find them thousands of miles away.

Clearly Trump is backing them since he just ordered GM to make ventilators.

Not only is Whitmer acting as though she wants to kill her constituents she also wants to blame Trump for her actions.

New ways to treat Coronavirus are being found; Don't Panic

While it's true that treatments for any disease that haven't been tested on large groups have to be considered problematic until further testing is done it's also true that they are indications of why we should be hopeful.

While the Democrat governor of Nevada is outlawing the use of an anti-malarial drug which has shown promise treating COVID19 because some idiot ate fish bowl cleaner--which contains that drug along with toxic stuff-- the reality is that that drug is showing promise.

Now a new study, albeit only on 5 severely ill patients, shows that giving blood plasma from people who survived the Wuhan Flu can work wonders.  Unfortunately since we're dealing with life and death there was no control group who didn't receive the transfusion.  However the study does show that what is a well known clinical practice may work against coronavirus.

This is, as the article points out, an anecdotal story not proof. But the fact that the medical community is producing potential cures this quickly, how long did it take to get AIDS under control?, is reason to hope that a cure will be found soon.

So don't stop social distancing.  Even more importantly don't stop praying. But don't panic.

Friday, March 27, 2020

#FakeNews media hates COVID19 hope

President Trump is doing what FDR did; he's giving the American people hope in a time of crisis.

The reality is that even if the worst case scenarios are correct only about 1 in 100 Americans will die.

That's a huge number but it's a lot less severe than the Spanish Flu and America kept going during that not even pausing WWI.

The biggest risk we face isn't dying from coronavirus but our economy collapsing leading to long term poverty, reduced life spans, and suicides.

We see that in the Rust Belt where globalists exporting jobs to increase corporate profits has led to the opiod crisis and shortened life spans because people can't find a job.

But the #FakeNews media hate Trump and will tell any lie to hurt him irrespective of how much that hurts Americans.

They condemned him as a racist and xenophobe when he banned travel to and from China which experts now credit for buying valuable time for the US to get ready.

They cite unquestioningly Chinese Communist figures on the number of people who were infected and died in China to make Trump look bad.

They hate hope because if we are hopeful we won't trade our freedoms for security.

Democrat politicians, like all fascists, are eager for you to be so scared that you'll trade freedom for security.

That's why the #FakeNews media wants you afraid. They want you to give up your freedoms and let Democrat politicians control every aspect of your life from what sort of straw you use to how much soda you drink.


While people are dying of coronavirus and there's a shortage of masks, hand sanitizer, etc Planned Parenthood is asking for those items so they can keep on making money killing unborn babies.

Abortion is never necessary; deliver the baby don't kill her if that's necessary.

Even then only 0.3% of abortions are due to a risk to the mothers life.

It's insane to think that we should be directing limited resources to killing unborn babies. But abortion is Planned Parenthoods big cash cow and they want to keep the money flowing.

Democrat Chuck Schumer blocked more coronavirus aid to New York State


Yes it's true; Mitch McConnell wanted to give NYS more money because they have a worse problem but Democrat Chuck Schumer blocked it.

Schumer did so presumably because he thought that it would help the Democrat party. Otherwise given that Democrats have never seen a give away program funded with your hard earned dollars that they didn't like it's hard to understand why Schumer did this.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Don't panic: CDC death rates show that even the oldest people are 9 times more likely to live than die from coronavirus

The latest CDC report covering February 12 to March 16 shows the following mortality rates by age group:

  • 0 percent for those aged 0 to 19 (an age group that accounted for 5 percent of those included in the study, or 123 out of 2,449)
  • 0.1 percent for those aged 20 to 44 (an age group that accounted for 29 percent of those included in the study, or 705 out of 2,449)
  • 0.5 percent for those aged 45 to 54 (an age group that accounted for 18 percent of those included in the study, or 429 out of 2,449)
  • 1.4 percent for those aged 55 to 64 (an age group that accounted for 18 percent of those included in the study, or 429 out of 2,449)
  • 2.7 percent of those aged 65 to 74 (an age group that accounted for 16 percent of those included in the study, or 409 out of 2,449)
  • 4.3 percent of those aged 75 to 84 (an age group that accounted for 8 percent of those included in the study, or 210 out of 2,449)
  • 10.4 percent of those aged 85 and older (an age group that accounted for 6 percent of those included in the study, or 144 out of 2,449)
These are worse than the flu for Americans above 44 years of age but they're still very small.

For example for people who are 54 years old who get the virus, and not all people will get the virus, 5 out of every 1000 people will die. That means a typical 54 year old is nearly 200 times more likely to live than die if they get the virus.

