Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Whatever we eventually call it, there is a coronavirus “project.”
Chemotherapy
It’s a race to identify the origins, nature, and danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the best way to treat, vaccinate against, and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 disease — all without destroying America to save it.
However the Corona Project is defined, it remains different from all previous existential American efforts. We are not building any new weapon or infrastructure or deliberately adopting a radical new policy. Much less are Americans fighting a visible enemy, poverty, or just bad habits.
Instead, we are giving ourselves massive social and economic chemotherapy to weaken or retard the virus within us before our massive therapeutic shutdown kills the U.S. economy — a sort of neutron bomb that destroys human interaction without incinerating visible infrastructure. In other words, we the patient apparently must be sickened to the point of near death in order to survive the disease.
It is certainly difficult to compare similar American mass efforts in the past. Their costs are murky — and not just because of inadequate record keeping, the adjustment of prior dollars to current time and inflation, or the need to consider the relationship between lives and money. In addition, the tab for past “wars on” something or other (e.g., alcohol, illiteracy, smoking, poverty, drugs, etc.) usually rippled out for years, both positively and negatively.
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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED from our experience with the COVID-19 virus? WE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED the following: • The CCP's (Chinese Communist Party) lies and actions were responsible for letting the coronavirus grow in Wuhan and then be taken all around the world by Chinese New Year visitors, as they returned to their homes around the world. • The WHO (World Health Organization) helped the CCP promote the lie that the coronavirus was NOT transmissible, when they knew it was transmissible. • The Chinese people are NOT responsible for the COVID-19 virus pandemic, BUT their rulers (the CCP) are. • The Chinese people do not have any power. Remember the CCP throttled Dr. Li when he tried to warn people. • As soon as the WHO admitted the virus was transmissible, President Trump closed the USA to people coming from China and the Democrat party accused President Trump of racism. • Currently the Democrat party is blaming President for not closing the border sooner and not closing it also to Chinese who were American citizens. • 60% of the members of the Democratic party believe that President Trump is more responsible for our problems with the COVID-19 virus than the CCP is. • In all the countries around the world that are fighting the COVID-19, no one blames President Trump for the virus except 60% of the American Democrats. • The most important thing we should have learned is to NEVER TRUST THE CCP. • Perhaps we should have also learned that although Bill Gates claimed for several years to be concerned about possible pandemics coming, his own state was totally unprepared for COVID-19 virus. • Now that we are fighting the COVID-19 virus pandemic, Bill Gates claims that we should not be trying to determine the origin of the virus, because he thinks that would “distract” from the efforts to fight the virus. Knowing where the virus came from seems KEY in fighting it and perhaps key to stopping a future virus from coming from the same place. It is important to know if the virus came from a CCP virus lab or from the Wuhan wet market. • Perhaps it is also important to know that Bill Gates may not want the public to know where the virus originated.
Hey Vic....a suggestion for your next article. Merkel vs The Donald.....both style and substance...and RESULTS. Conclusion is obvious......calamity voided (mostly) vs gross malfeasance.. Then imagine instead of finding ways to defend your boy...picture Obama slinging the BS every night. Your head will explode.
I always find it interesting how Old Vic can write such long-winded dissertations that have one real purpose - defend at all cost THE DONALD and deflect any and all responsibility elsewhere. While Vic does show real skill in his writing ability at the end of the day the "logic" is design to to illuminate but to obscure. Whatever China did or did not do it was all clear by very early in January and Vic's boy in the WH was just too stupid to understand and conduct a nightly show of deflection and lies. Reference - New Zealand, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland..we are in the shape we are in because we have a moron in the WH...and moron who old Vic, sitting of 5th Avenue, defends no matter what. Sad, so dad..and totally pathetic.