Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
For better or worse, COVID-19 has become the most important political issue of the 2020 election. And it is very unfortunate that this pandemic has erupted in an election year, because for many of our politicians finger pointing has become much more important than finding solutions. In particular, Democrats seem quite eager to exploit any stumbles by President Trump, and many on the left are absolutely thrilled that Joe Biden’s poll numbers have improved over the past couple of weeks. But if this pandemic rapidly subsides over the next few months and the economy dramatically improves by November, that could potentially be enough to put Trump over the top. The stakes are incredibly high for both sides, many regard this upcoming election as the most important in modern American history, and no quarter will be given as operatives from both parties seek any advantage that they can possibly get.
From the very beginning of his presidency, top Democrats, the mainstream media and activists on the left have usually responded to any stance that Trump has taken by immediately taking the exact opposite position.
If Trump said the sky was blue, they would say it was red. And if Trump said that the sky was red, they would say that it was blue.
This coronavirus pandemic has given us quite a few examples of this phenomenon. When Trump decided that this pandemic was serious enough that travel with China should be shut down, they immediately slammed him for being “racist” and they insisted that he was overreacting.
And when Trump started touting hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment, they immediately started coming up with all sorts of reasons why people should not be taking it.
Whatever Trump does or says, the left instinctively has a negative reaction to it.
In recent days, Trump has encouraged states all over the country to start reopening their economies, and anti-lockdown protests all over America have become very pro-Trump in nature…
Anti-lockdown protests continued to gather momentum across the United States Monday as armed demonstrators waving Trump 2020 flags and ignoring social distancing rules called for America to reopen immediately.
Crowds gathered close to one another in North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California, calling for their ‘liberty’. Armed militia groups protested alongside young families and Americans out of work, all calling for businesses to be reopened.
Meanwhile, those on the left have been loudly denouncing the anti-lockdown protests, they have been arguing that it would be “dangerous” to end the lockdowns too soon, and top Democrats on both coasts are telling us that the lockdowns in their states could last for several more months at least.
And on Monday, a group of 45 “leading thinkers” on the left released a report which warned that reopening the country too soon could cause “a resurgence of COVID-19 that would cost the US economy trillions of dollars”…
In a report titled ‘Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience’ released Monday, more than 45 leading economists, social scientists, lawyers and ethicists warned that sending Americans back to work too quickly will likely cause a resurgence of COVID-19 that would cost the US economy trillions of dollars.
The experts labeled COVID-19 ‘a profound threat to our democracy, comparable to the Great Depression and World War II’ as they outlined the three main components to safely ending quarantine: testing, tracing and supported isolation – a combination known by the acronym TTSI.
So how long do these “leading thinkers” believe that we should extend the lockdowns for?
Well, their report suggests that we will need to be cranking out 20 million tests a day before it will be safe to reopen the entire country…
Test producers will need to deliver 5 million tests per day by early June to safely open parts of the economy by late July, according to the report. To “fully re-mobilize the economy,” the country will need to see testing grow to 20 million a day, the report suggests.
“We acknowledge that even this number may not be high enough,” according to the report.
It is difficult to believe that the authors of that report were serious when they put that in there.
I don’t think that we will ever get to the point where 20 million Americans are being tested per day, and that is certainly not going to happen in 2020.
Needless to say, there is a perverse incentive for those on the left to drag out these lockdowns for as long as possible, because the worse the economy does the harder it is going to be for Trump to win in November.
So whether they are doing it consciously or unconsciously, there seems to be a desire on the left to squeeze as much drama out of this pandemic as they possibly can and to blame Trump for everything that has gone wrong.
I think that one nominee for the biggest drama queen during this crisis so far should be CNN host Brian Stelter. Just check out what he tweeted on Saturday…
“Last night, I hit a wall,” Stelter tweeted on Saturday. “Gutted by the death toll. Disturbed by the govt’s shortcomings. Dismayed by political rhetoric that bears no resemblance to reality. Worried about friends who are losing jobs; kids who are missing school; and senior citizens who are living in fear.”
“I crawled in bed and cried for our pre-pandemic lives,” he said. “Tears that had been waiting a month to escape. I wanted to share because it feels freeing to do so. Now is not a time for faux-invincibility. Journos are living this, hating this, like everyone else. ”
Yes, this pandemic has been a great tragedy, but as I pointed out yesterday it isn’t the end of the world.
Life will go on, and as long as our hospitals are not being overwhelmed, we need to let people get back to work.
But most Democratic governors are not willing to even consider such a move yet, because ending the lockdowns now would be seen as an admission that Trump and the anti-lockdown protesters were right.
Plus, many of them realize that ending the lockdowns “too quickly” could give Trump a boost in November.
So even though some conservative states such as Georgia are moving very quickly to lift their “shelter-in-place” orders, many liberal states are going to drag their lockdowns out for as long as they think they can.
