The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight: “Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.” —Elias Boudinot (1740-1821)

Perspective: “The thing about comparisons to H1H1 and other flu spreads is that this one is spreading more rapidly globally. It has a lower mortality rate than those, but its spread is faster and wider so the overall death toll could be higher.” —Erick Erickson

For the record: “A lot of people are gonna try to use panic to get the things they’ve always wanted. Don’t be a sheep.” —The Federalist’s Jesse Kelly

Dezinformatsiya I: “At one point during this address the president referred to the coronavirus as a quote ‘foreign virus.’ … I think it is going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia to use that kind of term in this speech.” —CNN’s Jim Acosta

Dezinformatsiya II: “Trump’s new coronavirus, European travel restrictions have a convenient side effect: They exempt nations where three Trump-owned golf resorts are located.” —Politico

Non compos mentis: “Democrats should include a provision mandating vote by mail in the Coronavirus legislative package. People shouldn’t have to put their lives at risk to vote in the election.” —former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer

Village idiot: “Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson. The NBA! Trumpers? Can we agree that this isn’t a hoax? Can’t you see how dangerous this president is? He’s been lying to us for weeks. Can’t you see how dangerous Fox News is? They’ve been corroborating his lies.” —actress Alyssa Milano

And last… “I understand why Communist China wants to avoid responsibility for unleashing the Wuhan Virus on the world and mismanaging it as it spread, but [it’s] unseemly that some American politicians and media figures are supporting China’s disinformation campaign.” —The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway