Keeping Calm and Carrying On

If you are now office at home, perhaps you’ve had a chance to watch the “Coronavirus Update” news conference from the White House briefing room.

Looks like the President and his brilliant team of experts have got a very good grip on how to handle the ongoing spread of the contagion. Looking to keep us calm and to carry on, given the circumstances, is their goal. However, when the briefing is opened to reporters, you would think that these are the end times, based on the questions asked.

Not only are their questions stupid and out of context, their blatant dislike of and partisan bias toward President Trump is clear to even the simplest soul. Rather than thoughtful questions about current actions and future plans, we’re treated to a genius ABC White House correspondent asking why the President referred to the contagion as the “Chinese Virus” and wasn’t that xenophobic racist behavior on his part? That is not an important question.

Wise up! It came from China and referring to it in that manner, is no more xenophobic that calling the 1918 contagion the “Spanish Flu” (which ABC references all the time) and it’s not racist. It’s factual.

Working from home, home schooling and looking at empty supermarket shelves is hardly something that one imagined a couple of weeks ago. The media, populated by partisan dunces, hasn’t helped but instead inflamed the panic mentality of the population by not sticking to the facts but dealing more often in sensation and fear mongering.

Remember, because of the outlandish media dispatches, someone was driven to buy 37 cans of Campbell’s Butternut Squash soup that they really don’t like and when this passes, will realize that it’s not returnable. 

Thanks media.