Contemplating the upcoming election today, and the VP debate tonight … It occurred to me that if the Democrats, Harris-Biden team, want to frame the upcoming election purely in terms of Covid-19 ----w/President Trump’s recent contracting of this disease will most certainly further enhance the focus-- then, let’s go there! I would like to emphasize that the projection for loss of American lives from "the scientists" before we knew much about the "novel coronavirus" topped over 2 million, if immediate action was not take to contain the spread of the virus. The projection by scientists for loss of life with containment measures enacted was approximately 200,000, per the scientific models and that is exactly where we sit right now, today. So in what way is that defeat? Answer: it's NOT defeat or failure, unless you factor in media bias and public figure/commentator SPIN. Moreover, as soon as President Trump was given intelligence pointing to China as the source of this new and deadly virus, he took the bold step of stopping all travel into the United States from China, which according to the Journal of Science --in May 2020, I believe-- cut the potential loss of life in the USA due to Covid-19 by an estimated 70%. That is HUGE! And Joe Biden is on record as having vehemently opposed this life-saving and timely travel ban. But let’s stop trying to outdo one another with respect to past performance on the virus, because doing so takes the important FOCUS OFF of painting a CLEAR PICTURE as to what the country will look like in the future, with respect to Covid-19, under each given administration. These choices being: 1) moving foward with a return to normalcy, re-opening our economy, churches and schools, getting on with our lives; or 2) continued shutdowns, fear-mongering, closed schools and churches --but green-light on protests and rioting-- no social gatherings and ongoing infringements on personal liberties under the guise of saving lives.
President Trump has really fueled development on all fronts with respect to Covid-19, from:
1) Financial supplements for individuals and families, to struggling small businesses and targeted large sector companies disproportionately affected, as well as funding for State governments to use and distribute as they see fit toward the end of fighting Covid-19.
2) Manufacturing PPE and other necessary medical equipment (e.g., using the Defense Authorization Bill to enlist private sector companies to manufacture ventilators).
3) Reworking manufacturing and supply chains for medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, to shift away from foreign reliance for these products over to companies located right here in the United States. Where foreign reliance for these critical products –-particularly with respect to China-- poses a very real risk to our national security.
4) But more importantly President Trump has fueled timely research into therapeutics that can be effectively used to treat Covid-19 and he has enabled the rapid development of not ONE, but rather SEVERAL vaccines that have great potential to be effective in treating this disease. Three of these vaccines are ready for rollout in the very near future, within the next month to several months, as they have successfully completed Phase 3 clinical trials.
We now, in the United States, sit at the number of lives lost that was predicted by the models for containment measures enacted. So what stops our death toll from progressing any further? Answer: A VACCINE! Thanks to President Trump, the American people stand a very real chance of being able to receive a vaccine in the next month to months, not in another year or two as it would normally have taken. This prospect alone, of having a vacinne for Covid-19 in our immediate future, is worth voting for a second term of Trump-Pence, from my perspective. My concern moving forward, however, is that a Harris-Biden administration, if elected, would quickly move put the breaks on any vaccine approval. They would of course site the need for “an abundance of caution” before unleashing a vaccine onto the public, thereby conveniently enabling the long and sticky fingers of government bureaucracy to infect the process of the FDA’s release of the vaccine. Why would they do this? Well it would not be out of any great concern for “We the People” – as evidenced by Nancy Pelosi’s contaminating the current Covid Stimulus Package release with provisions for abortions, legalizing ballot-harvesting and doing away with the requirement for voter ID in order to cast a ballot in Federal Elections … all of the latter being wholly unnecessary provisions designed to shoot the bill down, without any reasonable chance of passing so that they can blame President Trump and put a lack of stimulus release into his fail-column heading into the election in about 25 days. Rather, a Harris-Biden administration would most certainly –given their past behavior and statements to date-- delay a vaccine release in order to maintain control over “We the People.” For a people without economic certainty and independence, without the ability to go about their normal lives, without the ability to move about as they please are, by definition, easy to control and to manipulate. This in turn gives those in power a license to enact any and all changes they deem ‘necessary’ (desirable) in order to ensure the survival of their vision of democracy (i.e., Democrats long-term, ongoing retention of power).
Doubt me if you want, but I have witnessed this future in more than one dream. Even if you doubt, if you can entertain the possibility of what I have just suggested you should ask yourself: “Can I continue to live like we have for the last 10+ months? With the economic uncertainties? With a profound lack of freedom to move about and to do the things that I love? With ongoing social isolation? With the doubt in any hope for a return to normalcy?” If you can answer yes to these questions in good conscience, then by all means please do cast your vote for the Harris-Biden administration. If, however, you cannot answer in the affirmative and you want to have HOPE in a vision for your future and the near-term possibility of a return to some form of normalcy, then you must vote for Trump-Pence. You may not always like the WAY the President speaks, but you have to admit that Trump is first and foremost a man of action. President Trump gets things DONE! Moreover, HE DOES WHAT HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO (i.e., President Trump is accountable!). In that respect, Trump is a marked departure from the typical political candidates who trade in empty promises made and seldom kept, those whose policy positions blow with the winds of the audience they happen to be standing in front of at any given moment -- just download the Harris-Biden policy statement from the DNC website and you'll see what I mean, their platform paper and their public statements are at distinct odds on several key issues. I believe this is why those firmly entrenched in the swampy mire of the Washington D.C. establishment despise President Trump so: Trump is, by his resolve and decisive actions a threat to their very way of life. The more you SEE …………….. Now is the time for all good women and men/other to take a step back and connect the DOTS. A vaccine in the near-term is the ONLY way we will return to any form of normal in our near-term future and only one electable administration is openly accountable and committed to getting this vaccine out to the American people in a timely manner.
One last parting thought, in a time of crisis a true leader assesses risk and then takes decisive action based on the information available from the experts surrounding them. A true leader paves the way forward in times of crisis first and foremost by EXAMPLE toward the end of inspiring confidence
--not conformity!-- and stability in times of national trial. A true leader realizes that SCIENCE does not operate within a vacuum (i.e., we must take into account all aspects of life being affected by ongoing shutdown). A true leader does not work to divide --or to sanction the instruments of division (e.g., Democrat funded riots across the nation)-- and they absolutely do not hide away, enjoying protections which "We the People" do not have access to. A true leader will find a meaningful and timely way to hold China accountable for unleashing this pandemic upon the world, such that they will think long and hard before ever contemplating doing this again!
