As we speak, President Trump is speaking to the media, part of his
daily Wuhan coronavirus presser, where he stresses that the country
needs to re-open. He’s right. In four to six weeks, some businesses
might be wiped out. American workers are hurting. And there isn’t enough
bailout money that can keep the enormity of the US economy afloat. It
needs people to shop. It needs activity. It needs to re-open.
The Washington Postreported
that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with FEMA,
is drafting a blueprint for a phased-in re-opening of the American
economy, and President Trump wants something soon so he can make
recommendations to some states. Schools and daycares are at the top of
the list concerning the first phase of re-openings but stressed that
some areas might have to wait longer until a vaccine or some level of
communal immunity is reached.
There is absolutely no accountability for the Democrats. Power without law
Hunter Biden received wall-to-wall media coverage and praise from his
father, former Vice President Joe Biden, in October when he announced
he would resign from the board of a Chinese private equity firm by the
end of the month.
But six months after Hunter Biden pledged to relinquish his position
with BHR Partners, no evidence has surfaced to prove he actually
followed through on his promise.
Op-ed: Politics, New York, and the Truth About Masks and Gloves By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio
Threats, accusations, and misplaced words of panic continue to be
spewed from the mouths of Democrats while our country is in the midst
of not just a medical crisis but an economic and governmental one as
well.
And to that affect House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has alluded that she
might extend the House's official return to session even longer than
the April 20th scheduled return date, and that she may not call the
House back to session until well into mid-May or beyond. In other
words, once again the job these folks were elected to do...as in “the
people's business”...will not get done while they sit home
doing nothing but collecting their just raised paychecks and maybe
watching a little TV.
Talk about adding fuel to the fire of our country's current woes.
Now add in that Pelosi and her fellow Democrats continue, as I
write this, to hold up the monies allocated for small businesses as
per President Trump's CARES Act stimulus package. And couple that
with last Thursday's warning by Ms. Pelosi that President Trump best
keep the country under stay-at-home orders for even longer than he
originally planned and that not to do so could further send the U.S.
economy into a tailspin as secondary infections take hold...secondary
infections that have yet to be proven will happen...making her words
just another orchestrated call to panic. And besides, if ever there
was anybody holding the economy at bay it's Pelosi and the Democrats
holding up the above stated small business monies, and they're doing
so simply because they feel there's not enough “pork” in
the current stimulus package...partisan politics at its very worst.
And while said holdup is ongoing, Pelosi and her economic task
force are drafting yet another coronavirus relief package, a package
to be introduced on the Congressional floor when Congress returns
from its now appearing to be extended recess. A fourth relief package
that will likely for the foreseeable future also be denied the
American people as Pelosi holds Congress and our country hostage to
her whims and ways while ignoring the fact that President Trump has
created an economic recovery task force of his own...a task force
comprised of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House Chief of
Staff Mark Meadows, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow,
and other learned administration officials. Tasked with studying both
general economic issues and the return to work time frame, this task
force will make recommendations to President Trump on when to reopen
the economy based not upon partisan politics but upon what is in the
best interest of our country as well as on what is best for the
health, safety, and welfare of the American people. And they'll do so
while Nancy Pelosi continues to delude herself into thinking that
it's she who will decide when it's safe to go back to work, that is
after she decides when it's the right time to lift the stay-at-home
guidelines currently in place.
Laughingly, Ms. Pelosi's delusions of self-importance are not
unlike Joe Biden thinking that come November he can beat President
Trump.
And delusional is also a moniker that can just as
easily be worn by New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo, a man who
relishes in giving multi-million dollar companies tax breaks yet
blames President Trump for both New York's current financial crisis
and for its now being the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. How quickly
Cuomo ignores the fact that it was he and his liberal policies that
caused most of New York's financial and coronavirus woes.
How so? Elected in 2011, Andrew Cuomo, the man who
dares to criticize President Trump's handling of the COVID-19
pandemic, is the very same governor who for years has been warned
about critical health care and emergency room shortages in New York's
hospitals yet willingly chose to remain silent about said shortages.
And that's coupled with the fact that it was Andrew Cuomo himself,
who just five years ago, callously passed on the chance to purchase
16,000 ventilators...ventilators that in total would have cost the
state less than $600 million...a purchase that would have been but
0.4 percent of New York's total 2015-2016 budget.
So where did the governor choose instead to spend New
York's money? How about that Cuomo allocated $2.3+ billion for
ambiguous “economic development projects” as well as
funding “social issue” causes...which together laid the
foundation for New York's current monetary crisis... and that he did so
while ignoring repeated requests from Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for
the state to be ready in case a serious medical emergency arose.
Stressing that time was of the essence and that New York must be
ready before such an emergency occurred, DiNapoli strongly suggested
putting in place both better safeguards against such a scenario as
well as creating a reserve fund that could be used if such an
emergency did occur. Yet Cuomo chose to ignore DeNapoli's requests,
and as a result the people of New York are paying for the governor's
willfully negligent choices, and sadly many are paying with their
lives.
And to add insult to the injury Cuomo has caused New
Yorkers, as per The New York Post, New York State already adds a 9.6
percent surcharge to hospital bills paid for by the patient...as in
“penalizing the patient for getting sick”...while
employers covering insurance costs are hit with an extra fee
determined in the form of an in-person assessment. And when added
together these charges allow New York to garner about $5 billion for
the state, "making such a fee the third-largest source of
revenue after income and sales taxes," again
according to the The New York Post.
And yet New York State is still broke thanks to Gov.