Even the oldest people over 85 are 9 times more likely to live than die if they get the disease.

The bottom line is that with people are working hard to find vaccines and cures slowing down the immediate spread of the virus will drive down those numbers even more.

So with America's current policies we're quite likely to reduce the impact of the virus.

Don't listen to Democrat politicians or the #FakeNews media; we will survive this so long as we don't panic.

Democrats label Trump being reasonable as lies because they want panic

Democrat politicians and Democrat reporters are horrified that you like what Trump is saying and doing.

You don't want to panic but you do want the facts that will help you navigate this crisis.

Similarly you understand that we can't shut down America for 6 months without creating economic consequences that are far worse in terms of human deaths than the alternative will.

Look at the declining life span of Americans due to depression, suicide, and drug addiction in areas where Democrat policies exported manufacturing jobs leaving people with no hope.  It's clear that Trump is right; we have to find the right balance between putting people back to work and keeping people safe.

Democrats hate that. They want you out of work. They want a recession. They want you desperate for  government aid.  They want you to be willing to sell your freedom for food.

That's why the #FakeNews media are running around doing everything they can to make you afraid.

The reality is that if you're under 60 you're more likely to die from the yearly flu than from coronavirus. If you're between 60 and 70 you're more likely to die from coronavirus than from the flu but you're amazingly unlikely, say at least 10 to 1 and more likely 99 to 1, to die from either.

The people over 70 are at real risk but even the worst case number are that they're significantly more likely to survive than to die.

Here are the mortality numbers from the CDC:

  • 0 percent for those aged 0 to 19 (an age group that accounted for 5 percent of those included in the study, or 123 out of 2,449)
  • 0.1 percent for those aged 20 to 44 (an age group that accounted for 29 percent of those included in the study, or 705 out of 2,449)
  • 0.5 percent for those aged 45 to 54 (an age group that accounted for 18 percent of those included in the study, or 429 out of 2,449)
  • 1.4 percent for those aged 55 to 64 (an age group that accounted for 18 percent of those included in the study, or 429 out of 2,449)
  • 2.7 percent of those aged 65 to 74 (an age group that accounted for 16 percent of those included in the study, or 409 out of 2,449)
  • 4.3 percent of those aged 75 to 84 (an age group that accounted for 8 percent of those included in the study, or 210 out of 2,449)
  • 10.4 percent of those aged 85 and older (an age group that accounted for 6 percent of those included in the study, or 144 out of 2,449)
That means that if you're 75 to 84 years old odds are 22 to 1 that if you get the virus you'll live.

What Trump is doing is pointing that out so that everyone doesn't freak out.

FDR made a very good point at the beginning of WWII; the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

If we take precautions, shut down the country for awhile, and pray the vast majority of Americans will make it through this unscathed.

Democrats don't want you to hear that.  So when Trump says things that give you hope Democrats say he's lying.  The reality is that they're lying to scare you so that they can get more power.

NPR gets millions in relief bill but still lies about Trump

In this day and age when Catholic and Protestant radio stations are supported solely by private donations that we need to spend hard earned taxpayer dollars on NPR, and PBS.

If viewers like those left wing propaganda mills let them pay for them.

For example as part of NPR's campaigning for Joe Biden they "fact checked" Trump's claim that 50,000 people could die from the flu this year.  They said the total was half that.

But then they had to correct their own fact check since it turns out the CDC's estimate runs from 23,000 to 59,000.  So their initial fact check was totally wrong but they didn't care since it made Trump look bad.

Part of Nancy Pelosi's ripping you off includes $75M in the bill designed to help Americans deal with the corona virus for NPR and PBS.

In November remember that when you needed help Pelosi, Biden, Schumer and all the Democrats said no until they got what they wanted.  They didn't care if the economy tanked, if you were out of a job, or if old people's life savings were crashing.  All Democrats cared about was how could they use your suffering to get Republicans to give more of your tax money to Democrat voters so that Democrat politicians would win in November.

For a long time leftists have been hoping for a recession so they could blame Trump but it appears they're settling for blaming Trump for coronavirus instead.  Of course they'll be happy if we also get a recession.


Wednesday, March 25, 2020

To get aid to you McConnell had to agree to Schumer/Pelosi pork

While Democrats haven't agreed to pass the bill that will help you avoid the fall out of coronavirus they've made sure to include lots of spending on causes they like including:

  • $25M for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • $75M for PBS and NPR
  • $13M for Howard University which just happens to be in the middle of DC

Whether these things are good is irrelevant; they shouldn't be in a bill designed to help you survive the impact of the coronavirus on the economy.

