William Frist, M.D., a nationally acclaimed heart and lung transplant surgeon and the former Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate saw it coming years ago.

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Back in 2005, Dr. Frist warned: A Storm for Which We Were Unprepared

Any number of unknown viruses for which at present there is neither immunization nor cure are at this moment cooking in Asia and Africa, where they arise in hotbeds of densely intermingled human and animal populations. We are in unexplored territory.

U.S. coronavirus numbers: So far, a less rough week  "Towards the end of last week, deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S. were averaging around 1,900. The first two days of this week (April 12 and 13) have seen a decline. The U.S. reported 1,528 deaths from the virus on Sunday and 1,535 yesterday.
"The number of new U.S. cases also decreased. Last week the numbers came in at 30,000 to 34,000. On Sunday, there were 27,421 new reported cases. Yesterday, there were 26,641.
"At the end of yesterday, total reported deaths in the U.S. from the virus stood at 23,640. Even with the improved numbers we’ve seen, the total will probably exceed 30,000 by the end of the week. And with so many new reported cases in the past ten days, we can expect fairly large daily death counts for quite some time thereafter, unless the treatment of new patients has substantially improved (a possibility).
"Not long ago, Italy began to report a diminution of daily deaths and reported new cases. At that point, as I discussed here, the daily death count started coming in at about 75 percent of the previous average. It has lingered at that level for a while now, even as new reported cases have continued to decline (yesterday’s new case number was 3,153, half of what it was in late March).
"Dr. Birx, the administration’s point person in the fight against this pandemic, likes to say that we’re a week or two behind Italy in terms of “flattening the curve.” I don’t know whether this means that our trends, as we descend from the peak, will mirror Italy’s. However, I think the Italian experience (which is similar to Spain’s) is worth noting."

We Never Needed to Flatten the Curve  "The purported rationale for the shutdowns that have crushed our economy and devastated the lives of tens of millions of Americans is the need to “flatten the curve.” We have all seen diagrams like this one many times:"

"The theory behind curve-flattening is not that the virus will mysteriously disappear while we are all hunkered down, and we will emerge when it is safe to come out. That won’t happen. The point of curve-flattening is to prolong the epidemic, making it last longer than it otherwise would, as you can see in the curve-flattening diagrams. That way, more or less the same number will get sick and the same percentage will die, with one exception: our hospitals will not be overwhelmed by a crush of COVID-19 cases, and so ICU rooms and so on will be available for those who need them. That was the point of the shutdowns–to flatten the curve by stretching out the epidemic." . . .

Bitter rift with Bernie? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez undercuts Sanders's Biden endorsement

Monica Showalter  . . . "Now she's really undercut Bernie with this embrace of sex-harassment charges against Biden. Because Bernie now looks like a fool to be supporting Biden, as does President Obama, who also (with a smirk) endorsed Biden. 

"Ocasio-Cortez just pointed out that they endorsed a sex harasser, and an unusually creepy one at that. Coming as it does at a time when Biden is desperately trying to draw the Bernie people into the Democrat tent under his leadership, it's pretty much a call to split and get away from this guy. With Ocasio-Cortez now calling out Biden as a pervert, and 15% of the Bernie-ites already planning to vote for Trump as it is, all it's going to do is justify more Bernie-ites staying home or else casting their votes for a third party if not Trump.

"So much for party unity. Will be fun to watch Bernie answer questions about this one. Better still, it will be party-time as we continue to watch Ocasio-Cortez speak out on the election."

Ex-President Barack Obama — the man responsible for the presidency of Donald J. Trump — has finally emerged from the tomb.

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"The One has risen. He is Risen, indeed! Ex-President Barack Obama — the man responsible for the presidency of Donald J. Trump — has finally emerged from the tomb."

Obama finally surrenders and gives Biden his endorsement: Goodwin  "Barack "Obama’s very belated endorsement of Joe Biden is provoking a few laughs as well as serious questions. “Leading from behind,” one GOP stalwart said while a stock-market observer called it a “lagging indicator.”

"Both are true — in more ways than intended. For while the act itself was hardly cutting edge, given that Biden is the only Democrat still running, much of what Obama said made his backing sound like an abject surrender." . . .

