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Corona-Virus


Before I get serious, I want to quell a rumor that is being spread among liberals: “No, the corona-virus has nothing to do with the Mexican beer!”

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) just had a long article on the coronaviruses (HCoVs), and much of what follows is from that review article:

“HCoVs have long been considered inconsequential pathogens, causing little more than the common cold. However, in the 21st century, 2 highly pathogenic HCoVs—severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)—emerged from animal reservoirs to cause global epidemics with alarming morbidity and mortality. In December 2019, yet another pathogenic HCoV, 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was recognized in Wuhan, China. On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, most of which included patients who reported exposure to a large seafood market selling many species of live animals.

The situation with 2019-nCoV is evolving rapidly, with the case count currently growing into the thousands. Human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV occurs, is evidenced by the infection of 15 health care practitioners in a Wuhan hospital.” Most recently in Chicago the coronavirus was spread to a spouse living in the same household as a known case. The extent, if any, to which such transmission might lead to a sustained epidemic remains an open and critical question. 

Without question this strain of coronavirus has caused serious illnesses  and deaths. Again from JAMA: “While the trajectory of this outbreak is impossible to predict, effective response requires prompt action from the standpoint of classic public health strategies to the timely development and implementation of effective countermeasures.”

As would be expected, President Trump is concerned about this ongoing and  changing situation, and has been being briefed daily. Earlier in the week, Trump tweeted photos of a briefing session where he received updates on the coronavirus situation. “We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments,” the President said in his post. “We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!”

This, of course, is exactly what I would expect from a concerned national leader . . . and predictably CNN responded to the photos in its expected way!  One of the anti-Trump clowns from CNN . . . (sorry I did not mean to offend any real clowns) . . . as I was saying, a clown from CNN immediately compared Trump’s briefing photos to some photos from an Obama meeting during the Ebola situation many years ago. The comment from CNN basically chastised President Trump because his briefing was inadequate on their diversity scale. In other words the photo did not show their expected quorum of blacks and women. President Trump emphasized that he was consulting with experts from across the U.S., while in the Obama photo Susan Rice was positioned near the head of the table. Yes, the same Susan Rice, who went on multiple TV programs telling an outright lie, attempting to cover up the Obama administration’s incompetence during the Benghazi episode. Yes, the same Susan Rice, who was advertised to be a Foreign Policy expert, and who served as Obama’s National Security Advisor from 2013-2017, but, who as best as I can tell, has zero expertise in medicine, much less in infectious diseases! Yes, she is black, and she is a female, which is thus apparently sufficient to satisfy CNN’s diversity quotient. However, did she know anything about Ebola, other than what she had read in Newsweek?

The Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro summed up CNN’s outrageous position when he asked, “So just to get this straight, CNN is objecting to a task force designed to stop an epidemic by focusing on…ethnic diversity?” 

( Perhaps Mr. Shapiro is being too harsh on CNN, as he is assuming that CNN is a competent news agency to start with. “Your expectations for CNN are way too high, Mr. Shapiro.”)

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