Of course mainly very rich people enjoy these things.  If you listen to Catholic radio or any private Protestant radio station you have to donate to keep that station on line.  But if you're a leftist you get the taxpayers to make sure that NPR and PBS stay on even though hardly anyone listens to them.

Essentially what Democrats have demonstrated is that they hate you. They want the country to collapse because they think that will let them win in November. They've held up the relief bill so that you will suffer and they're only voting for it because they're afraid of the fallout if they don't and because they're supporters are getting millions of taxpayer dollars.

Pelosi caves: Won't hold up help for you until community newspaper workers get pension plans

After holding up the economic aid so many Americans desperately need for several days Pelosi has thrown in the towel and pass the $1.8T dollar bipartisan Senate bill.

That must have been hard for her since it means she left $0.7T in pork that was in her bill on the table.

Since at no point has she shown any concern about the American people the only reason for this is that Democrat's internal polls show that holding Americans financial security at risk in return for such  bizarre things as pension plans for community newspaper workers was killing Democrat's chances to win in November.

UPDATE: Removed Pelosi's condemnation of Trump's travel ban on failed countries that didn't relate to coronavirus.


#FakeNews media will lose money to keep you from hearing Trump keep you up to date on coronavirus

Every day Trump has been hosting very useful and informative briefings for you about the COVID19 situation.

As a result Trump's approval ratings have gone up; something that happened whenever the #FakeNews media fail to hide the truth from the American people.

These briefings are very popular.  This is from an AP story quoted at PowerLineBlog:

For the three cable news networks, five Trump briefings last week each had more than double the audience the networks had for the same time period a year earlier, the Nielsen company said.

For example, Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC attracted 8.28 million viewers for Trump’s briefing Friday, nearly half of them watching Fox. [Ed.: That ratio is pretty typical of the three cable news networks’ audiences.] The audience for those networks a year earlier was 2.82 million, Nielsen said.

“When people are tuning in in droves to watch a news event, that tells you that they’re interested in it — and you have to pay attention to that,” said Jonathan Klein, a former CNN president.

So the natural reaction would be to draw in the audience and then make money from commercials in commentary shows that ran before and after the briefing.

Instead the networks are cutting back on their coverage despite the fact that has to be costing them money.

Like the Starbucks CEO who cost his company a fortune by declaring that people who didn't support the redefinition of marriage weren't welcome to own Starbucks stock the CEOs of these networks are stealing their stockholders money to push their own political agenda.

But even worse in this time of crisis keeping Americans from seeing what the President and their government are doing, from seeing what we the people have demonstrated we want to see, shows that the #FakeNews media is more interested in advancing Democrat's election chances than they are about you.


Nancy Pelosi impeached Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine: She's now withholding aid from you

Last Saturday Trump, Republicans, and Democrats had a bipartisan relief package that they all agreed to. It was focused solely on helping those suffering from the impacts, direct and indirect, of the coronavirus.

Then Sunday morning Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer stepped in and declared that they wouldn't help you until they got what they wanted for their supporters.  Pelosi's wish list included a huge list of things totally unrelated to helping Americans deal with the pandemic:
  • Corporate pay statistics by race
  • Bailing out all current Postal Service debt
  • Requiring early voting
  • Requiring same day registration
  • $10K bailout for student loans
  • If a company accepts assistances their workers must choose 1/3 of the companies board members
  • Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining
  • Full offset of airline CO2 emissions by 2025
  • Greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
  • Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
  • $15 minimum wage if company receiving assistance
  • Permanent paid leave at companies receiving assistance
Essentially what Nancy is doing is running a protection racket. Unless she gets hers she'll ensure that you will struggle financially.

The hypocrisy of this is amazing in that just before Christmas  Nancy tried to impeach Trump for delaying military aid to Ukraine by a few weeks.

Given that Nancy wasn't bothered when Obama refused to provide any military aid to Ukraine it's clear that she doesn't care about Ukrainians but know we know that she doesn't care about you either.

All Pelosi cares about is getting more power which includes getting pork for her supporters.

Also note that some of her requests are designed to make election fraud easier.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

The #FakeNews in action: Stimulus Bill edition



While starting out with honesty it's clear that their job as propagandists for the Democrats quickly won out.

We can never trust anything they say.

