Coronavirus Has a Silver Lining
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
3/3/2020 4:32:31 AM
Disease is bad, but coronavirus has some positive aspects. It has exposed the frailty of the Communist Chinese regime, which reportedly is now sending some of the one million Uyghurs they have been holding in concentration camps to factories that have been vacated on account of the virus. No doubt Tom Friedman and other Democratic advocates for the Communist regime will hail this as one more sign of the superiority of autocratic states.
Most Americans, happily, don’t see it that way. Gallup finds that for the first time in 13 years, most Americans think the U.S., not China, is the world’s leading economic power. They are right, of course, and someday
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/3/2020 6:09:29 AM (No. 335201)
I might add that the other aspect of the silver lining is the awareness that our borders need some form of control or consistency or civility? I am not certain these are the words I am looking for. America's land, air, and sea are entryways and exits. We need to protect them and our people. Glad we have a President who is trying to keep America great. . .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/3/2020 6:30:09 AM (No. 335209)
It's pretty sad to see the self doubt Americans had that pretty much tracks BO's presidency. When you have a president that continually says the Country isn't all that exceptional, great, or good it is poison to its people. BO attempted to withdraw the US from the world stage because the US was "bad" for the rest of the world. When the president hates his Country, it's not surprising the people have doubts.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MattMusson 3/3/2020 6:41:56 AM (No. 335217)
It was only two years after Chernobyl that the Soviet Union collapsed. It is not improbable that China will fracture into multiple sub-states with this virus as the trigger.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/3/2020 6:49:50 AM (No. 335223)
Think back to the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s - - when all the expert pundits - - the esteemed sovietologists and kremlinologists - - and assorted other international wizards - - all believed that the mighty Soviet Union would momentarily overtake the United States as the world's greatest power.
There was only one man - - one man who was considered to be a buffoon - - who knew that this wan't true - - who knew how weak and anemic the commie regime was. And guess what? That buffoon - - our beloved Ronald Reagan - - was the only one who was right - - and all of the whiz-bangs were dead wrong.
Reagan's strategy to defeat and wipe out the commies - - without firing a single shot - - was possibly the greatest political achievement of all time.
Who really believes that today's geniuses are any brighter than those geniuses of yore?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 3/3/2020 7:00:25 AM (No. 335237)
Can this country supply the labor required for an industrial renaissance? I have some doubts as over my carrier I have known many business owners and without exception their biggest complaint was the difficulty of finding and hiring good employees. And I mean the basics like actually showing up for work on time or at all, the inability to pass a drug screen, working two days and quitting because it is too much like (you know) work. I have been told they can go through 50 to 100 applicants before they find someone with even the very basic skills or the desire. Another one,(I have no experience but make me a manager type crap.) Lets face it, we have a whole class of people in this country who just don't want to work.
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When I studied Econ in college we were told that an unemployment rate of around 4.7 Percent was full employment because many people don’t want or can’t work. Now we have millennials as an answer for employers! I’m retired! So glad!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rather Read 3/3/2020 8:01:36 AM (No. 335303)
# 5 is right. I have a cousin who started a very successful small business. He said his biggest problem was finding people who could pass the drug test, come to work on time and work.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
little guy 3/3/2020 8:26:08 AM (No. 335334)
Another good thing is the virus seems to be picking off Iranian "leaders".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 3/3/2020 8:46:06 AM (No. 335357)
Hell yes #5 & #7. I just went through replacing 60% of an ageing workforce and I can assure you that finding people who can show up five days a week, show up on time, and stay off their effing phones is challenge one two and three.
One of my best workers took about six months to figure out that the work week includes Monday. You have to place your bets on who can be led into the adult world and who cannot. Oddly I did better with fresh HS graduates than "experienced" yet young people. If I washed out people in the first 90 days based on the same expectations and criteria that served me in the not so distant past I'd be nowhere yet. I had to adapt or fail.
#1 Agree! Iranians are on our Southern border right now, if this doesn't turn the light on what will.
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When I look at the coronavirus map, I see that the hotspots are states that have a lot of foreign immigrants...both Washington and California encourage that influx; Texas does not, but gets it anyway.