Obama Breaks Long Silence on Presidential Race, Endorses Biden . . . "The former president praised Biden’s experience on a wide range of policy issues, including his efforts combating previous health care emergencies.
“ 'Joe helped me manage H1N1 and prevent the Ebola epidemic from becoming the type of pandemic we’re seeing now,” Obama said." . . .

Barack Obama’s Endorsement Might Do More Harm Than Good

. . . "Plus, this could turn out to be a net negative for the Democrats. Sanders fans will be disappointed in him, moderates who went with Trump because they saw Hillary as a repeat of Obama will likewise be hesitant to pull the lever for Biden, and Biden will be unable to define himself as anything other than Obama’s Vice President. He is now stuck defending those same policies that led to massive Republican wins during Obama’s presidency." . . .

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Warren Endorses Biden for President  Democrat chickens are coming home to roost; Biden captures the liberal scold vote.

Black Georgia Democrat: Screw Joe Biden. I'm Voting For Trump  . . . "Screw Biden, he’s backing Trump for the 2020 election and the reasons are sound. Trump has led a stellar economy, though one that’s now crippled due to China’s incompetence of controlling a new pneumonia-like virus, COVID-19. But that will be rebuilt in due time, as long as people keep social distancing to slow the spread. Davis also noted Trump’s commitment to criminal justice reform as another." . . . 
Well, let's see if he can convince a CNN-educated electorate committed to a vicious party that knows no bounds nor integrity; a party that cannot be believed under any circumstance.

Obama Snaps GOP Has ‘Massive War Chest, Propaganda Network.’ Cruz Demolishes Him.

"In his second inaugural speech in 2013, Obama stated,”The American people don’t expect government to solve every problem. They don’t expect those of us in this chamber to agree on every issue. But they do expect us to put the nation’s interests before party.”
Not right now."

Daily Wire  "On Tuesday, Barack Obama, who likely more than any other president benefited from a supine media willing to wallow in adulation before him, released a video endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president, and in the video, Obama had the audacity to attack Republicans by saying, “The other side has a massive war chest. The other side has a propaganda network with little regard for the truth.”
"Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) took aim and obliterated Obama, firing back this missile on Twitter, “Shorter Obama: ‘Dems only have 8 of the 10 richest American billionaires—including Bloomberg, Bezos & the Google founders—plus Soros & Steyer. And we’ve only got ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT & just about every other newspaper in America. How can we compete on $$ and propaganda?’”
. . . 
"CNN’s Jake Tapper admitted in August 2017: “I don’t want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues because they’re different, and the scale isn’t even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren’t true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.”

"There are numerous instances of the media bias for Obama, including the infamous interference of CNN’s Candy Crowley during Obama’s 2012 debate with Mitt Romney, when she interjected her own version of the truth to blunt Romney’s attack on Obama and support Obama’s version of events." . . .

2011: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said his infamous cry of “You lie!” at President Obama has been vindicated.

If you take on a politician who is the beloved of talk show hosts, society magazines and anti-Republican TV newsreaders you're toast. TD

Barack Obama, his back against the wall, finally endorses Joe Biden

Between his reluctance to endorse Biden and his damning him with faint praise, Obama’s encomiums for his former Veep come across as disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst. However, what does shine through is that Obama genuinely sees a Biden victory as the last hope for a rerun of Obama’s presidency.

And the same intellectuals who adored a skateboarding Democrat named Beto will adoringly follow Obama's recommendation, except, perhaps for those Biden has threatened to beat up. TD

Andrea Widberg  "Since the 2020 Democrat primary began, Joe Biden has been doing everything he can to associate himself with Barack Obama. The one thing missing from these efforts was Barack Obama, who refused to say anything nice about his former Vice President." . . .

. . . "Experience? Well, yes . . . but is Joe’s the experience America wants? Robert Gates, Obama’s defense secretary, wrote in his memoir that Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Joe Biden engaged in a high-tech lynching against Clarence Thomas, while simultaneously demeaning Anita Hill, a black woman. The list of Biden’s “experience” is endless, and none of it is good.

"Honesty? Joe Biden was driven out of the 1988 presidential race because of his dishonesty, an echo of his law school problems. What's also inconsistent with honesty is the corruption that’s benefitted his family for decades, including his dirty dealings with the Chinese government on Hunter’s behalf.