Why you can't trust the New York Times: COVID19 relief edition

Here's a headline from the NYT:



This is in fact a lie.  Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are blocking the relief bill.  Pelosi has passed a House version with no debate and no Republican input that demands:

  • Corporate pay statistics by race
  • Bailing out all current Postal Service debt
  • Requiring early voting
  • Requiring same day registration
  • $10K bailout for student loans
  • If a company accepts assistances their workers must choose 1/3 of the companies board members
  • Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining
  • Full offset of airline CO2 emissions by 2025
  • Greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
  • Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
  • $15 minimum wage if company receiving assistance
  • Permanent paid leave at companies receiving assistance

Whether you like or dislike these proposals no honest person can say that they're related to helping Americans deal with consequences of government policies that are keeping them from working and shopping.

By saying that McConnell is at fault for not simply giving in to Democrat politicians protection racket, give us what we want or Americans will suffer, the NYT is showing that it too doesn't give a darn about how much Americans suffer.

Can you imagine the outcry if McConnell was holding up relief until Democrats agreed to a ban on abortions after 20 weeks or a long term tax cut?

Good people know that this bill should be about helping counter the negative impacts of government policies that are protecting Americans but which are also hurting American's financial security.

But by making the bill a laundry list of Democrat politician's unrelated desires it's Democrat politicians who are at fault not Mitch McConnell.

Economics are life: Balancing the COVID19 response

When the Great Depression hit no one got sick but many suffered and died.

The reality is that if unemployment hits 20% or higher people will die for a variety of reasons including suicide, malnutrition, etc.

More recently the massive loss of manufacturing jobs in middle America has led to a significant reduction in US life expectancy.  Amazingly a Washington Post columnist cites two economists saying:

[A] rise in deaths linked to long-term economic hardship — suicide, overdoses and the like — has caused devastation in communities across the middle of the country, leading to a troubling recent decline in U.S. life expectancy.
Economic prosperity is a matter of public health, too — the necessary condition for it, in fact. The United States must respond to the coronavirus accordingly.
Hence when looking at how we can deal with COVID19 it means that simply shutting America down for a few months will have negative health consequences. The question is will those long term consequences be worse than the consequences of not shutting down America?

Of course when asking that question we have to remember that the Democrat base is largely immune to the impacts of America shutting down.

The rich Silicon Valley social justice warriors can all work from home so they're not bothered.

Government workers will keep getting paid whether or not they work so they don't care.

Those on welfare or government assistance will keep getting paid too.

Politicians will keep getting paid.

That's why Democrats are fine with destroying the economy by demanding same day voter registration before they'll support economic relief for Americans who don't have the economic security that the people that Democrat politicians care about have.

The correct answer to the question may be to shut America down.  But Democrat politicians don't know that. Instead what's clear is that no matter what Trump does they will condemn it.

Instead of coming together in this crisis Democrat politicians are demonstrating that what matters to them is getting more power and advancing their ideological agenda.

Can you imagine the outcry, including from pro-lifers, if Republicans were holding up the desperately needed economic stimulus until Democrats agreed to ban abortions after 20 weeks?

This bill is about helping Americans due to the consequences of government policies that are restricting people's ability to work.  By making it about everything from ensuring that community newspaper workers have retirement plans to airlines being carbon neutral by 2025 Democrats are making a clear and unambiguous statement:  They care about power and their agenda and they don't care about we the people.

Truth vs Democrats: COVID19 preparedness editon

Back in late 2019 the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NIT) and the John Hopkins Center for Health Security(JHU) worked with support from an international panel of experts, total team size over 100 researchers, to asses the world's readiness of a pandemic.

Contrary to the lies that the Democrats and the #FakeNews media are spreading the results showed that America was the country best prepared to deal with a pandemic.

Interestingly the report also implied that Democrat policies were responsible for lowering America's score.

The factors the report said that kept America from a perfect score included:

  • The Risk of Social Unrest
  • Terrorism
  • Low public confidence in the government

What are we seeing now?  Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are holding up the economic relief that America needs and thereby driving up social unrest so that they can ensure the workers at community newspapers have pension plans.

Also ever since 2016 Democrats have been "resisting", Antifa--the new Brown Shirts of the Democrat party-- has been taking the streets, and Democrat politicians and the #FakeNews media have been trying to agitate the people to revolt.

When Trump killed the Iranian terrorist mastermind, Soleimani, Democrats condemned it.  For the last decade or longer Democrats have been soft on terrorism.  Obama for example did all he could to help Iran including giving them money that John Kerry admitted would be used, at least in part, to fund terrorism.

The three year long bogus Russian collusion/impeachment campaign by Democrats has driven down confidence in government.  Conservatives see that Democrat politicians are interested only in their own power while leftists falsely believe that Russia runs our elections.

Hence not only are Democrats wrong when they attack Trump for America not being prepared for coronavirus but the fact is that it's Democrat policies that led to weakening America's response.