All of this is extremely unfortunate, because our approach to this pandemic should have nothing to do with political considerations.
But these days virtually everything in America has taken on a political tone, and that is only going to intensify the closer we get to election day.
via zerohedge
Congress pay specially the democracts to be frozen let them go without a paycheck and a job, let’s see how they get with no money coming in. Congress and the media needs to be shut down without pay. These democracts need to start being locked up they are not for this country and should not be getting paid. I’m hoping the democracts lose big and they start to get locked up
I wish Trump would call out Fausi on all his bullshit. He is on a video on Feb 29th adressing the CDC and says this is nothing worse than a bad cold or mild flu. Then he turns right around and says we need to shut the country down. He is a Killary advocate and is going to do what ever the Dumbocraps ask him to do. He keeps saying we need to wait for a vaccine. Why when there has been ful shots for 20+ yrs the flu still had almost double of deaths just in 2019 and averages right around 50K every year. Why havent they ever shut down then?? Obummers swine flu had around 200K deaths and i dont remember it even being on the news. This is just another Dumbocrap smoke show to try and discredit Trump since their FAKE IMPEACHMENT failed.
I agree this is far too much political crap.
There are areas in this country by counties that can open a blanket 1 size fits all will not work.
Trump needs to get better advisers.
My heart goes out to everyone that is suffering
Either through illness or financial issues.
Hopefully people will remember in November.
If Trump had listened to his National Security advisers in December and January instead of WHO (or Hannity), he could have initiated an appropriate response to the pandemic saving tens of thousands of lives and which would resulted in our opening up now, kids going to schools, shops opening up. We know that because there are other countries that did appropriately respond and kids are going to be school now. This colossal failure by Trump is properly being vilified. It is not that “Democrats seem quite eager to exploit any stumbles by President Trump”. In fact the opposite, we all wish there had been no stumbles, fervently.
It’s an irony. If Trump had timely and properly responded to the pandemic, businesses would be opening up now and he would have his economy back on track. It’s a tragic irony that the seeds of his failure to get the economy back were the result of his own actions.
It is ALL about politics! Demos are dumbos! They do not care about the economy. They want the country to crash and burn and destroy most small to medium businesses..they everyone will need to crawl to government for free handouts…thus they will claim the need to skyrocket taxes! 📈
I wish the demonrats could be exterminated for what they have done to this country since Trump was elected.
I am convinced everything we have experienced in the last few years is all by design, to take Trump down; including the Wuhan Virus shutdown.
The evidence is everywhere. The virus may or may not have been ‘planned’, but the demons sure took advantage of it. And, they did swear they would make us pay for electing Trump.
We have too many dummycrat citizens depending on the evil demonrats for ‘parenting’ (emotional and physical support). They blindly vote for any demonrat just to keep their freebies, and the hope of casting their evil lifestyles in stone. They think that they need new laws to be free, when there are already laws that allow them whatever beliefs or life they wish; but they want their new laws to force EVERYONE to be like them. They’re afraid of being individuals. Group-think. Herd-mentality.
The demons say Trump will kill millions, but it is the demons themselves who are killing. They can’t help it. Their self-indulgencies and self-aggrandizing won’t let them stop vying for power. They will do anything to get their way, even destroy themselves in the end. If they can’t get what they want, no one will have anything. Like spoiled children on the playground.
We will end up in another physical civil war, where people will be dying in the streets.
The anti-gunners will depend upon the evil corrupt government to save them with their ‘lawful’ guns. The conservatives who believe in the Constitution will need to enact guerilla-tactics like they did in the first war, with England; where English soldiers assumed everyone would respect the ‘art’ of combat designed by a draconian government. They assumed their might would prevail.
The demon governors and local mayors are showing us what we can expect, with all their draconian mandates during this ‘pandemic’. They are drunk on the power-high.
I say open everything up and rip the Band-Aid off. Let herd-immunity commence.
The whole nation has been exposed to the Wuhan Virus, and there is more and more evidence of that factor coming out every day. Trump’s “advisors” keep re-adjusting their knowledge and advice — which shows they gave advice in the first place to hamper his economy and successes.
We have 350 Million people on this continent, and only about 46 thousand deaths (as of 6 minutes ago) from the Wuhan Virus. That’s still less than what would normally occur in a typical year during influenza season. We have SO MANY other things that kill us every day that no one even notices anymore. The fear-mongering over this new viral strain is just a smokescreen.
The lockdown was orchestrated by the demons, and they are desperate to hold on to the euphoric power-high.
Grab your bug-outs, oil the guns, and stock up on ammo.
I say let all the Trump supporters go back to work, and we will see what happens, if they have to go back to work let them go!!! If these people infect anybody and that person dies, take them to court and sue them, and then charge them with manslaughter!! If they are all good with that, let them go to work!
So, you would rather see people starve, businesses destroyed, lives destroyed, and the economy shattered just to hurt Trump?