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2020-02-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fairbanks 2020-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 One of the President's major campaign running points is the success he has enabled our economy to achieve. If the cost of US pharmaceuticals skyrockets, it won't be good for the Orange Man's economy. If the virus 'tanks' the world economy, this will certainly impact his campaign as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-25 00:52|| 2020-02-25 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a race against the pandemic. 8 months till the election, but in reality the ripple effect on the economy requires significant lead time - at least one quarter.

So OrangeMan basically has a grace period until maybe end of June or so.

If the economy can hang in there for 4 more months, he'll be re-elected.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-25 01:31|| 2020-02-25 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Optimistic?! Who are you, and what did you do with our Lex?😊

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-25 01:57|| 2020-02-25 01:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I turned him off after 10 minutes on Monday.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2020-02-25 03:28|| 2020-02-25 03:28|| Front Page Top

#5 If the cost of US pharmaceuticals skyrockets, it won't be good for the Orange Man's economy.

A world-spanning, common man pandemic (not Ebola, not Dengue fever, not HIV) might be a good trigger to Federalize pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-25 08:15|| 2020-02-25 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 The problems with pharmaceutical costs stem from patent abuse and regulation being designed to offer job security to bureaucrats rather than cures to patients.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-25 08:25|| 2020-02-25 08:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Certainly federalizing (aka nationalizing) pharmaceuticals is a talking point that the Dems will latch on to along with "Medicare for All".

We'll just have to see how things shake out.

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-25 08:28|| 2020-02-25 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 1. State is ordered not to send back passengers with the active virus.
2. State contract aircraft with special isolation section
3. State sends infected passengers to the US

Just a mistake like the FISA applications. Sorry, but Rush is right on this one.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-25 08:45|| 2020-02-25 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9
A world-spanning, common man pandemic (not Ebola, not Dengue fever, not HIV) might be a good trigger to Federalize pharmaceutical manufacturing.

What are you going to do, send the Federal Marshalls over to Shanghai to take possession of the plants?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-25 10:28|| 2020-02-25 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10 I think Rush is wrong; I think the bureaucracy/American mandarinate is going to purposefully mismanage this into a local pandemic in an attempt to win the cold civil war in one fell swoop, and turn around and blame Trump at the same time.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-25 10:29|| 2020-02-25 10:29|| Front Page Top

#11 It is a flu. One that is worse than the normal flu as this causes viral pneumonia and allows secondary infections that can shut down organs.

While it isn't the black death, even with a 1% mortality rate in western nations where only the older, younger and chronically sick are hit the hardest we can still see hundreds of thousands if not a million deaths.

The virus isn't the worst part or the most dangerous. It is the panic that comes with it and the shutdown of life and the economy.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-25 10:31|| 2020-02-25 10:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Take yer fingers off the panic button, folks. The panic is the greater danger here.

Do you really want to crater the economy? Risk electing our Lenin impersonator? Really?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-25 10:38|| 2020-02-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#13 I worry that the bureaucrats are letting it in and undertesting to kill lots of people with the result of crashing the economy and getting bernie, among other things. Or some guy like butty-gig, who's probably just as bad as bernie.

Obama was much better at putting a nice face on the communism and sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran.

All the dems are basically nicer versions of Bernie. Even Bloomberg. He isn't suing millions of blue collar workers out of a job because he Lurves Capitalism, guys, it's a Cloward-Piven pivot.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-25 10:50|| 2020-02-25 10:50|| Front Page Top

#14 USA needs to set up a few Ellis Island type entry point for infected or possibly infected. You have to let Americans come home, but you can't just let them go anywhere until we are sure they are clear.

I'm sure a few military bases could provide runways, hospitals, and barracks facilities for this kind of thing.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-25 11:04|| 2020-02-25 11:04|| Front Page Top

#15 There's already 7 or 10 military bases designated and being setup to handle returning Americans exposed to this. All this crap about Trump ignoring it is just that crap. He's doing what can be done at this stage. And the deep state letting this thing get loose isn't going to help their candidates at the polls, besides, I really wonder if they are that stupid because once it's in a population and outside containment, nobody has control over it, so they and their families are at risk. I don't see them playing the game that stupidly.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-02-25 11:48|| 2020-02-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#16 And the deep state letting this thing get loose isn't going to help their candidates at the polls, besides, I really wonder if they are that stupid because once it's in a population and outside containment, nobody has control over it, so they and their families are at risk.

Iran's deputy HEALTH minister tests positive for coronavirus
People who consistently get away with things get stupid.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-25 12:43|| 2020-02-25 12:43|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't see them playing the game that stupidly.

They've been irrationally stupid since 2016. Scorched earth is the strategy or in other terms - if I can't have it no one can. See - numerous cases of useless restraining orders failing to stop a spouse from killing his/her 'loved ones'. Power and control are a powerful drug and withdraw has dangerous side effects and not just for the abuser.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-25 12:47|| 2020-02-25 12:47|| Front Page Top

#18 Sorry folks, this bird has flown. What we see now is mostly useless security kabuki that won't stop the virus, just like you won't stop the common influenza virus.

We better deal with it the same way and go about our daily lives.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-25 14:06|| 2020-02-25 14:06|| Front Page Top

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