Oh and one last thing. Don't forget that Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden both condemned Trump's travel ban on China; you know the one that bought the US precious time to prepare to protect ourselves.



This is the Democrat politicians DNA:
  • Push policies that hurt Americans but get Democrat politicians more power
  • Blame Republicans for what Democrats are doing
  • Count on the #FakeNews media to lie so much that enough Americans are confused to ensure that Democrats don't pay for their crimes.




Monday, March 23, 2020

Nancy Pelosi wants Black plumbers to pay for rich white kids gender studies degrees

One of the things Nancy Pelosi is holding your financial future hostage for is a $10K bribe to all the folks who borrowed money for college but haven't paid it back yet.

If you went to college and paid off your loans you're out of luck.

If you worked hard and paid for college when you were in school you're out of luck.

If you're one of the 60% of Americans who never went to college you're out of luck.

But if your parents are multimillionaires and you went to Harvard to get a degree in gender studies Nancy wants to give you money originally earned by hard working Black plumbers.

Today the party of the rich is the Democrat party.

Leftist says Democrats should let Americans suffer so long as it advances the Democrat agenda





So a major figure in the leftist blogosphere comes out and admits that he's all for you suffering if it will help Democrats advance their agenda.

If you've got a 401K or any sort of savings plan odds are that if the market goes down 20% your savings will go down 20%.

That doesn't bother leftists.  They're either rich, supported by rich parents, government workers who get paid no matter what, or on welfare.  They are perfectly willing to crush your economic future if it means that they can get more power.

UPDATE: Here's what Pelosi is demanding in return for voting to help you:




If Pelosi get's her way many small businesses will refuse any aid and lay off workers instead rather than bake in long term cost increases due to minimum wage hikes and paid leave costs.

We have a ruling class that lords it over us: government workers never get laid off edition

While millions of Americans face the loss of their jobs our "betters" who work for the government know that they will continue not only to have jobs but to be paid.

This is more evidence for the existence of a ruling class in America made up of rich coastal elites and government workers.

Here are two plots that show just how much better paid government workers are than those of us who pay their salaries:


Now the elites tell us that that's fine since government workers have to be smarter than people working in the private sector.  But since most government workers are nothing more than paper pushers that's ridiculous.

But even ignoring that our federal bureaucratic overlords are paid more than we are they also have another advantage that we don't; they never lose their jobs.

A VA official was fired for putting patients at risk. He was rehired because the civil service board said that he should be paid until his appeal was heard.  Can you imagine having that sort of job security?  You can literally risk killing people and still keep your job.

Is it any wonder that the millions of federal government workers, which doesn't include members of the military, are staunchly elitist?  Is it surprising that they rule over us following the tenants of the rich coastal elites where they often come from.

No wonder that they and the rest of the coastal elites think that working at home is a viable thing.  They never think about the millions of Americans who can't work at home; contractors, restaurant workers, truck drivers, small business owners, etc. Because government workers can work at home and know that they can't be fired they have no idea what the average American is going through today.

Even the New York Times effectively condemns Pelosi, Schumer over coronavirus aid

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/03/22/stunning-nyt-headline-senate-democrats-blocked-action-trillion-dollar-stimulus-plan/
The article goes on to say:

In voting to block action, Democrats risked a political backlash if they are seen as obstructing progress on a measure that is widely regarded as crucial to aid desperate Americans and buttress a flagging economy.

Why are they doing this?  Well apparently they're using your suffering to try and force Republicans to include lots of things totally unrelated to coronavirus and its economic impacts into the stimulus bill.

Details aren't confirmed because Republicans are still desperate to help you by passing the bill but among the things that Democrats are allegedly demanding are:
  • Funding for abortion--why are Pelosi and Schumer so keen to kill babies?
  • More solar and wind power tax credits--corporate welfare for leftist billionaires
  • Higher emission standards on airlines--make eco fanatics feel good about themselves
  • More power for unions--pay unions back for all their support for Democrats
Whether or not one thinks these measures are important or good they shouldn't be tied to an economic stimulus package that everyday Americans need to financially survive the coronavirus.

Given that leftists have been hoping, they don't pray, for a recession so that Trump won't get reelected  it's not surprising that Democrat politicians are working hard to make sure we get one.  They've been constantly stoking our fear over the virus even as they attack Trump for being a "racist" when he takes steps to protect us.

They're counting on the #FakeNews media lying and putting the blame on Trump so that when November rolls around people will falsely blame Trump for what the Democrat politicians are doing today.

