I feel the war on Covid19 is essentially over, if we can hang in there for a few more weeks. Humanity has won. We have suffered some casualties, but there will not be 2.4 million deaths in this country, nor anything like that.
I think this is correct for two reasons: First, I don’t think the virus was ever as deadly as portrayed in the media. I don’t think the estimate of 2.4 million deaths in the U.S. and 21 million needing hospitalization was ever more than a scare tactic and sensationalism. The radicals wanted to use this to advance their big government agenda.
Secondly, it appears some drugs prevent the virus from becoming the killer it could be. Two drugs in particular, one being hydroxychloroquine, were touted by Chinese scientists as early as Feb. 4. At that time these scientists strongly recommended further testing. The big-name universities and hospitals in the U.S. have done little if any of this testing. Nevertheless, at least 6,000 doctors in this country are prescribing the drug for their patients. Instead of being “snake oil,” as the media and former Obama officials have called it, the product has proven to be sensational.
While I am convinced the war against the virus has been won, I do not feel nearly as confident that we will prevail in the war against what could be the greatest depression in the history of the country, or even the world.
We all knew Covid19 was coming. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say we all suspected a disease was headed this way from Wuhan, China. There was disagreement as to how serious the disease would prove to be. I readily admit to not seeing all of the ramifications.
However, I clearly see the outline of a monster depression. For years I’ve talked about the national debt and the undeliverable promises built into our Social Security Retirement, Medicare, Medicaid and Disability programs. Crunch time could be just around the corner.
Donald Trump has never rendered a more valuable service to this country than right now as he pushes to get the American people back to work and ultimately the American economy back on its feet.
In the coming weeks and months, Trump will be criticized by his foes as valuing the economy over human lives. What Trump is really doing is recognizing that the world will be an incredibly dangerous place for humans without a strong United States of America.
Seventy-five years ago, we were just days away from finishing off Adolf Hitler’s Germany, which had exterminated six million Jews and was responsible for the deaths of millions of others. It took a strong America to accomplish that feat.
What kind of world would we be living in if Hitler had developed the atomic bomb? He was only months away from that.
The military contributions of the U.S. are only one small part of the story. We rebuilt Europe and Japan after World War II, millions of students from around the world have been educated at our colleges, our medicines and medical procedures have helped billions. These contributions did not come from a nation with a weak economy.
There is a lot more at stake than our standard of living.