Cuomo's misguided, mismanaged, and wasteful “fluff”
spending on things like retiling two city tunnels with the state's
blue-and-gold color theme instead of doing much-needed structural
repairs, and placing 500 totally useless "I Love New York"
signs along the state's highways. And let's not forget this is the
governor who also allocated $30 million for college tuition for
illegals when those very monies could have and should have been spent
on ventilators and other needed medical equipment as per Comptroller
Thomas DiNapoli's request.
So while Andrew Cuomo continues to whine about what he
perceives to be New York's disproportional amount of federal funding
in relation to the number of COVID-19 cases in his state, this
self-serving little man has no one to blame but himself for New
York's current coronavirus woes as he could have spent the state's
monies on much needed medical supplies and equipment as he was
advised to do, but instead chose to spend money on things of little
to no importance. Now also blaming President Trump for what he claims
is the administration's complete dropping of the ball on the lack of
warnings issued concerning the seriousness of the virus, the
precautions needed to slow the spread of the virus, and also on what
he says is still being delayed testing, what Cuomo ignores is the
actual logistics of the virus itself, but more importantly why
certain precautions do not and will not work in slowing COVID-19's
spread no matter the untruths the media states as fact.
But first let's start with the only
thing that actually helps stop the virus' spread...as in “social
distancing.” Simply,
all “social distancing” means is not getting in each
others faces or “space” while one is sick or feeling like
one is getting sick. Common sense advice indeed but where common
sense takes the proverbial left turn is when it deviates into
unneeded panic. And while we're being advised to stay inside our
homes and that if we must venture out to stay at least six feet away
from the nearest person while wearing a paper or surgical mask and
disposable gloves, the fact is that it's only “social
distancing” itself that works in stopping COVID-19's spread.
How so...by denying the virus a needed host upon which to create its
havoc.
Viruses are strange entities indeed for
their goal is not to kill its host but to live and replicate within
its host. A dead host does not serve a virus well for when its host
dies the virus dies too. What's needed in regards to
COVID-19...besides life-saving treatments...is for natural immunity
to build up both in a given host and in the general population so
that our immune system can contain and keep the virus in check or at
least tone down its appearance, which can only be done through
exposure. Remember, exposure to a virus does not always cause
illness...in fact most times we don't even know that we've been
exposed to any given virus.
Also, remember that thousands of
bacteria and viruses live within us and cause no harm at all either
because we ourselves, via our immune system, keeps them in check or a
vaccine does so via a targeted response to a specific pathogen. And
whether the anti-vac folks like it or not the fact is that vaccines have saved
countless millions of lives while endangering but a few in
comparison. And in time a vaccine against COVID-19 will help do so as well.
Now as for masks and gloves...the “feel
like we're doing something” protections against COVID-19...a
virus that's absorbed only through mucus membranes. Let's start first
with masks. What most don't know is that surgical masks are not meant
as a defense against illness for the one wearing the surgical mask
but to protect the sterile field of surgical procedures as well as
protect the surgeon from blood splatters. And in regards to paper
masks, what's forgotten is that the COVID-19 virus...100 million of which can fit on the head of a pin...can pass through or enter from around gaps in paper
masks, and that unseen droplets from a sneeze or cough can not only pass through such a mask but out of it as well. Simply, paper masks and
even self-made cloth masks offer its wearer little protection from viruses or
from its wearer spreading a virus to another. And why...because these types of masks are
flimsy porous barriers at best...they are not filter masks nor are they respirator masks.
A true respirator mask...like the ones firemen
wear when going into a fire...has its wearer breathing in
only self-contained air not the outside air coming in from around gaps in the paper
type masks or air passing through the paper masks themselves. And know that there is not enough air within a paper or a
cloth mask so one must breathe in through their mask outside air...air that could be
virus or bacterial infected. Again, the masks we see people wearing
are not respirator masks let alone filter masks but simple, for the most part, ineffective barriers
which offer little if any true virus and bacterial protection.
And this can be proven by the fact that if you run water over these paper or cloth masks the water will slowly seep through, meaning microscopic viruses can get through as well.
And as for disposable gloves, they too
give one a false sense of security. How so... remember that washing
your hands for at least 20 seconds remains the best defense against
COVID-19, but that when you go into a public place, grocery stores
included, you most likely don't have access to soap and water, hand
sanitizer, or sanitizing wipes by which to clean your grocery
cart...a cart always exposed to viruses and bacteria in the air. And
also being forgotten is that viruses stick well to disposable gloves
whether they be latex or rubber, and that if you touch your face or
rub your eyes you expose yourself to the very virus the wearing of
gloves is supposed to protect you from. In fact, just the act of
taking off said gloves can cause viral contamination unless you take
them off from the inside out and dispose of them immediately. The
nurse in the video below explains it best.
So where are we now as the infamous
curve is finally starting to shows signs of flattening out? It seems
we're still being force-fed half-truths, misinformation, and cleverly
crafted panic mostly from the Democrats and propagated by the
alphabet media. And it's all being done in a last ditch attempt to
try and derail the “2020 Trump Train.” And why is this
truth...because while we know that panic and terror tends to breed
strange bedfellows we also know that if the Democrats and the media
really cared about this country...as summed up in their “we are
all in this together” mantra...they
would not be lambasting President Trump every chance they get...they
would not be weaponizing a virus for political gain...but instead
would be asking our president what they can do to help our country
deal with a crisis not of America's or his doing. And with this being
something they refuse to do then nothing more needs to be said.
Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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As we speak, President Trump is speaking to the media, part of his
daily Wuhan coronavirus presser, where he stresses that the country
needs to re-open. He’s right. In four to six weeks, some businesses
might be wiped out. American workers are hurting. And there isn’t enough
bailout money that can keep the enormity of the US economy afloat. It
needs people to shop. It needs activity. It needs to re-open.
