Red and Blue America Aren’t Experiencing the Same Pandemic

A flurry of new national polls released this week reveals that while anxiety about the Chinese Coronavirus is rising on both sides of the partisan divide, Democrats consistently express much more concern about it than Republicans do, and as our betters they are much more likely to claim they have changed their personal behavior as a result.

A similar gap separates people who live in large metropolitan centers, which have become the base of the Democratic electoral, are more dependent on government services (i.e. transportation), and are less likely to be independent and self-sufficient, from those who live in the small towns and rural patriotic America. Democrats tend to be sorrowful, less optimistic people, hand-wringing not only about the virus, but what we call the virus.

The feeling increasingly is that experts and the media are all part of this elite class that is self-dealing and is looking down on less-educated and less-fortunate people, and they can’t be trusted to tell the truth.  It's inarguable that the left has a never-ending, overlapping set of constantly evolving catastrophes that they peddle non-stop. It's their primary means of obtaining power. And lets not forget that the left was praying for something like this to go wrong under Trump. In their passion to damage him they ignored the damage they were asking for all of us. These people will not miss an opportunity to rock their anti-Trump and anti-Republican hobbyhorses.

It's an epidemiological fact that big cities are more at risk for this type of pandemic, and media complaining Republicans are celebrating it is false, much more false than those on the left we have *witnessed* openly cheering the economic disruption and possible death of "older people who skew Republican" merely because it may improve their electoral chances.

It's in the nature of political writing and reporting to dramatize, and the rewards in the internet era are entirely on the side of hysterical dramatization.  The past 20 years of internet driven panic and hysteria have dramatically lowered the public opinion of media, writers and artists in general. In the liberal community, these professions are generally seen as caring and driven by the desire to educate. But that's seldom true.  Those professions are mostly home to reckless drama queens determined to advance their personal ambitions with dramatic presentations. And, most of those, entertainers and artists in particular aren't very smart.  The emotionally self-indulgent are naturally inclined to be irrational.

* Obama Waited Until 'Millions' Infected and 1000 Dead in U.S. Before Declaring H1N1 National Emergency

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Today in Chinese Coronavirus Craziness

There have been 3 White House Press briefings this week. This is the first tweet from CNN's lead White House correspondent over the duration of these daily press conferences. This is the guy and network who shouted from the rooftops about no WH press briefings. https://t.co/VLW1nH3zU3

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 19, 2020

The tiny cable channel @OANN can do whatever it wants. What it chose to do today – is shameful.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 19, 2020

Funny how the Left is now freaking out over OANN reporter Chanel Rion asking the president if he thinks the term "Chinese food" is racist.

She's just holding a mirror up to your face. She's literally showing you what you look like, and you're offended. lol.

— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) March 19, 2020

Your network has put Anthony Scaramucci on the air 3 times this week as an expert on biological contagions and pandemics.https://t.co/WvuxZnmCIA

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 19, 2020

Nobody watching CNN now that airports are empty lol

— Conservative Cam (@quillacam) March 19, 2020

*One* question about how major media outlets are peddling Chinese propaganda talking points (which they are), and the media is breathlessly spiraling into anger. https://t.co/gRUmQyhTES

— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) March 19, 2020

  

Don't have any idea who most of theses people are in the vid below,  but my guess they're restless entertainment industry attention whores....

#Imagine you have finally corralled every person who has ever wronged you into one room. #Imagine you have amphitheater-level speakers in that room. Imagine you can shed your ethical ambivalence and you play this video. On a loop. Until they die. #Imagine. pic.twitter.com/ZJ7IgHUWCx

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 19, 2020

Does chloroquine get "Imagine" out of your head

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 19, 2020

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Baltimore Mayor Implores Residents to Stop Shooting Each Other For Awhile. " We're Gonna Need The Beds"

In a sad commentary on the majority black cities of America, Wednesday Baltimore Mayor Jack Young had to take to the podium to pleaded with residents to stop shooting each other so that the city's limited number of hospital beds could be better used. "I want to reiterate how completely unacceptable the level of violence is that we have seen recently. We will not stand for mass shootings and an increase in crime." Baltimore has seen an uptick in violence since last week that included a shooting Tuesday night resulting in seven victims transported to hospitals in serious condition.

"We cannot clog up our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we're going to need those beds for people infected with the coronavirus."

Ironically, despite the increased violence, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has taken action to suspend criminal prosecution in the city in order to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spread. Mosby ordered her staff Wednesday to drop pending criminal charges against anyone who has been arrested for charges including drug possession and prostitution, green lighting the very type of crimes that breed the violent street underworld that is doing the shootings. The actions taken by the two city officials appears to send a mixed message. The city is calling for an end to violent crime while at the same time announcing that there will be no punishment for it. And I'm sure coronavirus is high on the list of importance for the cities territorial pavement apes.

Some things are just so self-evidently imbecilic that they don't even deserve the effort to put forth a full and proper snark.

[WJZ Baltimore]
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WAPO - Okay Okay Fine, DJT Didn't Dissolve the Pandemic Response Team Like We Said After All.

For weeks now, the anti-Trump media has been beating their drum and saying the White House used to have a “pandemic response team” and that DJT in a fit of stupidity got rid of it. Because hey, we never have pandemics! Who needs them?  This has been shouted thousands of times over the course of the past weeks by the soft skulls on the tweeter, from major newspapers to fake cable news networks, and in every Democrat campaign rally.

It turns out this story originated with an op-ed in the Washington Post written by one Elizabeth Cameron, who ran the White House pandemic office under Barky Obama. Some sort of change was made to her former domain when the Trump Administration took over and Cameron was apparently butthurt DJT touched it. So she fired the off a shot that Democrats and their media leg humpers have been riffing off ever since.

Just One Problem: It’s not true.....

Silly Rabbit. Very few elements of government are ever disbanded, and it always seems a little suspect to believe that had happened in this case. What does happen, just like in the business world is that areas of responsibility are shifted, the names of things are changed and sometimes resources are redirected. Sometimes an independent entity is deemed better housed in a more established agency, not “disbanded” or “dissolved”, just moved down the hall or changed form. Happens all the time. 

Tim Morrison, former senior director for counter-proliferation and bio-defense on the National Security Council, felt compelled to offer the Post a rebuttal piece. Morrison was there and knew exactly what happened, and while I’m sure they were reluctant to do it, the Post allowed Morrison to correct the record:

"It is true that the Trump administration has seen fit to shrink the NSC staff. But the bloat that occurred under the previous administration clearly needed a correction. 

As The Post reported in 2015, from the Clinton administration to the Obama administration’s second term, the NSC’s staff “had quadrupled in size, to nearly 400 people.” That is why Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017. One such move at the NSC was to create the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, which was the result of consolidating three directorates into one. 

It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented. If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled."

SO,  the pandemic response team wasn’t dissolved at all. It was reorganized to be more efficient and allow the true experts to have a clearer path to offer their expertise to the president. The Elizabeth Cameron piece that started this whole narrative was either a complete lie or the work of a person who didn’t know as much as she thought she did about what was really going on. Either way it should have been fact-checked. 

So now that the record has been corrected does anyone really think the original narrative is going to fade away? Do you really think Democrats are going to stop running around claiming DJT “dissolved the pandemic response team” just because it’s patently false? Of course they won’t, which is why it’s irresponsible for the Washington Post to public claims like this in the first place.

They allowed a disgruntled former Obama official to publish a baseless hit piece, and that created a narrative that will long outlast the correction of the record they published yesterday. This is how nonsense takes hold in our political discourse. A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on. Especially when the media are willing to help give the lie a head start

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