The Chinese Flu War
Have you managed to watch the Chinese Flu daily briefing given by the President and the rest of his team? I try to listen every day. I appreciate everything the President is doing and am glad that he acted as early as he did when he banned travel from China. There is no way to know how much worse it would be for us had he not acted so quickly. It is clear to me that President Trump, the man who has put Americans first in every one of his policies is doing everything possible within his abilities as a human being to protect all Americans.
The briefings can be very annoying though. The most annoying part of the briefing for me is the question and answer period in which questions from reporters basically fall into four categories….good, stupid, belligerent or not needed. Everyone knows what a good question is so I will focus on the other three.
Let’s start with those not needed. I wish that reporters would listen to the answers given by those at the briefing, because they will probably hear the answer to the question they were going to ask. If the question a reporter wants to ask has already been asked and answered, why waste everyone’s time by asking it again? Ask something different or just sit there in blissful silence that we all can enjoy.
Next are the belligerent questions. Since the news media is full of left wing loons, you can always count on the questions that are really leftist commentary cloaked as a question. Such as the one asked by one reporter who just wanted to ridicule President Trump for using the term Chinese Flu or Chinese Virus, claiming that it is racist to do so. Even a national emergency cannot escape the race industry of the Left. President Trump didn’t back down one iota, and even re-iterated it. Prior to Trump, any other Republican would have wilted at that question and promptly changed his ways.
Lastly, the stupid questions, which can double as belligerent ones which are designed not to expose incompetence, but to create the appearance of it. For instance it seems that reporters can’t get it into their thick skulls that those in the federal government can’t just wiggles their noses or cross their arms and nod their heads and make ventilators appear out of thin air. Ventilators are a complex piece of equipment, they are not like stamping a cooking pot out of a flat piece of metal in which hundreds or thousands can be produced daily. It takes time, and President Trump and his advisers have made that fact perfectly clear.
This thing we are experiencing now has been described, I think justifiably so, as a war. There hasn’t been a time since World War II that the entire country has been called to action. When the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, the United State military was paltry at best. We did not have all of the equipment and manpower needed to carry out a war of that magnitude. We however had the American spirit, ingenuity and the economic system needed to create a military that was everything we needed.
It is the responsibility of each State, a PT boat, to be the first responder, and it is the responsibility of the Federal Government, a battleship, to provide as much assistance as possible. A PT boat is nimble, a battleship is not, and that is just a fact of life. Everyone must understand the system in order for the system to work to its full capabilities. We created a juggernaut to deal with World War II. We can do the same in this war.