Democrats are scared because Trump is acting responsibly and Presidential during this crisis. Like FDR he's telling us that all we have to fear is fear itself and taking steps to limit the impact of the disease on Americans.  That's why his ratings are going up.

Democrat politicians don't care if you suffer but they will do anything to stop Trump from being reelected.  Because they will keep getting paid no matter what they won't suffer like millions of Americans are due to the COVID19 virus.  Similarly their voting base, which tends to be either very rich or on welfare, will weather the crisis just fine.  Hence the only thing that would make the Democrats support the stimulus bill is if they cared about you.  

That they're not supporting the bill is clear evidence that they don't care about you.


Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer are blocking help for you until they get what they want



The market is at risk, people are losing jobs, and small businesses that employ most Americans are going out of business because Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and all the Democrats are refusing to help unless they get to help their supporters more than everyone else is helped.

The unions are the backbone of the Democrat party so Democrats are going to give them more power.

Leftists environmental loons are a key element of the Democrat twitterverse so they'll be able to feel good about themselves if airlines are forced to meet unnecessary requirements--which will drive up the cost of tickets keeping average Americans from flying.

And of course if Solyndra taught us anything it's that Democrat contributors love to make money off of economically unviable wind and solar energy by leeching off the taxpayers--which is what tax credits are in that case.

While tens of millions of Americans are in a tough bind due to the coronavirus Trump and Republicans are desperate to use the government as it's supposed to be used--to help the people--Democrats are saying no until they get what is good for Democrats only.



If Republicans controlled the House the bill would have passed and help would be on its way to Americans in need.

We know this is all due to Democrats because not only did Democrats help craft the plan they were supporting it on Saturday. Then suddenly not only did they stop supporting it and start making new selfish demands they broke off negotiations thereby ensuring that when the stock market opened investors would think that help isn't on the way for Americans.

Remember if you voted for a "moderate" Democrat in 2018 they're probably supporting this radical Democrat agenda and thereby showing how Democrat politicians are quite willing for you to suffer if it helps them.

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Democrat Politicians hate you and want to crash the economy

Democrats got a big boost out of the Great Depression and they're working hard to recreate it today.

Instead of working with Republicans on relief to stave off massive layoff due to the corona virus Nancy Pelosi has stopped negotiating and is planning on delaying help for Americans in need.

One more example of how Democrat politicians are making decisions based on what's best for them and not what's best for Americans.

Clearly Democrat politicians are willing to let you suffer to achieve their goals. Sure they're losing money due to the stock market but as government employees they, unlike you, will continue to be paid no matter what.

Democrats govern for themselves and view us as resources to be used to help them get what they want.

UPDATE: Democrat Senator have voted against giving money to Americans who are being hurt by the coronavirus.  In doing so they knew that it would cause the stock market to drop tomorrow--Monday--thereby stealing money from the savings plans of millions of Americans.

They are putting their political success ahead of your health; economic and physical.

Just recently they've been pushing for free medical care for illegal aliens and giving money to people who could work but who don't want to but now they say no to giving hard working Americans a hand in the face of a natural disaster.

Remember that when you vote in November.  Democrat politicians are monsters who hate you and will hurt you if they think that will help them get power. They're counting on the #FakeNews media lying to you so much that you don't realize how they're stabbing you in the back.

Trump is unleashing American creativity: Booze to hand sanitizer editon

While Democrats always turn to giving themselves more power over us in any crisis Trump and conservatives turn to the American people.

Right now multiple booze producing companies like Pernod Ricard USA and Cotton & Reed are repurposing their alcohol as hand sanitizing products.

In doing so the companies are both helping America and helping themselves. The income they get from selling hand sanitizer enables them to keep paying their employees and keep the economy moving.

That's the great strength of capitalism. While the already overpaid government bureaucrats will keep getting paid no matter what hard working Americans are losing their jobs.  Hence hard working taxpayers are far more motivated to find solutions quickly than are deep state actors who have job security.

Companies in other industries are also stepping up by moving out of their usual product line to produce ventilators and other items that may be needed to help those who contract the disease.

Why do the #FakeNews media want to keep you from hearing Trump?

First the #FakeNews media ignored coronavirus and spent their time mocking Trump because his panel of experts was too white.

Then they attacked Trump for putting a travel ban on China to slow the spread of COVID19 to the US. Joe Biden accused Trump of xenophobia.

Then they tried to blame the virus on Trump. They called for renaming the coronavirus as the Trump virus.  Just what the Chinese Communist tyrants whose massive incompetence and deliberate refusal to address the start of corona virus has created this pandemic want.

