These are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.
EVERYBODY’S GOT AN ANSWER for how to jump start our economy and put it on a path to recovery and prosperity. “Phased restart of the economy will not work,” writes Robert Robb, editorial columnist with the Arizona Republic.
In reviewing the framework announced by President Trump to open up the economy gradually and in stages, Robb states how Covid-19 measurements will be monitored, and notes that reopening the economy could take place if the virus measurements don’t regress.
“I feel that the economy will remain in the tank unless there is a fundamental change in the public health approach to managing the disease,” he writes, “Which isn’t in the cards.”
As I have covered previously, the president’s virus task force has been in daily contact with the state governors and their state and country health officials in the development of the reopening plan, and each state is now urged to follow their science in making decisions.
Remember the concern people were having that our “all knowing “president would ignore the advice from experts and flip the switch so to speak on the economy? Now there seems to be a concern that their plan to phase-in the states will be a further drag on the economy.
Robb, is concerned that the scientific community isn’t speaking with one voice on Covid-19. Is testing available everywhere as they say? Should we now be wearing a mask? Just how contagious is it? Some people have already had it didn’t know it. What about the most vulnerable in a reopening?
Turning to the gradual reopening, Robb believes it “won’t work economically,” and wonders how businesses, particularly small ones which operate at very small margins even at full capacity.
While he sees unemployment to continue and small business failures, he concedes that “public acceptance of a total shutdown is beginning to erode,” as he explains that hospital s and ICU beds haven’t been overrun, and that danger appears to have passed.
Robb writes of the risk management required, citing that we know each year, tens of millions of Americans will contract the flu, hundreds of thousand will be hospitalized because of it, and tens of thousands will die from it. “Yet we do not shut down our economy and social interaction to prevent those outcomes,” Robb reminds us.
While I have written that I believe people are willing to accept the risks in reopening our economy, Robb feels “it will take a while before people are comfortable resuming their former lives.” He concludes with the recommendation: “Let a free people feel their way back from this.”
I’VE DECIDED to avoid going into the salacious sexual assault charge being brought against Apology Joe Biden by a former staffer because I simply choose not to repeat accounts that I cannot verify. It’s not like the hundreds of photos out there of Biden touching, kissing and fondling women.
(Courtesy of Tom Stiglich)
There are two approaches to the story by the leftist media that I thought you should be aware of, because it again brings out the issue of the double standard.
The Media Research Center noted that CBS and PBS were reluctantly forced to cover the claims of the staffer who accused Biden of sexual assault.
On PBS, the far-left Christiane Amanpour apologetically broached the subject with DNC Chairman Tom Perez, saying, “I need to ask you this, obviously, because it’s a story in the newspapers. How are you going to deal with these allegations? Particularly in the Me-Too World.” Just one minute and 26 seconds in the 13 and half minute interview was devoted to the accusation.
However, Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist challenged New York Times reporter Kate Kelly and Times executive editor Dean Baquet over their judgement on the story in a comparison with their coverage of the accusations against Judge Bret Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh “was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment moment,” tweeted Kelly quoting Baquet.
Hemingway, tweeting @MZHemingway, commented, “NYT reporter who wrote stories & book trying to tarnish reputation of Kavanaugh says she agrees with Dean Baquet that former VP/Senator and presumptive Dem presidential nominee Joe Biden is not a major news figure and his sexual assault allegation is not particularly newsworthy.
While Biden most likely appreciates the TIMES decision not to cover the story, I’m sure he wasn’t pleased with the paper’s assessment that he was not a major news figure.
Ahhh, the leftist media. They just keeping digging a deeper hole for their profession.
MY LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY comes from The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart, a contributor to MSNBC, who tweeted @CapehartJ: “If you’re not watching Rachel Maddow during our Covid-19 nightmare you’re not getting the full picture of what’s happening. That journalism excellence you relied on during Russia & impeachment is in full effect now. Thank you for shining a light in places where we need to focus.”
You have to laugh, because you certainly can’t take him seriously.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
