The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting most nations in the world. Germany announced today that it is sealing its borders. But I doubt that out-of-power political parties in most nations are so unashamedly trying to exploit the tragedy to destroy their political opponents as much as the

Donald Trump declared a national emergency as authorized by the Stafford Act, an important measure supporting the government and private-sector response to the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. This was a major step to reducing government regulatory and bureaucratic barriers to response and recovery, and combined with the ... by other realities outside the Beltway, like the economic implications for American workers and their families. As I noted last week in “Is the COVID-19 Cure Killing Us?,” while all the extraordinary measure taken to shut down the nation under the auspices of “social distancing” will help mitigate the ... and “social distancing,” these measures serve primarily two objectives. First, it is assumed that about half of Americans will contract the coronavirus variant causing COVID-19 illness, and a fraction of those will require significant medical attention. The “R” value infectious rate of the this contagion is substantially higher than

of ‘trusting science’ or ‘waking up’ to an inconvenient truth. Plagues are real. They have erupted with deadly effect in the past, just as Covid-19 is erupting in the present.” —columnist Jeff Jacoby Observations: “My question about hunkering down is, when does it end? For how long are we

new normal. In the meantime, Trump’s emergency declaration frees up billions in financial assistance for states and local authorities, while the administration furthers COVID-19 testing via a combination of public and private cooperation. As The Wall Street Journal reports, “Roche, the drug company, has developed a test that ... patients in 24 hours if all goes as planned.” Also over the weekend, with a 363-40 vote, the House passed its rushed emergency COVID-19 bailout bill. Unfortunately, the legislation once again demonstrated just what craven political profiteers Democrats are. Never let a crisis go to waste. This was ... in $1 billion in abortion-related funding, a move that had even Leftmedia pundit Joy Reid asking, “What does that have to do with COVID-19?” Eventually, the abortion-funding loophole was stripped from the bill, but the legislation needs to have a lot more removed. Ironically, the bill will

pledges to pick a woman to be his running mate (CNBC) END OF AN ERA: Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board (CNBC) Closing Arguments POLICY: COVID-19: Public health-policy responses (The Heritage Foundation) POLICY: A fast, coordinated response to COVID-19 is essential (The Washington Post) HUMOR: Latest numbers on

may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.” To reframe that last paragraph amidst the current Covid-19 pandemic: “This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are

was xenophobic. Even now, despite this being the second virus originating in China (SARs emerged in 2003), our own media insists that referring to COVID-19 as “Wuhan virus,” the “Wuhan coronavirus,” or the “Chinese coronavirus” is racist. In the midst of a pandemic, it doesn’t get more intellectually

being taken when we don’t take similar actions for the seasonal flu that strikes millions of Americans each year. The answer is that COVID-19 — the disease caused by the coronavirus — appears to be deadlier and spread quicker. Fauci and other health officials estimate that the COVID-19 death ... rate in the United States is likely somewhere around 1 percent. “The flu has a mortality rate of 0.1 percent. [COVID-19] has a mortality rate of 10 times that. That’s the reason I want to emphasize we have to stay ahead of the game in preventing this,” Fauci

friend asked me the other day if I didn’t think the agitated media coverage of Covid-19, the coronavirus disease, was getting out of control. She knows that I have long been skeptical of the shrill alarmism that has become inseparable from public discussions of climate change. Isn ... of “trusting science” or “waking up” to an inconvenient truth. Plagues are real. They have erupted with deadly effect in the past, just as Covid-19 is erupting in the present. Italy, the first European country to experience the disease, went from no cases to more than 12,000 in ... in keeping with scientific principles that are well-known, empirically confirmed, and grounded in experience, not politics. This is not to suggest that the Covid-19 crisis hasn’t been infected by politics: Of course it has. Like so much else these days, this crisis has been turned into political

