Beltway Insider: AMERICA On Alert, CDC Ominous Warnings, Aid Package, Election 2020

President Trump continued measures expected to slow the advancement of the deadly Corona virus, which has stunned the world with its stealth movement as it marches unabated hitting the U.S., on both coasts, with a powerful blow.

The President's job approval rating, according to the website fivethirtyeight.com, which tracked polls of likely or registered voters for the period ending February 23, 2020, increased by 0.8 percentage points to 44.1% of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President and those who disapprove of his effectiveness decreased by 0.3 percentage points to 51.0%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated bi-monthly.

America Closed, Postponed, Suspended and Anxious

Americans, like citizens around the world, are anxious, stressed, concerned, confused, frightened and unsure as life as we knew it has suddenly been completed disrupted, altered to include what many consider draconian measures to stop, slow or stall a virus that is not even the most contagious ever faced.

With an infection rate of 2.1, meaning for every person exposed and infected they will infect two others. The numbers double, four will infect eight, eight will infect 16, and so on. Measles considered the most contagious communicable disease infect on average of 12 persons for every single exposed case.


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Even so, the Coronavirus has no known vaccine and can only be stopped by vigorous community participation. Hand washing, social distancing, and physical protection, masks which cover the nose and mouth, gloves all protections one may have utilized if the Center for Diseases Control and prevention issued a warning regarding an influenza.

By now, in the short time COVID-19 has populated the world map, citizens everywhere are aware the virus is highly contagious and spreads with or without known contact, essentially a first person is not necessary, as the virus moves there are more "community" exposures and infections, meaning the victim has no direct or indirect exposure to an known case.

With the added element of surprise, a domino effect began over the last two weeks, and suddenly, every event where crowds would gather had been cancelled. Sporting events, film festivals, not just in New York City or in Los Angeles, in nearly every corner of the United States, events in which crowds gathered have been cancelled.

This action was followed with crowd limits. Crowd limits only allow for the small number, 200, 100, 50 to risk exposure and infection. This action was followed by school closings, which was followed by in some locations, New York City by movie theaters, concert halls. In California, by Sunday evening social gathering spots, clubs, nightclubs, bars, wineries were ordered closed for until April.

Expect over the next two weeks to see, a dramatic effort to stop the spread of the virus, which may include shuttering all restaurants allowing only take-out or home delivery.

"The federal government's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, did not rule out a temporary nationwide lockdown of restaurants and bars on CNN. The state of Illinois has issued a lockdown of non-essential businesses; in D.C., all nightclubs were shuttered, and bar seating has been banned at restaurants. In New York, the governor ordered restaurants to reduce capacity by 50 percent, while U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has begged diners to "stop crowding bars, restaurants, and public spaces right now," Eater Los Angeles reported.

The motivation behind these mildly "draconian" inconveniences is to stop society from interacting leaving the virus no where to go, the only problem with this theory of course is that all the data used to create the projection models are the estimates of experts who are deducing the values from epidemic history, general history, the history of the Coronavirus, and the estimates of exposure based also on a population who refused to activate any preventative measures to slow the spread.

Adding personal protective measures, simple face masks, gloves, hand washing, hand sanitizer and wiping down any public surface as one uses it, drops the spread and exposure somewhat, and even so the estimates are sobering and somewhat unbelievable almost as if the government is propagating a massive conspiratory lie and even the worst case scenario won't be that bad.

Of course, take away all conveniences for two weeks, and one will see how fast the population will come into line taking responsibility for personal preventive measures and following CDC guidelines.

Below are three estimates of the next 18 months in America.

"Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaking at a congressional hearing on Thursday, said predictions based on models should be treated with caution. "All models are as good as the assumptions that you put into the model," he said, responding to a question from Representative Rashida Tlaib about an estimate from the attending physician of Congress that the United States could have 70 million to 150 million coronavirus cases. What will determine the ultimate number, he said, "will be how you respond to it with containment and mitigation," reported the New York Times.


