https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/04/07/do-as-she-says-not-as-she-does-chicago-mayor-gets-haircut-despite-social-distancing-order/

I don’t think some of them will make it to November. And after Trump wins, a number will end up in institutions.

https://i.etsystatic.com/5288709/r/il/4955fd/1292444177/il_570xN.1292444177_ms9m.jpg

Democrats are in a tizzy because President Trump, while noting a recommendation that we all wear face masks when going out in public–a reversal of the original government claim that masks do no good–said that he probably wouldn’t wear one himself.
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Out of curiosity, I went to Google Images and searched for “Nancy Pelosi wearing mask.” Nada. Likewise for Joe Biden, although he alleged that he was willing to wear one. As far as I can tell, he hasn’t. But I hit pay dirt when I searched “Chuck Schumer wearing mask.” It turns out that once in his life, Schumer did his duty and donned a mask to help fight COVID-19. This is a screen shot from a local TV news program in New York:

Check out how Schumer wears his – he might as well not have it on.

And the commenters expanded along my own line of thinking: President Trump is not shopping at WalMart, not even during Senior Hour.

ronnutter • 2 hours ago
Gail Collins on Trump: “when he announced he wasn’t going to wear face masks because he didn’t want to look funny.” I don’t recall his ever saying this. I do recall he said wearing a mask is voluntary and that he, personally, wasn’t going to wear one, but nothing about him looking “funny” as his rationale for doing so. Also, as I understand it, any and all who enter Trump’s presence must be temperature checked if not virus checked before seeing him. So what’s the problem with his not wearing a mask? The whole project is given away when Collins remarks she didn’t think she could have held Trump in lower regard until he said [what she said above]. That level of bias is a strong indication to take whatever comes next with huge, huge grains of salt.

For now, the media, Pelosi, and Biden, along with the Left in general, wish to perpetuate a sense of viral Armageddon to make it politically impossible for Trump to initiate a graduated plan of returning America to work. Their hope is for a summer and fall of continued lockdown, a near depression rather than a mere recession, and enough public furor to end Trump in November—while hoping that a sudden post-election end to the lockdown will allow the natural recovery of Trump’s booming economy on their watch in 2021.

Missing in all these calculations is empathy for those who are ill and the losses that such macabre expectations certainly entail. Also absent is a sense of the irony that, by unfairly scapegoating Trump in hours of darkness, they are ensuring that in the upcoming dawn, he will be credited by their same logic with owning what will likely be an impressive U.S. response to suppressing the virus and reviving the economy.

Yes, well the plane has to be crashed in order to kill the pilot you see. As for the passengers, well this is of course regretted by the media. After all, they might have become potential consumers of the product, but….sacrifices must be made.

I find it very concerning that there are no updates on the condition of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. My very best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery soonest.

Looks like Trump is proactively heading off the next pre-impeachment gambit by moving the putative examiner/watchdog for the COVID-19 bailout spending away from the role and substituting his own candidate. Smart move.

Jeff in Calgary April 7, 2020 at 3:09 pm
Predictions only double the actual are actually quite good. I don’t think I would use the term “Wildly Exaggerated”.

pochas94 April 7, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Agree. If the model resulted in precautions that resulted in a 50 percent reduction in cases, that’s good not bad.

Look at this excerpt in the Breitbart pose:

On Monday, Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), appeared on AM 1030 KVOI Radio in Tucson, Arizona, and said that the statistics have dramatically changed since the nation began the stay-at-home campaign.

Redfield said that the number of deaths now looks on track to be “much, much, much lower” than previously projected.

The doctor noted that the nation’s actions as a whole seriously impacted the models used to project the number of deaths. He added that, “those models that were done, they assume only about 50 percent of the American public would pay attention to the recommendations. In fact, what we’re seeing is a large majority of the American public is taking the social distancing recommendations to heart. And I think that’s the direct consequence of why you’re seeing the numbers are going to be much, much, much lower than would have been predicted by the models.”

That still leaves a lot of idiots coughing on the produce, but most of us are following the rules, even if we don’t always agree with them, and some people started earlier with masks and self-isolation before the governments made their decrees.

“Hoisted on their own petard? The liberals may have a dilemma on whether to credit Trump for saving lives or admit that their models were terribly wrong. I just can’t see them saying anything negative about models.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/04/07/clay-travis-media-must-blame-faulty-coronavirus-projections-admit-trump-saved-millions-people/

They will manage to thread the needle somehow, and continue blaming Trump for whatever happens.

AesopSpouse was pondering favorably on an article today from one of the many people who are skeptical about the need to lock down the economy so tightly, so early, and so long, since we hadn’t done any of that during the earlier pandemics.

I noted that it had not been the case earlier that half of the country was ready to march on the White House with pitchforks, tar, feathers, and other assorted violent implements — complete with a black-masked militia* — when people started dying of those earlier diseases.

In other words, if Trump did exactly what Obama (and other presidents) had done, he would “have blood on his hands.”
Now, doing what he did, he “has blood on his hands” and is profiting** to boot.

And let’s just ignore the Democrat congresscritters who sold off their stocks as soon as they had a private briefing on the growing epidemic before it was widely publicized.
I wonder if any of THEM have holdings (in trust or not) in a fund that has a holding in a medical-related company.
Just asking, since the media never will.

*but maybe not guns, since they don’t believe those are the answer to anything — except when they need one.

**$1350?!?! – I spent more than that on my trips to the grocery & hardware store yesterday! (just an excuse to pick up some gear that I was planning to get later this summer anyway)