So, about a month ago Trump launched his travel bans against various affected nations. He was eviscerated for it in the media and by political rivals. While his approach to public relations inspires projectile vomiting (seriously, a 12 year old can give better speeches) it is hard to fault the results of his policies and actions.

Anyone intelligent enough to step away from politics long enough understands that Trump and Pence (particularly that guy) don't know a friggin thing about epidemiology and all of the related sciences. The case would have been the same with Hilary, Bernie, Bush, Clinton...anyone, really. We don't elect multidisciplinary scientists to office, we elect beauty contest winners. The same is true of any governor or city mayor.

Their jobs, from the top down, is to put-up a pretty face, communicate well with the public (this is where Trump just blows it...sounding like a four year old), facilitate funding, meetings, resources and give whatever orders might be required legally.

I think that, for the most part, as soon as things became obvious in China, Trump and company started to execute. The leaders of the CDC and NIH pretty much said so, explaining, for example, that if he had not taken the lead with travel bans we would be dealing with thousands of cases in the US. Which stands to reason, leave entry open and you have no idea who might come in, particularly when our healthcare system might be better able to deal with the situation.

Our politicians need to stop using a world-wide healthcare crisis to dethrone Trump, join ranks, shut the F up, provide funding, resources and whatever might be necessary and do their job.

I truly find what's going on with the media and Democrats to be absolutely disgusting. It's nothing less than opportunistic fear mongering. One has to know that the less sophisticated sections of society, with is the majority and permeates Democrat and Republican camps equally, can easily be driven into panic through these actions. It's irresponsible, at a minimum.

To add to this, this morning I watched Trump's conference (where they discussed the death of that patient in Seattle). Aside from wanting him to get off the microphone to let those with better diction speak, I thought it was good and is something that needs to be done every day. What was interesting is, after that, I switched back and forth between CNN and FOX News. The difference was notable. FOX reported factually and did not engage in stoking flames at all. CNN was full-on fear mongering, using any and all possible distortions of reality to blame Trump for the phase of the moon and everything else as well as everything related to COVID-19. In that very conference, the director of NIH and CDC explained how Trump's travel ban from a month ago likely saved thousands of lives in the US. CNN ignored all of that and pretty much blamed Trump for this death.

It's just crazy, these people needs to get spanked. Enough is enough.

We watch BBC World News most of the time. While every network has bias, we find their coverage to be far more encompassing, reasonable and useful. You watch BBC World News and walk away informed. Watch most US networks and walk away ignorant, confused, biased, angry and without anything useful. It's a shame.