"Humility? This is the man who keeps telling all who will listen that he’s smarter than they are, and who told a voter “you’re full of sh*t” and then threatened to beat him up.

"Empathy and grace? For almost fifty years, Biden has lied about the man who was involved in the car accident that killed Biden’s wife and daughter, calling him a drunk, when it was Mrs. Biden who caused the fatal accident. Defaming an innocent man is the opposite of empathy and grace. In many of his interactions with people less powerful than he is, Biden is a bully.

"And of course, where in that litany of virtues does one put Biden’s creepy obsession with little girls or the fact that he’s credibly accused of sexually assaulting a staffer?

"Obama then dedicates a mere two minutes out of twelve to discuss Joe himself. We learn, among other things, that Joe helped Obama with the slowest, lowest recession recovery in American history; Joe was the one who kept a disease in a far corner of untraveled Africa from coming to America; and Joe will surround himself with experts." . . .

"Liberal Treated With Hydroxychloroquine Hopes He Still Dies Of COVID-19 To Prove Trump Is Stupid"

Babylon Bee

     "NEW YORK, NY—When Jeffrey Walton tested positive for COVID-19, he hoped for a speedy recovery. But since he has been treated with hydroxychloroquine, the experimental treatment President Donald Trump has been touting, he now hopes he dies quickly to help prove that Trump is an idiot.
     "While Trump has been giving people hope that hydroxychloroquine could save lives, his political opponents have called it false hope and claimed Trump has no idea what he’s talking about. Walton, a lifelong Democrat and progressive, had joined in calling Trump “irresponsible” and an “ignoramus” and now has an opportunity to prove it by simply dying. “It’s such an opportunity, I don’t want to pass it up,” Walton said.
     "Doctor Glenn Logan, Walton’s physician, says he’s been up and down. “After we gave him the hydroxychloroquine, he got really excited about the idea of dying to prove Trump is dumb, and his good mood helped his condition, and he started to improve. Because that would only help Trump, his getting healthier made him depressed, which caused his condition to deteriorate. Which made him really happy. Which helped him recover and... Well, it’s been a weird cycle.”
     "Dr. Logan has been warning Walton that there is a chance he could fully recover. Walton is trying to prepare himself for this -- a world where everything isn’t black and white and Trump can be right about some things -- but he insists he’d much rather die."  . . .

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Nancy Pelosi and Her Democrats’ Unending SHAME

DonkeyHotey

"Nancy Pelosi is back to her old tricks, dishonest as ever. No plot to destroy this president is too wicked to deploy."

Patricia McCarthy   "There are some truly terrible people in Congress; there always have been some throughout American history. But as the country navigates the course of this mis-modeled and over-hyped COVID-19 pandemic, Nancy Pelosi stands out as a genuine enemy of America. She loathes the president so much she has relinquished any semblance of ethics and her own personal character. Every word she utters is a lie.

"She knows damn well that the president was on top of this virus crisis while she and her fellow anti-Americans were gleefully and despicably embroiled in their attempt to remove the president from office. Not one of the principals in this fiasco – Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, or the rest of them gave a single thought to the potential threat of the disease emanating from China. There is no record of any of them even mentioning it until the economic shutdown brought it to their attention. But for calling Trump 'xenophobic' when he banned flights from China, none of them registered the virus as dangerous to the U.S. Once it became clear it was a serious threat, they all got on board to blame it on the president, to spread the lie that he was late to recognize it and is thus to blame, as Barbra Streisand put it, for 20k deaths. What abhorrent nonsense. Pelosi is the de facto leader of a liars' club. And just as when the same bunch went after then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, there is not one bit of truth to their accusations and they all know it. This is how malevolent Pelosi and her disciples are. No plot to destroy this president is too wicked to employ.

"Pelosi and her fellow ghouls conference-called on Monday during which she called the president’s “failure” to provide testing, masks and gloves “sinful.” Whew! That takes a level of chutzpah even most members of Congress would eschew. Most know they dropped the ball due to impeachment. But to fabricate a narrative so provably false takes a mind and soul wholly without scruples. And like the rest of the left, she and her partners in prevarication are all in on the wholesale destruction of the American economy as long as it takes President Trump down too. That is how unprincipled they are, the lot of them.

