Something Fishy Indeed

I don't believe that the whole corona thing is fake, that would be just paranoid, but I do believe that some politicians, and not just Trump, are trying to spin this thing to their own advantage.  I think our governor means well, but she also seems to be using this as an excuse to expand her powers a bit.  You guys know how I feel about the rule of law, and Gretchen seems to have found a loophole.  Whether or not it will stand up in court remains to be seen.  Gretchen knows this so, when faced with a court challenge, she backed down just enough to render the case moot.  Coincidence? I think not!

Then there's the numbers.  I find it hard to believe that the U.S. has had more corona deaths than Red China.  Of course, you can't believe anything those commies say.  But what about Hong Kong?  Last I heard, they were semi-autonomous and were rioting in the streets in an attempt to put more distance between them and the central government.  Well they're not rioting in the streets anymore because the virus hath made cowards of them all.  How convenient for the central government!  Be that as it may, last I heard, Hong Kong, which has approximately 3/4 of the population of Michigan, was reporting only four deaths total, while Michigan was reporting over 200 deaths per day.  A week or so ago it went down to less than a hundred for a few days, and then spiked right back up, admittedly because they had started testing dead people "after the fact".  It occurred to me that I don't know how many people were dying per day in Michigan before the corona hit the fan. Does anybody?

I heard on the TV news this evening that Sweden is not locking down at all.  They figure that this virus is not going away anytime soon, so they'd better find a way to deal with it without wrecking their economy.  They have about the same population as Michigan, but are reporting substantially lower numbers than Michigan is.  The U.K. had a similar plan going, until their prime minister himself came down with a severe case of the virus.  That was three weeks ago, and he's doing much better now and plans to return to work tomorrow.  Funny that the British P.M can recover from a severe case in three weeks, while only 8,000 of the 38,00 cases in Michigan have recovered in twice that time.

After the Brits abandoned their attempt to build a "herd immunity" by letting Nature take its course, they realized that they would need way more test kits than they had, so they bought a couple million of them from Red China.  I am not making this up!  The Reds demanded payment in advance and guaranteed that the tests would be 80% to 90% accurate.  When the tests turned out to be only 40% accurate, the Brits asked for a refund, but I don't think they got one.  Meanwhile, the Germans manufactured their own test kits, enough for every man, woman, and child in Germany, but not enough to share with their E.U. partners.