Warning about a depression from the coroavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 epidemic, 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-Calif.) has no answers only criticism for 73-year-old President Donald Trump. Trump’s probably the first president in modern history to understand anything about the inner workings of the U.S. economy, something he orchestrated well until the wheels-came-off-the-cart with the coronavirus crisis. Democrats, like Pelosi, insist that Trump must let unelected medical bureaucrats like National Institutes of Health’s Dr. Anthony Fauci or State Department immunologist Dr. Deborah Birx send the U.S. economy over a cliff to accomplish their noble mission of slowing the coronavirus. While Fauci and Birx have slowed the virus, they’ve sent the U.S. economy into the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, causing untold numbers of disease and deaths.
Whether Trump gets reelected or not, he must supervise a safe landing to the U.S. economy, much like U.S. Airways pilot Sully Sullenberger landed his distressed plane safely on the Hudson River Jan. 15, 2009. Fauci and Birx, with the best intentions are pushing the U.S. economy over a cliff. Trump must take back wheel of state from his medical experts and guide the economy back to life before it’s too late. If you listen to Pelosi, she’d have Trump tank the economy for political purposes, giving 77-year-old presumptive Democrat nominee former Vice President Joe Biden the best shot of beating Trump in November. With an exploding homeless population, people dying in the streets of typhoid and other infectious diseases, letting the economy fail will kill off far more U.S. citizens than the coronavirus. More homeless, more disease, more deaths, more misery happens with a failed economy.
Pelosi doesn’t know what to do about the U.S. economy, other than expand the welfare state, handing cash to the millions of unemployed workers now that Trump’s medical experts have shut down the economy. “That is why we have to get the system really energized and working. Let’s get out those unemployment checks. Let’s get out those direct payments. Let’s get these loans freed up, let the banks be the friends to this whole system that they are,” Pelosi said. Pelosi doesn’t talk about what happens when the $.2.2 trillion bailout runs out, with the federal government and states running out of cash, because there’s no longer any workers left to tax. Whatever sickness and death stems from the coronavirus epidemic, it pales in comparison to the widespread decimation to the American worker, no longer able to put bread on the table. Pelosi’s formula of endless government largess ends in disaster.
Faced with an April 30 deadline for national “shelter in place” orders, Trump must change directions, begin to methodically open up parts of the country less impacted by the CoV-2 national epidemic. Shutting down the economy indefinitely is no answer for an infectious disease crisis, when rent evictions and mortgage defaults drive more people into homelessness when they can’t make their daily, weekly and monthly expenses. Pelosi and other “government will save the day” politicians have no answer when states start running out of money, other the demanding the Federal Reserve Board print more cash. Preserving U.S. democracy is more than issuing relief checks to cash-strapped citizens. Government’s first obligations is to guarantee that business-and-industry provide enough jobs from the U.S. population. Stopping American workers from earning a living can’t go on much longer.
Trump’s biggest challenge is dealing with his medical experts that are only focuses on slowing the spread of cornoavirus, not damaging effects on U.S. citizens to not working. No matter how much government spends, it’s never enough to replace the incomes lost from not working. “The shelter-in-place is making a big difference but we really don’t have an evaluation until we know the extent to the problem: testing, testing, testing,” Pelosi said. Pelosi’s in no position to talk about what more coornovirus testing would do. Over 90% of U.S. citizens infected with coronavirus quarntine at home until the symptoms go away. Only a small fraction require doctor’s visits or hospitalization. Pelosi acts like everyone with coronavirus requires hospitalization and ventilators. Testing is no answer to anything. What’s more testing going to do to get people back to work?
Trump’s medical experts are no substitute for common sense in managing an infectious disease crisis. If state or local governments wish to mandate cloth-or-paper masks to reduce spreading potential infections, that’s a positive step. Reminding citizens to wash hands regularly, not touch faces or get too close in distance to neighbors or coworkers is a good thing. But keeping the U.S. economy shut down has driven million of otherwise able-bodied U.S. citizens into unemployment. With 552,742 citizens living on U.S. streets and 58,936 homeless in Los Angeles, the country can’t afford more citizens driven into poverty and homelessness. “Data, data, data, evidence, science—that is the answer when we can go back,” Pelosi said. Pelosi needs to read the Labor Department’s unemployment data, not how many U.S. citizens have tested positive for Covid-19.
