Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Where has the coronavirus gone?
Nowhere. The pandemic has gained a second wind, even as it is mysteriously scarcer in post-election headlines. If anything, COVID-19 seems more contagious as cold temperatures arrive, people stay in indoors, and perhaps their vitamin D levels taper off.
Whatever one’s views on the virus — whether it remains an existential threat or, contrarily, prompts overreactive lockdowns that are more harmful and maybe even deadlier than the virus itself — nothing much has changed since Election Day.
Or did viral perceptions suddenly change? The pandemic certainly no longer serves as an election lever to demagogue President Trump as a veritable killer.
States such as California are under a nearly complete lockdown. Draconian measures will abbreviate Thanksgiving gatherings in a way unprecedented in U.S. history. Yet elites such as California’s Governor Gavin Newsom and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) have violated the quarantines they themselves have endorsed.
Huge fan VDH and I will always read your material anywhere now except NR. They’ve taken a step too far in trashing Trump AND his supporters with the editorial I’ve copied below. I get it that they have never appreciated Trumpisim or those that follow him……I get that. But once again to openly agitate his followers that perhaps read Breitbart, another journalistic outlet that NR looks down the nose towards has finally become too much for this reader. As I state, I am and will always be a fan, however I in good conscience cannot offer a single knowing “click” towards NR. Respectfully, Miles Dee – Grand Junction, CO
“The Rudy Giuliani–led press conference at the RNC yesterday was the most outlandish and irresponsible performance ever by a group of lawyers representing a president of the United States.
If Giuliani’s charge of a “national conspiracy” to produce fraudulent votes in Democratic cities around the country wasn’t far-fetched enough, attorney Sidney Powell ratcheted it up with the allegation that Communist-designed election machinery was used to change the vote from a Trump landslide to a narrow Biden victory.”
This is lawyering worthy of the comments section of Breitbart News.