Post Scripts

by Jack

• Two downtown business attacked, windows smashed property stolen
• Large banner opposing free needle program stolen

First it was Casey Reynolds ice cream parlor that was attacked.  Her large plate glass front window was smashed out.  Now Ann Schwab’s bicycle business had their front window smashed and bike items stolen.  Oddly, none of the other businesses in the downtown have been attacked.  What’s the connection between these two businesses?  They just happen to be owned by the city council members that have opposed the crazy agenda of liberals, Ory, Stone, Brown and Huber, known as the Filthy Four.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe the “Filthy Four” were directly behind these attacks.  However,  I do suspect there is a connection between their council activities (support for bums and junkies) and a few of the radicals who support them.

A few days ago a billboard south of Chico was damaged and the banner against the needle giveaway program was stolen.  This was a felony too because the loss was over $1000.  makes you wonder what’s next?

IT’S AN OLD PATTERN OF BAD CONDUCT – When I was the Chair of the Butte County Republican Party years back we were the subject of many threats.  One night a group of jeering drunks spilled out of the bar across the street (Duffy’s) and yelled obscenities and politically related insults at me.  They acted like they were going to rush me when I closed up for the evening.  Several days later, in the afternoon, a lady threw dog poop at our literature rack before she ran away.  That year we had a lot of election signs damaged or stolen too.   This gang of rabid liberals have a long history of pushing hate and violence around Chico.  They are relatively few in number, but they are highly motivated and active.  So far they’ve always gotten away with it too.  I don’t understand how responsible democrats could allow themselves to be in any way connected to such vile people.

Posted by Jack

(CNN) China has revised its official death toll from the novel coronavirus, raising the number of fatalities attributed to the pandemic by more than a third.

Officials in Wuhan, where the virus was first reported late last year, on Friday added 1,290 coronavirus deaths to the city’s toll. They also added 325 confirmed cases to the city tally.

The total number of cases recorded in the city now stands at 50,333, with 3,869 deaths.

The previous reported death toll for Wuhan was 2,579 — so the revised figure marks a 50% increase in the number of deaths in the city from coronavirus. As of April 17, China’s National Health Commission had reported 3,342 deaths nationally, before the revised Wuhan figures were published.

Chinese officials quarantined the City of Wuhan into complete isolation closing roads, bridges and highways, but continued to let international flights in and out for another week, before closing the airport.  We now know China delayed notifying the world for 6 days after the virus was detected.

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Remember this?

“Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, accused Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of “grossly inaccurate and irresponsible” rhetoric for claiming that the administration’s updated travel ban affects 350 million people.

And from Forbes Magazine, “Why Travel Bans Don’t Work”

by Judy Stone,  I am an Infectious Disease specialist and author of Resilience: One Family’s Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil and of Conducting Clinical Research, the essential guide to the topic.

The decision to impose a severe travel ban and mandatory quarantines in response to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) flies in the face of public health recommendations, including those from the recent Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security’s “Event 201” pandemic preparedness exercise.

Instead, it appears to be a response to xenophobia from the right wing, as Megan Thielkin noted in Stat.

What we have learned this week argues against these restrictions. The biggest reason is that we now know fairly certainly from the cases in Germany that the virus can be spread before someone has symptoms. In plain terms, “the cat’s out of the bag.” Millions of people have been traveling internationally without any symptoms, or very mild ones they didn’t recognize as significant, before the epidemic was recognized.

by Jack

The good news is, it appears the Corona virus has peaked in a majority of the states.  Of course some states will continue to experience a rise in infections for a short time, but on the whole… we’re getting well, so say our good doctors.

That’s the good news!  The bad news is, what we’ve done to our economy.  What happens after this “virus-crisus” is over?   The pandemic has opened a virtual Pandora’s box of costly things to be dealt with in the near future, not the least of which is a growing dependence on big government.

As always, the democrats took this pandemic crisis as a golden opportunity to spend vast sums of money on things that were important to them, but not necessarily important to the nation.   This spending advanced their agenda for more power, more control and more government, but at the cost of nearly ruining our gross national product.

To avoid the pain from layoffs and temporary business closures, government printed up 2.2 trillion in paper money…that’s pure debt.  Eventually it will be passed along to the next generation because we’ll not live long enough to pay it off.

Because of similar spending around the world we have profoundly damaged our complex business paradigm in ways that could take decades to sort out.  This plays into China’s long term goals, but undercuts America’s.   We’ve been heading to the left for decades, but now thanks to the COVIDS virus the left is sprinting to the finish line to cheers of our citizens who want government to take care of them more than they want the freedom to run their own lives.

They’ve got the basics to survive, they’ve been rewarded with welfare safety nets, bailout money and if they need more money, government will just print more.  This is how socialism works and apparently at least half the nation approves.  Maybe we should be grateful to China for this virus, look at all the free stuff its brought?

Socialism makes a lot of promises.  Life will be less risky with all the so-called free stuff, like free education, free healthcare and more.  However, just understand that we can’t endow government with so much power without the people in power abusing it.   This human nature and history says I’m right.   Look at how the Mayor of Los Angeles abused his power during the quarantine,  ready to bust citizens for minor infractions like swimming at the beach.  And to enforce the new draconian rules special snitch lines to rat out your neighbors have been created.  This was unthinkable a few months ago.  Just show you how fragile our freedoms really are.

As government grows we must adjust to having a little less of everything, it can be no other way.   As the needs of the state get larger your needs get smaller.  History has proven this is how it works, time after time.  Ronald Reagan underscored this truism when he said, “Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction.”

To all our dear POST SCRIPTS friends, Happy Easter!  We hope you are able to get out and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine in good health.   We’re going through some tough times, but it’s almost over and if all goes according to plan, America will be back to work by May.