By: Susie Moore – redstate.com – March 19, 2020 One of the byproducts of life in the time of COVID-19 is the faces of the Trump administration — particularly those involved in a health/human services capacity — becoming more familiar to the American people. With daily press conferences and officials doing their best to inform and update the public, we’re seeing/hearing a...

By: Justin Fox – news.yahoo.com – March 19, 2020 Remember a week and a half ago when CNBC’s Rick Santelli said that “maybe we’d just be better off” if we just infected everybody with the coronavirus now? His reasoning: Then in a month it would be over because the mortality rate of this probably isn’t going to be any different if...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – March 17, 2020 The markets are crashing. The NHL season is over. Professional tennis has been postponed. Professional golf—The Masters—has been postponed. The NBA season is over. The MLB season is delayed indefinitely. Globally, this virus has infected over 180,000 people, with a little over 7,500 deaths. In the U.S., there have been 4,800...

By Allie Morris & James Barragán – dallasnews.com – March 19, 2020 Gov. Greg Abbott is temporarily closing schools, restaurant dining areas, gyms and bars statewide in his most sweeping action yet to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. The order is effective early Saturday morning and continues until April 3, he said Thursday. “All jurisdictions must work to contain the...

By: George Parry – spectator.org – March 18, 2020 One of the most difficult problems in assessing the current coronavirus 2019 (hereinafter COVID-19) pandemic is sorting through the conflicting expert opinions and the evolving statistical data that have — with an enormous assist by the mainstream media — plunged our nation into a state of panic and paralysis. How did we get...

BY: Matt Smethurst – thegospelcoalition.org – March 12, 2020 It’s now clear that COVID-19 is a deadly serious global pandemic, and all necessary precautions should be taken. Still, C. S. Lewis’s words—written 72 years ago—ring with some relevance for us. Just replace “atomic bomb” with “coronavirus.” In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are...

By: Jim Geraghty- nationalreview.com – March 16, 2020 As a country, we’ve got our hands full right now. But while we’re sitting in various forms of self-quarantine, we — and a lot of other people around the world — will have a lot of time to read about the Chinese government destroying samples and suppressing information about the coronavirus in December:...

By: Melissa Jeltsen – huffpost.com – March 17, 2020 Last week, Joe Nelson, a physician who provides abortions in Texas, felt a tickle in his throat. Then he started coughing. His temperature soared. On Monday, at his doctor’s office, he tested negative for the flu. Unable to obtain a coronavirus test there, he is now self-quarantining for 14 days. In a...

Matt Vespa – townhall.com – March 17, 2020 The markets are crashing. The NHL season is over. Professional tennis has been postponed. Professional golf—The Masters—has been postponed. The NBA season is over. The MLB season is delayed indefinitely. Globally, this virus has infected over 180,000 people, with a little over 7,500 deaths. In the U.S., there have been 4,800 reported...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – March 17, 2020 Its bad behavior in the wake of COVID-19 will leave it in its weakest global position in memory. And the U.S. will emerge stronger. Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also...