Then they condemned Trump as being racist for calling a virus that originated in China a "Chinese" virus.  Do you know anyone who hates Germans because their kid catches German measles?

Now with Trump providing daily briefings to help Americans know the truth of what's going on voices in the #FakeNews media want to censor his talks.




It would be like Republicans calling to censor FDR's fireside chats.

The reality is that today the only thing we should fear is fear itself.  Even the worst credible predictions for deaths in the US are small compared to the impact of the Spanish Flu back in 1918.

If we take the hit now and limit the spread of the virus we can recover quickly if we don't panic and hoard.

But the #FakeNews media wants us to panic. They're rich enough that they'll still be fine as the market plunges but we the people won't be.  Leftists have been hoping, they don't pray, for a recession so that Trump won't get reelected for quite some time.

They're perfectly willing for you to suffer so that their candidate gets elected.

Don't doubt for a moment that a large portion of the #FakeNews media views coronavirus as a fantastic thing.  Without it old Joe wouldn't have a chance at winning but if Americans suffer enough and the #FakeNews media can blame Trump enough then he could pull it off.

That's why they don't want you to hear positive FDR like rhetoric from Trump; they want you to lose hope and they don't want Trump to be able to defend himself.

They want to weaponize your suffering to increase the power of Democrats over every aspect of your lives.




A study by the University of Southhampton shows that China could have prevented 95% of China's Corona virus cases

You can find the study here but the key section is this:

The early detection and isolation of cases was estimated to prevent more infections than travel restrictions and contact reductions, but integrated NPIs[Non Pharmaceutical Intervetions, ie stuff other than drugs] would achieve the strongest and most rapid effect. If NPIs could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier in China, cases could have been reduced by 66%, 86%, and 95%, respectively, together with significantly reducing the number of affected areas.

Clearly the Chinese Communist regimes trying to hide rather than address the corona virus had a massive impact on cases in China and as a result cases in the world as a whole.

While the study doesn't address the global impact it's logical to presume that with 95% fewer Chinese infected the number of satellite outbreaks around the world would be much fewer too.

The good news is that this study indicates that the social distancing and lock down measures that the US is taking are in fact likely to stop the pandemic.

It also explains why the "hug a Chinese" campaign in Italy contributed to the massive explosion of the COVID19 virus in that country.

Once we get out of this crisis what's important to note is that while Trump was implementing NPIs like the travel bans Democrats like Joe Biden were condemning him.

The after action report on this crisis will show that Trump was the apolitical adult in the room who did whatever was best for the American people.

After the 2008 financial crisis instead of reducing regulations and cutting taxes Obama refused to stray from the Big Government Democrat party line. But in the COVID19 crisis Trump is fully willing, as are most conservatives, to expand government temporarily in order to help those who are suffering.

Democrats govern based on rigid theories, what works out best for themselves, and the belief that they know better than we do where as Republicans always are looking out for we the people.


Catholics there are a huge number of live streaming Masses at ever time

Many Catholics in America can't go to Mass today not because they're sick or because they're too far from a church but because no Masses are being offered in order that the spread of COVID 19 can be constrained.

But fortunately there are more tons of Masses being offered live on the Internet.

Go to Mass-online.org and you'll find this:


Click on the Holy Mass online in English link and you'll see this:
Pick a time and a parish and voila you'll be able to watch the Mass online live.  There are literally Masses every 1/2 hour or so.

Note since I only live in one time zone I don't know if the event times are adjusted for your time zone or if they always show up in your local time.  If you're not in Pacific US time and you see the times in your local time please post a comment so I can update the article.

I'm no theologian however I recall that when Pope Francis became Pope I heard that those who watched his first talk live received the blessing he gave the world but that those who watched a recording didn't.

That makes sense in that traditionally if there was an overflow crowd at a Mass those who were outside the church but who were part of the crowd counted as attending the Mass and received the Grace for doing so.  On the other hand the idea of getting repeated blessings by looping a video of a priest giving a blessing doesn't make a lot of sense.

Now of course we can't go to Communion in a livestream.  However God in His infinite love and Mercy has provided us with a way to receive Communion when, through no fault of our own, we can't be physically present at Mass.

It's called a spiritual communion.  You can find the prayer at EWTN and I'm repeating it here as well:

My Jesus,
I believe that You
are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment
receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.

We should take this time as a way to increase our love for God by recognizing how going to Mass isn't something we have to do but realizing, when we can't attend in this crisis, that it's something we get to do.

Hopefully when we leave this desert and Masses resume we'll be more appreciative of just how good God is to us by sharing Himself Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity at every Mass.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Coronavirus's GDP impact is 1/2 that of the Kyoto accords

Before the Paris Accords, back when it was still called global warming, the Kyoto accords were labeled as essential to staving off the death of humanity.

