When is Enough, Enough?

A third attempt was made on President Trump’s life, while attending the White House Correspondents Dinner (for the first time as President). Luckily, the alleged assassin was stopped before he could enter the room, where 2,500 people were in anticipation of the night’s events. There was one minor casualty: a Secret Service agent was shot by the attacker, but his bullett proof vest prevented him from being seriously injured, or killed. The attacker was taken alive, shortly thereafter. This is what occurs when the occupant of the White House is constantly referred to ss a Dictator, Hitler, Fascist, Nazi, well, you see where I’m going. The real issue is how these verbal attacks are magnified and carried on by the same media, many of whom were at that same dinner last evening. With the amount of hate and vitriol hurled his way by not only the media that covers him, but opposition politicians as well who have no shame in the way they refer to him or anyone that works in his administration. These people have put a virtual target on Mr. Trump a well as any of his appointees.

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It’s No Longer Science, It’s a Cult

Follow the science. How often in the past two years have we heard that from our leaders as well as those in our business or social circles? Daily would be a good answer. And in following the science of the Wuhan virus, what have we discovered in those same two years? Well, nothing that we probably didn’t surmise in the first few months of disease. In the early weeks of the pandemic, most of what I heard, or read, made me think that this COVID virus was some sort of vicious form of influenza. There were just too many similarities in the initial analysis and even though we were told, No, this is nothing like influenza, today, two years later, we are indeed discovering that COVID is expected to act like seasonal influenza from here to eternity.

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