"Trump has handled this pandemic far better than most world leaders which is why the Pelosi-Schiff-ites hate him so. Because he is not one of them, not a member of their club, they naturally assumed he would be incompetent, not up to the task at hand – running the United States. As it turned out, he is the most competent man we’ve had in that office in decades. He has beat them at their devious games over and over again and they never see their defeat coming. . . ."
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Brutal Trump-de-Force at the Coronavirus Hearing Leaves Media Screaming 'Pull the Plug!'

Trump knows that millions of Americans appreciate this in-your-face message to the media. How the media will respond after this is anyone's guess.

Victoria Taft  "Donald Trump absolutely lit up his own Coronavirus Task Force press briefing with a more than six-minute, tour-de-force media takedown that had CNN and MSNBC sputtering and reaching for the plug.
"Trump said hello and turned the media briefing over to the NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci to clarify his words uttered on CNN on shutting down the country earlier to prevent more deaths.
"Then, Trump took over and it was ON. He listed the timeline of his response to the coronavirus and presented a video of incorrect statements by the press on COVID-19.

It was more than the Trumpiest of Trump updates, it was a Trump-de-Force:

President Trump gives a Timeline of his Coronavirus Response: pic.twitter.com/ocOVcg4tmH

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 13, 2020

"The video looked like a professional ad:

President Trump plays campaign-style video at press briefing defending his response to coronavirus pandemic
pic.twitter.com/HwAThsSYCG

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 13, 2020

"MSNBC and CNN, which usually begin taking the updates only after Trump has spoken, stayed with for Fauci and, when Trump began bagging on the media, bugged out early:

Hilarious! CNN can dish it out but can’t take it. They just dumped out of the WH Coronavirus Task Force briefing bc the president is exposing their rank bias.

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 13, 2020

"CNN reported that Trump was lying: . . .More...

Michelle Obama’s odds to be Biden’s vice president surge as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar fade

Then it will be racist to oppose Biden. TD

TDaul Bedard  "Former first lady Michelle Obama is back in play big time as a favorite to be Joe Biden’s running mate.
"As Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday made a surprise endorsement of Biden in a warm and humorous video chat, the focus turned to Biden’s pick for vice president and gambling markets charted by Oddschecker.com saw a surge of support for Obama.
" 'Michelle Obama has been the most backed person in the market, accounting for almost 32% of all bets,” the firm said.
"Spokesman Pete Watt told us, “Following Biden’s announcement that his VP would be female, plenty of names are being thrown into the ring, and the latest to attract a significant amount of attention is the former FLOTUS, Michelle Obama.”
"He added, “Although her odds of +2500 [25-1] indicate that she remains an outsider with just an implied chance of 3.85%, you can expect to see that figure shoot up if she continues to receive bets at the same rate.”
"The betting analysis site also showed that former favorites, Sens. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, have begun to fade as interest in Obama has surged.

Obama has ruled out a run, but Democrats are increasingly excited that a newly united Biden-Obama ticket would be the ticket to beating President Trump.
"In the Oddschecker analysis, headlined “2020 US Election Odds: Michelle Obama Backed To Be Joe Biden's Vice President,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s odds of being picked by Biden are also rising, to 6-1. She has had on-and-off fights with Trump over the administration’s response to the coronavirus."

'Not about switching parties': Democratic state lawmaker in Georgia endorses Trump reelection

Washington Examiner  "A Democratic state lawmaker from Georgia endorsed President Trump's reelection bid but does not plan to change political parties.
"State Rep. Vernon Jones, 59, announced his support for the president on Tuesday, citing Trump's record on helping black people, military veterans, and farmers with his policies.
" 'It’s very simple to me. President Trump’s handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges, and his criminal justice initiatives drew me to endorse his campaign,” Jones told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
" 'This is not about switching parties. There are a lot of African Americans who clearly see and appreciate he’s doing something that’s never been done before,” he added. “When you look at the unemployment rates among black Americans before the pandemic, they were at historic lows. That’s just a fact.”
" 'Jones did not offer criticism of 2020 presumptive Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, nor did he indicate that he wouldn't have endorsed Trump had Democrats picked a different candidate. He did, however, have harsh comments for his party after Super Tuesday turned the tides in the primary by boosting Biden.
" 'Some in the party would say they stole it from Bernie last election, and now, they’re wanting to change the rules to hurt him this time,” Jones explained at the time. "What makes the party more intelligent and able to pick the presidential nominee than the people? My powder’s dry. I’m not endorsing. But I am frustrated with the process.”   More...

