These are my observations and opinions from my selected news of the day.

THEN AND NOW – In my research I learned that during the H1N1 virus of 2009,  President Obama didn’t impose travel bans, schools were not closed, our favorite sport leagues didn’t cancel their seasons, concerts and Broadway shows were not cancelled, and our restaurants and bars weren’t told to close.  And there wasn’t a sudden demand for toilet paper.

Even though we were in the middle of a recession, the Obama administration didn’t take the threat seriously enough to make the tough decisions to reduce the rate of infection.  And the left-leaning media didn’t criticize the president for his inaction or mishandling of the crisis.

As I reported earlier, President Obama didn’t declare an emergency until four months after the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic.  A thousand Americans had died at that point.

When the pandemic was over, there were over 60 million cases of H1N1 in the U.S. alone, with 274,304 hospitalizations, and 12,249 deaths due to H1N1.

YES, TODAY we are enduring the closures and the changes in our life style with a president who really cares about the health and safety of Americans, despite a critical media that wants him to fail.  Stay strong. Keep the faith.

SENATE PASSES FIRST OF VIRUS AID BILLS – Called the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, it was passed by a vote of 90-8 on Wednesday. By the time you read this, details of the bill will have been communicated to the public.

Meanwhile, the Senate is now working on another, broader stimulus package to help Americans who have been physically or financially impacted by the pandemic.

MARK MY WORDS – On Wednesday, the president announced that he had ordered our two hospital ships to be deployed; one to New York and the other most likely to San Francisco.  They do not move that fast.  In a few days, expect the media to ask why the ships have not yet arrived.

WAIT! WHAT? CNN DID WHAT? – The Media Research Center, the watchdog over the news industry, was stunned yesterday over the praise CNN voiced for President Trump following his latest virus press conference.

During the networks broadcast of Inside Politics, hosted by John King, CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash offered this unfettered, rare praise for the president’s leadership:

If you look at the big picture, this was remarkable from the president of the United States.  This is a non-partisan, this is an important thing to note and applaud from an American standpoint, from a human standpoint.  He’s being the kind of leader that people need at least in tone today and yesterday.  In tone that people need and want and yearn for in times of crisis and uncertainty.

The MRC reported that King, and the other members of his panel, seemed stunned by what the president had to say and the measures the government was taking to help protect people.  King “managed to offer this tepid compliment,” saying, “That was a president who seemed much more upon the brief today that he has been in the past.  For most of that briefing, the president went out of his way to be more gracious and magnanimous.”

MEANWHILE, OVER ON MSNBC, Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor and current legal analyst, tweeted  @glennkirschner2 that “Donald Trump may have criminal exposure for some level of negligent homicide or voluntary/involuntary manslaughter for the way he’s handled the Coronavirus crisis.”

“Kirschner’s accusations are baseless and absurd, make no mistake about it,” writes Matt Margolis of PJ Media, who informs his readers that “Kirschner is a known anti-Trumper, and is part of the mob trying to sway the public into believing that Trump has botched the response to the Coronavirus.”

MORE ON BIDEN’S MOVE TO THE RADICAL LEFT – In recent weeks I have told you how Apology Joe Biden voiced his willingness to see thousands of energy employees lose their jobs in favor of protecting the environment under the Green New Deal.

In view of the widespread drilling and fracking industry across the nation, with its thousands of blue-collar workers, I questioned whether Biden really was in the campaign to win.  After all, these are the people he appeals to regularly.

We used to see this industry making a home in states like Texas and Oklahoma, however, in Stephen Moore’s Washington Examiner magazine piece, “Biden and Bernie to Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia: Drop dead,” he lists his energy powerhouse states, that includes Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, providing more than eight million oil and energy jobs with wages totaling $580 billion.

Moore notes that truck drivers can easily earn more than $100,000 a year.

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. has become energy independent, and while the industry is now struggling as OPEC and Russia have caused the price per barrel to dip below $30, this is viewed as a temporary hiccup.

HE WANTED TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT – Money bags Michael Bloomberg, who spent more than $500 million on publicity to support his candidacy for the Democrat nomination for president with the slogan – “Mike will get it done” – says he’s putting up $40 million to combat the Wuhan Virus abroad.  He plans to focus on Africa, not America.

Thanks a lot, Mike.  We’ll beat this virus thing and continue to Keep America Great with or without you, with a president who is getting it done.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP – I read that Baltimore’s Mayor Jack Young has urged his residents to put down their guns and heed orders to stay home.  After multiple people were shot Tuesday night amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, he said that the hospital beds are needed to treat those who have tested positive to the virus, not for senseless violence.

Apparently seven people were shot in Baltimore’s Madison Park neighborhood, as the city’s fifth positive virus case was reported.

               May God continue to bless the United States of America.