Sadly, picking Slowly Joe was indeed one of Barry O's best decisions

Barry O doubles down on an idiot
Barry O endorsed Slowly Joe Biden yesterday.  In the process he said picking The Slowly One was one of the best decisions he made.  Sadly, for the worst president ever, that’s a true statement.  Barry O picked one of only a few people in the entire world who could make a boob like him look competent. 

Today’s JG rant
I read with dismay the daily anti-Trump diatribes like Barb Foland Mathews’ “Newspaper’s decision could lead to harm” on Apr 15, 2020 that litter the JG’s letters page.

One thing we all know is true, is that the information concerning the Wuhan Virus has changed with time.  We know that the Chinese and the W.H.O lied about transmutability of the virus. 

We know that PDJT barred flights from China on Jan 31^st. 

We know the Democrat nominee called that move xenophobic before agreeing it was the right thing to do months later. 

We know that Democrats and their MSM lemmings blasted Trump as a racist for what proved to be a lifesaving move. 

We know that as late as Feb 13 and 24, 2020 Mayor De Blasio and Nancy Pelosi were down playing seriousness of the virus and encouraging people to visit their city’s Chinatowns.

We know that when PDJT put together a montage of the MSM downplaying the seriousness of the Chinese Virus the MSM squealed like pen full of stuck pigs.

We know that the models that led to the destruction of the US economy have been proven to be wildly inaccurate. 

We know that none of this will penetrate the hate filled minds of the average anti-Trump JG letter writer.    

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:00 am

Letters

Newspaper's decision could lead to harm

I read with dismay Robert Ragland's “Newspaper feeds irrational hysteria” on April 5.

He Googled and regurgitated many statistics on death rates from influenza but conveniently ignored the fact that, unlike the flu, there is no vaccine for COVID-19, and that the transmission and death rates for the new virus are many times that of the flu. Ragland suggests we can carry on our normal lives and prevent the spread of COVID-19 by practicing good hygiene and by staying home when sick. But clearly staying home when sick is not an effective prevention since there is pre-symptomatic transmission of COVID-19.

Ragland's opinions are dangerous. For weeks our president and many conservative news sources downplayed this crisis, causing irreparable damage before finally beginning to recognize the danger. If The Journal Gazette had printed Ragland's opinions as a letter to the editor, they would have held less weight. But instead the editors chose to highlight his story in a six-column point/counterpoint feature with high visibility in the Sunday paper.

If this article influences even a few of the newspaper's thousands of readers and causes them to treat this situation more casually, it has done great harm. