Day 1173 – Let’s be Fair to the president

Day 1173 – Let’s be Fair to the president
Sunday April 5, 2020
210 Days until the election on November 3rd
290 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
I recently got an email from my friend Ron entitled:
Chinese Covid 19 Check Point

Here is the text:
“The CHICOMS don’t mess around … just like Trump didn’t mess around when he embargoed any Chinese from coming into our Country … and was criticized as being “racist” by the same people (MSNBC) who now say he dawdled and didn’t act soon enough.”

There was a movie attached which I didn’t open (didn’t want my machine to get infected!)
The movie has a picture of what looks like a toll booth with a traffic cop and someone in protective gear. As I said I didn’t play the movie. But the implication of the text is that Trump didn’t mess around and he isn’t getting credit for it from places like MSNBC.
I beg to differ, ever so slightly. I think he has gotten credit by MSNBC for everything he has done and not done, but let’s make sure he and others get the credit they deserve.
I also want to point out the title of the email I received – Chinese Covid 19. Some would call that racist, because well, it is. But let’s go with it shall we? Or do you like Tom Cotton’s characterization better “Wuhan Virus”?
But now that the virus is here should we could call it by geographic location, like “New York Covid 19” and “New Jersey Covid 19”, “Ohio Covid 19”? Those are states. Maybe it should be cities, like “New York Covid 19” or “San Francisco Covid 19”? Or as Cotton did, sign it to a race or nationality “American Covid 19”? How about assign it to an individual from that city or state? Trump is from New York so we could slap his name on it – “Trump Covid 19”? San Franciso has Nancy Pelosi so it could be “Pelosi Covid 19”?
Let’s keep score shall we? How’s Trump Covid 19 doing compared to Pelosi Covid 19? Why Trump is way out ahead! Or as Hillary (that nasty woman!) pointed out “We’re number 1!” Why are folks offended by that? She just told the truth.
Okay, it’s not fair to call New York’s Covid 19 “Trump Covid 19” because he’s no longer a resident of New York. He now is a resident of Florida so really Florida’s should be called “Trump Covid 19.” The Donald likes his name on things, I say give him both! I’m generous.
The email goes on to say Trump dawdled. Well, he did. Let’s give him credit for holding press conferences during those weeks after stopping Chinese from coming here from China (but not other folks. Fortunately, Covid 19 knows the difference between Wuhanians and New Yorkers flying back to America right? Am I right?)
The idea of stopping flights from countries is to give your country time to prepare. Did we prepare? Well, the president held multiple press conferences and said that we had the situation under control, that there were only 5 cases in the country and it was dropping to 0 soon. He was only off by what? 300,000 or more. So do be fair, and accurate should I subtract 5 or 0 from the total to say how far off he was? Just asking, you tell me.
Let’s also give him credit for stopping other things as well, like accepting test kits from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Let’s give him credit for his restraint. Like not invoking the War Powers Act at that time and whipping our military and industries into action to fight this thing.
Let’s also give him credit for not putting the whole country in quarantine, which would have – according to experts (what do they know?) – helped stop the spread of this pandemic.
Let’s also point out that many governors took the lead from the president and let “business as usual” rule the day. Big shout out to Ron DiSantis in Florida for keeping the beaches open for spring break so all those healthy kids could pass the virus among themselves and then go back home. Of course, we don’t know that to be true because we didn’t test many if any of them. Last I heard five had the virus, but that was weeks ago.

Other cities (like San Francisco) and states (like Ohio) ignored the president and immediately started shutting down. The Republican governor of Ohio should get a big shout out. He stopped a huge meeting from taking place in his state and shut his state down. The result is Ohio does not have the huge outbreak that Trump-ville has, I mean New York City. San Francisco also shut down. It was the first city to do so. Guess they learned from the AIDS epidemic? Hey, that’s Pelosi’s district! Who knew? Shouldn’t she get credit?

What else should the president get credit for? I don’t know if this is fair because I’m sure if he is asked he will say he didn’t do it. That maybe someone in his administration did it, but he didn’t do it. He’ll then turn and look for someone and ask them. “Mike did you do it?” or “Jared, did you do it?” Well, shucks no, well yes, kind of, well not them personally. Mike will “assure the American people,” while Jared will say, essentially, “They aren’t for you.” And then they’ll trot out that guy with all the medal on his chest who will say, “Oh yes, we released all the masks we promised in the National Stockpile. We GAVE them to suppliers to sell in the open market place.”
Yes, let’s give credit where credit is due. This administration gave away some of our national emergency supply to be sold on the open market, while governors were imploring and pleading for them. ( ‘They aren’t for you.” – J. Kushner)

Ron, You used to fly big tanker planes in Vietnam. Imagine if you were told to deliver a plane load of that fuel to say Exxon/Mobil for them to sell to whomever they wanted to sell it to? You know let the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Marines all bid for it. Heck maybe Russia or China would pay more? Who knows. That’s open market competition.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump is saying that some of the states are demanding more ventilators than they will really need. It’s clear that Mr. Trump is implying one of those states is New York. If you are incorrect, and they really do need those ventilators, I hope you take the Governor of New York up on his demand that you come and determine who lives and who dies. Maybe not you personally, but someone in your administration. Maybe Mike? Or Jared? Or how about Ivanka? I understand she is learning to play the guitar. She could entertain the person gasping for air. Maybe show them the chords she learned that day? Maybe play “If I had a Ventilator” (updated from “If I had a Hammer?”)

Meanwhile, the owner of the Nets is donating 1,000 ventilators. He’s Chinese. They are Chinese ventilators! OMG! Flown right out of China. Yeah, that’s right. Hey, guess what? It’s reported that those ventilators will work. Not like the ones in the National Stockpile that don’t because you let the contract go on maintaining them.
Yeah, let’s give the president credit.
Should I stick on a “Let’s see who has the guts to repost this?” on my Facebook post?

Come on Ron, and the rest of you. Give the president his credit.
210 Days until the election on November 3rd
290 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS Monkey See, Monkey blow this sh*t up.