How much control should conservative Americans cede to the government during the COVID-19 crisis? In the wake of a the limited lockdown of New Rochelle, New Jersey, and indications that the U.S. is running about 50 days behind China and 11.5 days behind Italy, are we ready to accept

no matter what Trump does or doesn’t do, the left and the liberal media try to blame him for infecting the entire world. Covid-19 is obviously a serious national health problem that will only get worse as many more older and already sick people get infected and have ... turned airports, malls and other parts of America into ghost towns. But unlike previous deadly viruses like the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010, Covid-19 is being politicized and weaponized by the left. You probably don’t remember the details of the swine flu, which infected 60 million Americans ... don’t care. It’s outrageous. Thanks to them, now the older generation who is most likely to die from the effects of the Covid-19 have to get the pills they need from the same country that manufactured the virus. Copyright 2020 Michael Reagan

heart failure in the parking lot, there is an enormous liability, not to mention the fact the patient is dead. In the case of COVID-19, the mainstream media is playing doctor, and worrying the patient to death, the medical/bureaucratic/political team is in the role of the doctor (also aware

yet known how many Americans will die in the process.” —columnist Erick Erickson Non compos mentis I: “You know, since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, we have seen not only the spreading of the virus but also a rapid spreading of racism and xenophobia.” —Rep. Ayanna Pressley Non ... compos mentis II: “Labeling COVID-19 a ‘foreign virus’ does not display accountability for the misjudgments that have taken thus far by the Trump administration.” —Joe Biden Grand delusions: “I get the sense that this is not only the low point of the Trump presidency but the low point of

cancellations as fear of the coronavirus has spread across the nation. Certainly, what has become known as “social distancing” to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 is needed (along with basic hygiene), but when does responsible action become panic-induced overreaction? What we know of the novel COVID-19 is ... worldwide for at least a month. With all these cancellations and the rippling impact it’s having on everyone, the greater problem caused by COVID-19 may not be health related but rather economic devastation. Here is just one example we in our humble shop have experienced thus far. For

including the clerical regime’s clandestine nuclear work and anti-regime protests. The NCRI issued a full report on the scale of Iran’s COVID-19 outbreak on March 10. As well as contradicting Tehran’s low-ball estimates for the numbers of infections and deaths, the report details the ... to isolate Iran. These measures, unfortunately, are part of a reaction to the damage the Iranian regime has already done beyond its own borders. COVID-19 involving people who traveled to Iran have been recorded in around 10 other countries in the region, as well as Australia, Canada, and the

Amidst all of the well-placed urgency and occasionally misplaced panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have decided there’s a pressing need to debate whether terms such as “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese coronavirus” are racist. On one side is a broad coalition that includes liberal pundits, Democratic politicians ... to it as the “Chinese coronavirus” or the “Wuhan virus” used the same terminology until fairly recently, when the WHO coined the official name “COVID-19.” The New York Times posted a link to a Jan. 21 article, tweeting: “The first U.S. case of the Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed

way of life and the U.S. economy, all Americans must put partisanship aside and practice unity. We’re in this fight together. After all, COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care if you’re a Bernie Bro, a Trump supporter or rooting for former Vice President Joe Biden ... eye to eye with the president on a variety of issues, put partisan politics aside and praised the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. “We had a private conversation, but he (President Trump) said, ‘We’re gonna do the right thing’ and ‘You have my support, all

with the fast-spreading coronavirus threat, the last thing the country needs is thousands of asylum seekers released into the U.S. population. Speaking of COVID-19, will Democrats now start caring about border security? Since the policy has been in effect, the number of migrants arriving at the U.S. southern

With President Donald Trump’s sober address to the nation last night over the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) public health threat, concerns over the economic impact have simultaneously risen. What can be done to mitigate the immediate effects of COVID-19 to the U.S. economy? First and foremost, politicians from ... doing during a crisis is nothing. And there are legitimate actions that the government can take both regarding the immediate healthcare challenge presented by COVID-19 and to mitigate the short- and longer-term economic effect on Americans who may suffer significant financial struggles as a result of the viral ... impact on their jobs. Focusing on addressing the economic factor presented by COVID-19, Trump has proposed a temporary payroll-tax cut on the theory that this will help people keep more money in their pockets for the immediate future and keep the economy from sinking into a recession. While

