Covid-19 and Politics as Usual.

      Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's first Chief of Staff and former mayor of Chicago, once said "never let a crisis go to waste," and the Democrats in Congress thought to do just that with Covid-19.  With millions of Americans out of work, many businesses suffering, American dying,  and President Trump trying to work out a plan to keep the American people and business afloat, the Democrats saw what could be their last chance to get their draconian policies passed into law.  They have already resigned themselves to a Trump reelection and possibly a red tsunami in 2020 and it wouldn't be until at least 2024 that they would have a chance to capture the presidency and both Houses of Congress.  Why not hold the President's plan hostage unless the Republicans agree to the Democrats agenda.  Then when America fails because of it, they can blame it on the Republicans.
      Nancy Pelosi dug deep and hard to come up with a bill more than 2000 pages long.  I guess you have to pass the bill in order find out what's in it.  Republicans have learned from previous experiences to never trust a double dealer like Pelosi and read the bill for themselves.  (After an early Covid-19 intelligence briefing, Pelosi bought $5 million worth of Amazon Stock.  Lets see if she gets investigated for insider trading.) If this bill would have passed, the Democrats could have cancelled their convention, conceded the election and saved their money for 2022 and 2024.  High on the list were Green New Deal related laws such as airlines telling prospective passengers how much greenhouse gases their flight would burn and making airlines carbon neutral by 2024.  Note that none of this applied to private jets that Pelosi and her rich Hollywood and corporate friend fly.  More funding for NPR, PBS, the arts, and Kennedy Center.  What that has to do with anything virus related,  beats me.  It also including more power for union bosses as if that has anything to do with recovery.  There were even very foolish diversity issues for corporate boards and salaries.  Diversity is one of the issues that unfortunately divides us.  We are all Americans first and foremost and I don't care one bit about someone's race, religion, or sexual orientation as long as they are the best one for the job.  Practice diversity in one's private life and be diversity neutral publicly.  I wish job and college applications had no photograph, name, race, and gender but and only grades and experience were part of the application.
      The Republicans have held fast and have forced the Democrats to agree to a plan that has to do with recovery and pretty much pork free except for the arts and Kennedy Center.  Bolshevik Bernie was one of the last to give in, as he threatened a filibuster unless his agenda was put into the bill. A voice vote was called and the Senate bill was passed and  then House finally agreed two days later.

      Meanwhile new cases and deaths continue to accelerate and NYC and adjacent New Jersey cities are the epicenter of the pandemic's effect in The US, with roughly half the cases and deaths.  With the pandemic threatening to out pace facilities, President Trump has had four massive field hospitals constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the USN Comfort has arrived in NYC harbor with its 1000 beds and full medical staff.  It will house and treat non Covid-19 cases. The communist mayor of NYC, de Blasio thanked everyone for all the help NYC is getting, but failed to thank the person that made it all possible, President Donald Trump. I guess haters gotta hate and politicians gotta politicize.  What he didn't do, was can the incompetent Health Commissioner, Oxiris Barbot who initially criticized Trump's initial Chinese travel ban as xenophobic and racist and encouraged people to attend the Annual Chinese Lunar New Year Festival.  It was probably packed with asymptomatic virus shedding Chinese from Wuhan.  Whose gonna notice a few hundred extra Chinese at a Chinese Festival?  Her ineptness is responsible for many deaths in NYC, though you will never hear any public officials say so.  Instead they like to now say, that President Trump didn't react soon enough and draw up ridiculous time lines that prove nothing.  They also blamed the President for not listening to the WHO.  As it turned out the WHO is under the influence of the Chinese via bribes and in an unbelievable statement Tedros Adhanom the WHO secretary first agreed with the false Chinese claim that the virus could not be spread human to human and then said that the Chinese have been very transparent all along.  Huh!!! His corruption  is responsible for deaths all over the world.
       People are now starting to question China's explanation concerning the virus and its origin.  The American Thinker just published an article on 3/31 by Brian C. Joondeph about all of the "coincidences" associated with the pandemic.  These agree with my articles of 3/19 and 3/22.  Maybe he follows my blog.  As I had suggested, it turns out the major Chinese biowarfare lab is located in Wuhan.  This adds even more credence to my suspicions that this was a planned and well thought out attack to destroy our economy as it was obvious to the Chinese that President Trump was too strong to deal with and they would love for a very weak Sleepy Quid Pro Quo Joe to be President. After all they gave his worthless son Hunter and billion dollar bribe.  The reckless and irresponsible Democrat Party Agenda would allow China to quickly overtake America as the number one economic world power.