Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness
President Donald Trump has courted endless controversies for promoting nonconventional policies and entertaining contrarian views. From the outset, he oddly seemed to have believed that having navigated the jungles of the Manhattan real estate market—crooked politicians, mercurial unions, neighborhood social activists, the green lobby, leery banks, cutthroat rivals—better prepared him for the job than did a 30-year tenure in the U.S. Senate.
Certainly, candidate and then President Trump’s strident distrust of China was annoying to the American establishment. The Left saw China in rosy terms as the “Other” that just did things like airports, high-speed rail, and solar panels better than did America’s establishment of geriatric white male has-beens. Many on the Right saw China as a cash cow that was going to take over anyway, so why not milk it before the deluge?
In sum, conventional Washington wisdom assumed that appeasing the commercial banditry of an ascendant China, at best might ensure that its new riches led to Westernized political liberalization, and at worst might at least earn them a pat on the head from China as it insidiously assumed its fated role as global hegemon.
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There's certainly a great deal to learn about this issue. I like all the points you have made.
Anecdotal is destroying our nation. We know that Zn-2 halts the replication of virus, but zinc cannot penetrate the cell wall. Chloroquine furnishes a channel that the zinc can use to enter the cell. Once inside the cell, the zinc disrupts the protein that initiates the replication, there bye stopping the action of the virus. If this cocktail would be administered early in the infection, the patient would not need to go to the hospital, and over fifty percent of patients could get well at home. Dr. Fucci, says those studies are anecdotal, and there must be more studies, that would take 18 months, while people die, and the Nation goes to ruin. We don't need more studies, we just need Common sense. This is War, use any weapon you can, Win the War, and get back to work. Tell Trump that he should not listen too much to the graph spouting Dr.s. Chloroquine, and Zinc will win. But, it must be administered quickly, or we will loose.
There is no other way to put this....you sir, are a total f'ing, ass-kissing moron. Every night we get a total sh't show of lies, and deflections as folks die and those on the front lines are "stealing medical supplies out the back door"...but not to worry the rating are great - better than "Survivor". The Truimpworld benchmark of success is now set at 100k - 200k deaths for a virus that was "totally under-control" and a "radical left hoax". And then this drivel....seriously? Anyone with a shred of empathy wants to puke.