Democrats love their globalism. Our uniparty politicians have been taking money from China for decades and now the high price will be paid. China can hold us hostage by withholding medical supplies and drugs. At least Trump has gotten us away from energy dependence on the middle east. Now is the time to get safe pharmaceutical production on site here in the U.S.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/3/2020 9:20:58 AM (No. 335410)
The corona virus also has another silver lining. It is spreading through the Iranian parliament with Khamenei's top advisor already having been dispatched due to the virus. Wonder how it is going in North Korea with Kimmie and his generals.
Corona could be a game changer for China. I wonder how the virus just happened to "escape" from that bio-weapons lab in Wuhan.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NancyD 3/3/2020 9:32:56 AM (No. 335429)
I guess there is proof that Iran is in bed with the Chinese. How else did their Parliament all come down with coronavirus?
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Senator Murphy (D-CT) just met with the Iranian leaders who just died of Corona virus, in said leader's hotel room.
Along with (I believe) John Kerry and the usual traitors.
So, we also have that to hope for.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jebediah 3/3/2020 9:55:49 AM (No. 335458)
My feeling is that the silver lining, at great cost, is that we will finally wake up (Trump already had and was repatriating companies as fast as he and incentives could) and bring manufacturing home........we are in thrall to our enemies and our "lesser" friends (Europe).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
msjena 3/3/2020 10:43:21 AM (No. 335531)
Not saying it's a silver lining, but I think the Pope has the virus.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
gop_guys 3/3/2020 10:53:35 AM (No. 335544)
Sad to see the decline began during the Bush years beginning in 2000. China producing 80% of our pharmaceuticals is another huge concern. Trump’s election was provide!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
gop_guys 3/3/2020 10:55:14 AM (No. 335548)
...providential. Sheesh.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
gone2pot 3/3/2020 11:27:34 AM (No. 335587)
A thousand people died of swine flu before The Holy Hawaiian released any funds to fight that flu and before he did anything whatsoever to combat that flu. Twelve thousand died from West Nile during The Holy Hawaiian's reign. Ever read or hear a negative Obama story about that while he was president? No. Trump put a travel ban on China in early January because of the corona virus and was lambasted by the Marxists, Marxist Republicans and of course the Marxist media as a xenophobe and racist. Now, he is being blamed for incompetence in his response to the corona virus with as of now, six Americans died. Yet, Trump is in the wrong with a deep state controlled CDC. And Powerline says it's good because Gallup has a poll wrt USA vs China's economic power as if a poll makes a nation's economy more or less powerful? Has THAT poll been reported by the MSM? Of course not. So, what the hell is the point of this article? Corona virus is good in some ways? Perfect.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
curious1 3/3/2020 11:56:42 AM (No. 335619)
#5,7 &10. Eliminate the welfare state.
When you know you have to show up on time and actually work to keep the job, so you don't starve - well, that is just the powerful motivator some losers need to clean up their act.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 3/3/2020 12:21:25 PM (No. 335666)
More pressure to disconnect our product supply chains from China are an unalloyed good.
China is the enemy, we should never send them money for any reason.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 3/3/2020 1:52:28 PM (No. 335785)
#5, with 50 million babies murdered, there is a real worker shortage. One of the biggest unintended consequences of abortion is killing off your next gen of workforce.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/3/2020 3:32:37 PM (No. 335862)
All those Chinese tanks and guns are powerless to stop a virus. They could try turning those guns on anyone possibly infected to contain the virus. Wouldn't put it pass them. They rule through tyranny.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/3/2020 5:48:51 PM (No. 335953)
Posters #5 and #7 are correct. #6: I was working part-time in college (about 45 years ago) for a large department store. I was talking with the store’s personnel manager one day, and another employee was talkng with us about the unemployment rate, which was then about 6%. The old personnel guy said “that means it’s 3%.” We asked how that could be. He said “I’ve been a personnel guy for 40 years, and I’m here to tell you, 3% of the population is unemployable!” Some thngs never change.
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