Some elected offi cials have
used the desperation of Americans
for funds, while their
businesses are closed and
their jobs are suspended, for
partisan purposes. This has
been largely ignored by the
media. Similarly, the culpability
of some politicians in allowing
the pandemic to spread
in the regions they manage
has not been adequately discussed.
There has not been ample
coverage of the actions by
Speaker Pelosi, who threatened
the urgently needed
CARES Act by attempting to
include measures that would
have the practical effect of encouraging
voter fraud and increase
her party’s chances of
winning the 2020 election. Nor
has there been suffi cient analysis
of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez’s absurd bid to include
illegal aliens in the distribution
of stimulus checks.
Largely absent from the
unctuous comments by television
journalists is the role
played by irresponsible electeds
and pundits who vehemently
criticized President
Trump in January when he
closed off travel to the United
States from China. They have
not acknowledged their mistake
in calling him “xenophobic”
and “racist” for taking a
stand that they irrationally
proclaimed, at the time, to be
unnecessary.
New York City has indeed
been the epicenter of America’s
COVID infection. It is
time for a blunt and honest
discussion why. The astounding
irresponsibility of statements
made by New York City
offi cials earlier this year urging
large-scale participation
in crowd-heavy events such as
the Chinese Lunar New Year,
and to use the subways to
travel to them, has been conveniently
forgotten by media
moguls.
While some localities logically,
prudently and timely
closed their school systems in
the face of the pandemic, NYC
Mayor de Blasio insisted on
keeping them open. He only
relented when forced to do
so in the face of a threatened
law suit by teachers, and the
increasing trend of parents
to wisely keep their offspring
home.
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Mayor de Blasio’s hometown
newspaper, the New York
Post reports that “A pregnant
teacher who was hospitalized
for COVID-19 says the city refused
to close her Brooklyn
school — even after she turned
over positive lab results —
while fi ve colleagues also fell
ill from the virus… ‘I had a
lab report and a letter from
my doctor. It still wasn’t good
enough,’ the fourth-grade special
ed teacher told The Post.”
The Post also noted that
as late as March 13, de Blasio
urged city residents to “carry
on with their normal lives.”
While inexcusably slow to
take necessary steps to contain
the disease’s progress,
de Blasio, Pelosi and others
moved swiftly to ram their
wholly unrelated agendas
down the throats of Americans
who have repeatedly rejected
them.
Particularly notable is their
anti-law enforcement agenda.
Long before the COVID crisis,
de Blasio and a number of left
wing offi cials across the nation
pushed the radical notion
of releasing many offenders
from jail. They seek to do so in
order to shift spending from
incarceration to the largescale
government programs
they favor. While eagerly releasing
thugs and predators
from correctional facilities,
the same leftist politicians
seek to diminish the ability
of honest citizens to protect
themselves by exercising their
Second Amendment rights.
The ultimate responsibility
for the plague rests with China’s
governing Communist
Party, which intentionally hid
the outbreak, resulting in a
planetary pandemic. Instead
of delving into that reality
at presidential press conferences,
the White House press
corps instead levies charges of
racism against Trump for correctly
calling the contagion
the “Chinese Virus,” in the
same way that MERS, (Middle
Eastern Respiratory Syndrome)
is named after the region
in which it originated.
“Never waste a good crisis”
preached Obama adviser
Rahm Emmanuel. The medical
and fi nancial agony of
Americans apparently was
just too good a crisis for the
left to not use for their partisan
goals.
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