Estimates of the impact on Americans of those accords indicated that the GDP would drop by 21% if the US signed on and followed them.

That's three times worse than the impact of the coronavirus on the economy to date.

And unlike the coronavirus the impact of the Kyoto accords would go on forever.

Yet the leftists showed not one bit of concern for all the poor and lower middle class Americans who would suffer.

Remember that when the coronavirus craze dissipates and we get back to the left demanding that the Americans suffer while the same leftists allow China to increase CO2 production by leaps and bounds.

Where is Joe Biden?

Since coronavirus took off Joe Biden hasn't had any campaign events or even said much of anything.

It's so obvious that #WhereisJoe is trending on Twitter.

It's possible that he's simply waiting to die.  After all a key member of Joe's coronavirus task force is a man who said that not only does he want to die at 75, since after that everyone is a drooling fool, but that everyone should want to die at 75.

Given that Joe is 78 according to his trusted advisor he should have died 3 years ago.

However given Joe's ego that's not the likely scenario.

But do we want a President who goes into hiding when the nation is facing a crisis?

Since Joe was attacking Trump's travel bans less than 2 weeks ago it's clear that Joe isn't staying silent to let Trump deal with the problem.

But even if Joe didn't want to be divisive he could be out talking about how we can help each other and how we shouldn't panic.

But instead we get crickets.

The presidency tests men and coronavirus is testing presidential candidates. Are they working to help Americans or help themselves get reelected? Clearly Joe isn't working to help Americans by pointing out there is no reason to panic.

Italy's coronavirus problem is bad because of leftists

There are many reasons that Italy is doing worse than other countries in combating the coronavirus:

  • Italy's medical system is single payer and not very good
  • Italy's population is older

But leftist fear of "racism" is also a big contributor.

It turns out that the mayor of Florence told Italians to "hug a Chinese" on Feb 1 long after the world knew of the danger.  Italy has a lot of Chinese nationals in residence because Italy has bought into the Chinese "One Belt, One Road" economic imperialism initiative.



Of course non-leftists realize that not hugging people who are more likely to have a dangerous infectious disease isn't racist; it's common sense.

At the same time those who didn't want to hug or be near people who could be carrying a very dangerous virus didn't hate the possible carriers.

If they did then all Americans who are practicing "social distancing" hate all other Americans.

Leftists put virtue signaling ahead of the health of Americans too. That's why the even "moderates" like Joe Biden called Trump's travel ban on China "xenophobic".  Similarly saying that calling a virus that originated in China and which spread due to the horrible actions of the totalitarian Chinese government the "Chinese Virus" is racist is absurd.

Just a week or so ago the New York Times tried to rename corona virus "Trump Virus" and the left didn't universal object to that.

Do the math; with Trump's aggressive efforts coronavirus won't be much worse than the flu

Over at PowerLineBlog they posted this plot showing deaths per million for various countries:

Italy has by far the highest rate at around 67 per million.  It could rise higher to say 100 per million.

Presently the US rate is 0.7 per million.

The US rate is unlikely to rise to that of Italy because:

  • The Italian population is much older than the US population
  • The Italian medical system funnels people into hospitals where they can spread the disease
  • More Italians smoke
  • The US is already deploying advanced anti-virals and other drugs that seem to be working
  • Thanks to Trump the US cut off travel to China early; something Italy didn't do
  • Italy has many more Chinese nationals than the US does due to Italy's economic agreements with China

But let's assume that the US rate does hit 100 per million.  Given a population of 330M that means that 330*100 = 33,000 Americans will die.

That seems to be a huge number but yearly flu deaths range from 12000 to 61000, or more.

What makes the flu worse from a societal perspective is that it kills young productive people and children whereas corona virus mostly kills the elderly.  While the lives of the elderly are just as valuable the reality is that old people dying won't keep the country from producing food--or toilet paper--and won't lead to the collapse of society.

Hence while we all should be responsible in order to protect those who are most vulnerable keep in mind that there's no reason to panic--even if you're elderly because odds are even if you catch the disease you won't die from it.

When the Spanish Flu wreaked havoc in 1918 killing 670,000 Americans, generally younger people, and yet society didn't miss a beat; WWI continued unabated.

The US population in 1918 was 103,000,000 so that means that the death rate was 0.65% or 6,504 per  million.  That's  65 times the worse than what we expect in Italy.

So don't hoard, don't panic, act responsibly to protect those at risk, and pray. But don't panic.