Two Important Things...

Two very important things happened this past January, 15th.  One was widely reported.  The other, ummm, not so much...

On January, 15th, just 12 weeks ago, one Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Speaker of the House, signed the Articles of Impeachment on President Donald J. Trump.  Remember?  That's when she passed out gold pens after that signing ceremony, reportedly costing us, the U.S. taxpayers, more than $15,000.  Fifteen Grand for gold-plated pens.  It was a "somber" day.  Or, it was supposed to be.  The scarcely muffled laughter ensued from Democrat leadership at the signing ceremony...

On that very same day a Chinese national deplaned at Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle, Washington.  He arrived from Wuhan Province, China.  He was later named "Patient Zero" by the World Health Organization on our nationwide fight to defeat the Wuhan Chinese Coronavirus.  He's the guy who came ashore already infected with COVID-19.*  He's the guy who visited that nursing home and dealt it the killing blow; 27 of their elderly patients died within days.  For the first few days of the pandemic it was responsible for more than half of all deaths.  

It was fully 20 days after that fateful January 15th date that Trump was finally declared innocent of the bogus impeachment scam, and the first day the House held a hearing on the virus.  They were pretty busy up until then...  

That same day, February 5th, is the day that Trump stopped all incoming flights from China in an effort to control the outbreak.  

He was labeled a "racist" by Democrat POTUS candidates for so doing, including Joe Biden, as well as by the DNC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Vox, Politico, plus all the Alphabet Channels, and nearly every Democrat in America.  

Seven days later Trump closed off all incoming flights from Europe.  He was once again declared a "racist" by all of the above mentioned usual suspects.  So what else is new?

And so began our long national nightmare.  Businesses are ordered to close.  Restaurants are shut down.  Our people have been told to go home and stay there.  Folks began hoarding toilet paper.  America is officially "out of business."

Just a few months ago our Country was basking in its greatness.  The Dow was flirting with 30,000, a more than one-third increase in just the past three years.  Our fine military had been largely rebuilt, a far cry from the deteriorated state it was in only recently.  Hundreds of job-killing rules and regulations and stultifying Executive Orders had been cancelled.  Unemployment for all classes of Americans was at an all-time low.  Individual, middle-class wages were at an all-time high.  America was the envy of the entire world.

Now?  It's World War III.  The U.S. has taken its usual leadership role in fighting this scourge.  Public-private partnerships have been formed to manufacture millions of face masks and tens of thousands of ventilators.  Our two hospital ships have been deployed, one to Lost Angeles, the other to New York City.  A crack team of epidemiologists has been given the job of leading this charge, aided by V.P. Mike Pence, who's taken the helm of this war.  A $2.2 Trillion Dollar initial recovery bill has been signed into effect, which should quickly shovel money into the hands of the innocent workers and business owners who've been dealt this awful blow.  

It's as if America's Government flew an F-16 into your house, and now they have to pay to have it fixed.

With exception of the so-called "MainStreamMedia," as is listed above, Trump and his team have been getting high marks on their handling of this crisis.  Even from some "blue" state governors, including Cuomo in New York and Newsom in California.  But once this National Nightmare is over, I think there will be plenty of time to assign success or failure to our elected leaders.  

And that group would include one San Fran Nan Pelosi and her "golden pens..."  

*  "COVID-19" stands for COronaVirusIDisease-number 19.