This week, President Donald Trump addressed the nation on our national response to the COVID-19 epidemic. As expected, the World Health Organization has declared the spread of this coronavirus variant a global pandemic. There are two significant global beneficiaries of a “fear pandemic”-induced U.S. economic recession — and the ... media-propaganda leftists — has dealt a devastating blow to our economy and all working Americans and their families. In our comprehensive coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, “The Flu and You,” I included a reference to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who made this connection in January: “We don ... China’s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.” While Cotton was not suggesting that the coronavirus strain responsible for COVID-19 was bio-engineered and then intentionally released, the connection is certainly notable. The fact is, the Wuhan market where COVID-19 was first contracted

Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy — which, of course, is exactly what it is. But imagine for a moment that we are in real war with a cognizant, thinking and clever enemy whose sole reason to live is to ... hurt, maim or kill as many of us as it can. COVID-19 may not have jets, tanks or nukes, like our past enemies. But its arsenal, numbers, cunning and willpower are said to be formidable. To win its war against Americans, COVID-19 must infect and sicken lots of ... Americans each day. If it cannot infect enough victims to multiply and sustain a hungry army of viruses, COVID-19 will soon sputter and die. It will get trapped in just a few hosts among an otherwise victorious and healthy nation of about 330 million. Nature has given COVID

swept up in hysteria, most notably today, given the inescapable media blame-gaming and political churn regarding coronavirus. That’s understandable given how the COVID-19 spread and deaths are being reported. As we discovered last week, media talkingheads struggle with basic logic and math. Regarding the dramatic daily revisions ... risk population. For most viral outbreaks, that falls in the 0.1%-0.5% range, far lower than the shock figures being promoted by the media. COVID-19 mortality rates will likely fall in that range. And the fear factor definitely gets ramped up when governors start deploying National Guard troops, as ... New York Demo Andrew Cuomo to establish a perimeter around a three-square-mile “containment area.” Don’t misunderstand me: The coronavirus variant causing COVID-19, may well be much more serious than other seasonal viral infections. As I have noted previously, it is going to be another bad year

Amidst a growing number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in New York, Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo called in the National Guard and announced his establishment of a “containment zone” in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City where the virus appears to be spreading. “New Rochelle, at this ... substance. Cuomo’s overreaction is what happens when Democrats have spent recent weeks blasting President Donald Trump for supposedly not doing enough to combat COVID-19 — they have to go to ridiculous lengths to outdo him. Democrats and the Leftmedia have exploited COVID-19 in their effort to paint Trump ... comments notwithstanding, the president has handled this well so far. Meanwhile, it should come as no surprise that increasing the number of tests for COVID-19 would reveal more cases. In fact, the discovery of more COVID-19 cases will actually lower its mortality rate. That a virus most health

with unrelated wish-list items. While people are looking to government for solutions, we also have to realize that a huge part of fighting COVID-19 can be found in exercising personal responsibility — good personal hygiene and commonsense social practices will go a long way in helping to prevent further

speaking, political; it’s biological. If Trump’s foes had set out to create a crisis, they hardly could have designed anything better than COVID-19. Not only is Trump himself famously germaphobic, but the disease and its economic effect are primarily a threat for his best demographic — old people ... the same CDC visit, the president went out of his way to attack Washington Gov. Jay Inslee as a “snake.” Trump also said that COVID-19 tests are available to anybody who wants one (that wasn’t true and still isn’t), adding: “The tests are all perfect, like the ... actually believe that call was perfect — even many GOP senators condemned it — one has to wonder who was reassured by the claim that our COVID-19 tests are almost as perfect as the phone call that got Trump impeached. But reassurance isn’t the goal. The priority now is to