2020 — A Year of COVID–19 and Presidential Elections

In an old blog post I described my dilemma in voting for a presidential candidate in the 2016 election. I described the dilemma as like Hobson’s choice but modified that description because Hobson had the choice of something or nothing; a bad horse or no horse at all. My dilemma was one of choosing between Stalin in a pantsuit (HRH Clinton) or for Mussolini with hair (Trump). I chose neither, making no choice for President – perhaps Hobson after all

Four years later Trump has been defeated in the most recent election, although he keeps insisting that he didn’t lose but was cheated by the Democrats, who from now on I shall refer to as the Socialists for a more accurate description of them. He is to be replaced, temporarily at least, by Joe Biden a 50 year underachieving political lightweight who was recently Obama’s vice president.

Last year at this time Trump’s economy was booming. During his administration unemployment was at its lowest in fifty years, particularly among women, African Americans and Hispanics. Real take-home pay was rising faster than it had in decades and the ‘smart’ opinion was that he would be re-elected in a landslide. Then COVID happened.

The virus came from China, although we were immediately scolded by the Socialists not to mention that fact. How humans got infected by this virus remains unknown. Like the Benghazi terrorist attacks that were blamed on a video, we have been told by the media ‘experts’ that the virus originated in bats from a meat market. Others have pointed out that the meat market bats are not the kind that carry this virus. They claim that the bats that carry COVID viruses reside hundreds of miles away from the meat market and are not available for purchase there.

An alternative explanation for the infection is that it was born in a Chinese bio-lab where they were (legitimately) investigating bat viruses and how the come to infect humans. According to this explanation the virus escaped from this lab, probably in an accidentally infected lab worker who then spread it within the local population.

We just don’t know the truth about how this virus infected humans and we are unlikely to ever find out with certainty. What we do know for certain is that within the space of a few weeks this virus was out of China and with the assistance of global travel, was infecting the world. Shutting down travel from China and other seriously affected nations was hailed by the Socialists as jingoistic and racist. Nancy ‘Antoinette’ Pelosi urged us to hug a Chinaman to show our non-racist qualifications.  Suffice it to say that actions proposed to limit the spread of the virus were vigorously denounced by the Socialists until later in the year when the administration was denounced for not implementing them earlier.

As the virus spread the only methods recommended for curtailing the spread were to stay at home, stay at least 6 feet away from another, and to wear a mask to prevent breathing out infected droplets. The mask recommendation is the most interesting one since early on in the anti-virus fight we were told that masks were ineffective. That recommendation then morphed into one that claimed that masks would prevent the wearer from infecting others but would not prevent the wearer from catching the infection. Now we are being told that self-protection can be achieved by wearing a mask. It seems to me that political objectives drove these recommendations more than health considerations. I can think of no other reason that they can't keep their story straight.

We are now told that the panacea of protection from the virus is the impending vaccines. I do hope that this is so but I do have concerns. Firstly, in general there are no cures for virus infections. I believe that so far only one virus has a developed cure, the rest need prevention, usually by a vaccine. If the virus mutates then the vaccine will become less effective. Perhaps we can follow the influenza route and produce a new vaccine every year based on our best guess about next year’s virus mutation.

The virus closed our economy with millions thrown out of work. In addition the Trump administration was heckled continuously by a press compliant to the wishes and instructions of the power crazed Socialists. Unable to get his message out through the filter of press distortions, Trump continued to Tweet and to ramble during daily COVID conferences. The result is that he lost reelection to a Pandemic from China and to a Socialist rabble who hated him for winning in 2016 and giving lie to their worldview.

The next administration is to be led by a lifelong politician of no significant achievements who is raddled by his dementia and completely lacking in any political vision. His vice president, who is widely expected to replace him in a 24^th Amendment coup-d’état, is a woman of mixed Caribbean and Indian heritage who seems to have climbed to the top much like a courtesan in the courts of Europe in previous centuries.

Only God can save the American experiment in government now.