Megan Rapinoe Complains Her National Anthem Protest Was Not Well Received

Politics Daily   October 20, 2019

"U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe complained that her national anthem protest was not well received despite her being a “non-threatening” white woman.

"Rapinoe became one of the first white athletes to kneel during the national anthem and subsequently stated, “I’ll probably never sing the national anthem again”.

"Now she’s whining that Americans weren’t impressed by her antics.

“ 'I actually felt like it was going to be received a little better,” Rapinoe told CNN’s Van Jones. “Like, OK, well, woman, white, sort of non-threatening. No, that was not the case.”

"She then reeled off a list of vague justifications for protesting against the anthem.

"“You know mass incarceration’s happening. You know police brutality, you know the history of our country. For me, honestly it was kind of a no-brainer,” she said.

"Rapinoe’s anthem protest may have been better received if she hadn’t behaved like a petulant, obnoxious child throughout and after the Women’s World Cup.

"Rapinoe was caught on video ranting “I deserve this” while holding the World Cup trophy and appears to attempt to make herself the center of attention at every available opportunity.

"The soccer star was also involved in an incident at the end of the final game where the American flag was dropped on the ground."

Well, Democrat Washington Governor Jay Inslee considers Rapinoe Secretary of State material  She would have done well dealing with America's enemies; they'd know there would never be anything to fear from us. Freedom-loving Iranians protesting the Mullah's rule would be on their own like they were when Obama was president. TD

. . . "As Breitbart News reported:"

Rapinoe has emerged as one of the most potent symbols of the anti-Trump resistance after she declared that she did not want to go to the “fucking White House” even if her team brought home its fourth World Cup title.

The co-captain has refused to put her hand over her heart and sing the national anthem and made headlines before the World Cup when she kneeled during the national anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick.

Left-wing polling outfit Public Policy Polling actually polled a hypothetical presidential matchup between Rapinoe and Trump. The poll, released this week, had Rapinoe defeating Trump by a percentage point.

. . .
 Unworthy winner? Fans claim Rapinoe Ballon d’Or award based on politics rather than performances  . . . "Rapinoe also scooped the FIFA Best Women’s Player prize in September, on the back of captaining the US to World Cup glory in France in the summer, where she won the Golden Boot for top scorer and the Golden Ball for best player.

"She was later seen holding the trophy up at a parade and modestly proclaiming “I deserve this, I deserve this.' ” . . .

. . . "Openly gay, Rapinoe has frequently used her platform to espouse social equality while targeting US President Donald Trump.

"Among the critics of her Ballon d'Or award was former US women’s international Ella Masar, who tweeted:  

“We have come SO far in the women’s game but seriously, when will it stop being a POPULARITY contest?!? 4 the men, it’s stats, it’s numbers for country AND club, but for women’s ... well it can be seen as a jk. They’re incredible players, absolutely, but the best 4 the year?! Hmmm.”

Obama to Finally Endorse Biden...The RNC Had a Great Reaction

Cortney O'Brien  "In his video endorsement, Obama paints his former vice president as a man who fights for the middle class and one who will bring "grace" and "humility" back to the White House." . . .
. . . "We're nearing the eleventh hour of the 2020 presidential election, and former President Barack Obama has finally endorsed his old VP Joe Biden. He had no choice really, now that Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee. He plans to make it official via a video message on Tuesday.
. . . 
"Quite a few Sanders supporters do not plan to follow the senator's lead. Here's just a small list of progressive groups who say that there's no way in hell they'll endorse Biden until he agrees to support some of their farfetched, socialist proposals." . . .

The [NY Times] allowed feminist Gloria Steinem to give Bill Clinton a pass on his credible rape allegations back in the 1990s. Why? Well, because he's a Democrat.
. . . "So, again, please spare me the lectures about how the Democrats are the party for women. They're doing a Chinese propaganda-like production in trying to sweep an allegation under the rug that targets a former VP. Trump Derangement Syndrome can make liberals do some pretty crazy stuff.
"As for the Biden sexual assault allegation, is that why Barack Obama is staying away from him?"