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"Dr. James Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist and public health expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center said Hospitals "need to start working now to get prepared to take care of a heck of a lot of people." He recently presented his own "best guess" projections to American hospital and health system executives at a private webinar convened by the American Hospital Association. He estimated that some 96 million people in the United States would be infected. Five out of every hundred would need hospitalization, which would mean close to five million hospital admissions, nearly two million of those patients requiring intensive care and about half of those needing the support of ventilators. Dr. Lawler's calculations suggested 480,000 deaths, which he said was conservative," reported the The New York Times.

"The C.D.C.'s scenarios were depicted in terms of percentages of the population. Translated into absolute numbers by independent experts using simple models of how viruses spread, the worst-case figures would be staggering if no actions were taken to slow transmission. Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die," the New York Times reported.

Outside of personal preventative measures, prayer, and vigorously incorporating the suggested recommendations into daily life, there is no other method of avoiding exposure and possible infection. Take each day as it comes. Actively employee those personal preventative measures today, and deal with tomorrow, tomorrow. 

Governors, Mayors Rush into Uncharted Territory

The Corona virus panic, with the impending doom attached to each successive order, has many looking out the window waiting for the sky to fall or the Angel of death to roll through the streets snatching those who have not heeded the words of the wise.

The recent rush by several governors, and mayors of major cities to close nearly every venue where individuals gather now seems more than mildly draconian.

Being an informed citizen and fully aware of the projected numbers, the curve, the spike, the prolonged surge, the tsunami, the truth is that no person knows how this virus will move across the nation. There is no viral radar or privileged information explaining its movement.

Where there is one case, the odds are clear, unless each citizen employees personal preventative measures, it will spread. The lock downs are akin to locking the barn door after the horse has escaped.


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The real question becomes as a nation are our elected officials willing to bankrupt businesses and industries to stop the advancement of a virus based on information that no one, not even the experts who admit a lack of exact knowledge, can provide an actual concrete answer on how long it COVID-19 will be on the horizon? Is it only a two-week spike, a six-month prolonged surge, or longer?

These experts are providing guidelines to governments officials who are basing these concerning, infringing and potentially bankrupting decisions on untested, module and best or worst case scenario information. 

It is more than casually disruptive. Disruptive is backed-up traffic, cities shutting down, is dictatorial.

Clearly, the example of containment the administration is basing these preventive and imposing restrictions are ground zero in the viral outbreak, Wuhan, China.

After the spike in cases, with numbers nearing 80,000 infected (of the current 129,000 globally infected) the Chinese government forced a total and complete closure of the city, forcing self-isolation, and going door-to-door checking for symptoms,  and in fact the entire nation suffered nearly the same containment seal.  These measures were effective in slowing the advancement of the virus. The Chinese, quite possibly, are accustomed to having government act without explanation. Here, in the United States, it is, or should be, a little different.

In America, if the impending doom associated with the virus doesn't materialize, many will rethink their vote as it will be considered a government sponsored hoax supported by the current administration to guarantee reelection of the sitting president.

Of course, the COVID-19 cases are real. The virus is a real threat, as are measles, as is Candida auris, labeled a drug resistant fungal infection so contagious that once a patient has it, every item the patient touches becomes contaminated. And yet no one has heard of it.

Without the definitive and concrete evidence, an exactness, the idea of preventative measures that encroach on liberties become the boy who cried wolf.


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Election 2020: Biden, Sanders Vie for Democratic Prize, Trump Expecting Re-Election

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders continued their push during the Sunday night debate, which for the first time in nearly 70 years, was held without a studio audience due to the coronavirus.

Even as the debate went on, the entire process has become overshadowed by the impending dooms day ticking clock that just about every leader has embraced.

Arizona, Ohio, Florida, Illinois are all holding primaries. Get out and vote, exercise social distancing, and don't allow anything, including the COVID-19 virus to suppress your right to vote.

President Trump, who in the middle of this Corona virus pandemic, is continuing his effort for reelection.  Many would look back over the last four years as the impeached president survived, by the grace of a Republican senate, the attempts to have him removed from office.

His goal, to hold onto the office of the Presidency, is his singular priority as it was in the 2016 election. Employing hostile takeover tactics, fear mongering, and treacherous, or a surreptitious plan formulated in secret to secure the prize is not beyond him.

For more information on President Donald Trump www.whitehouse.gov.

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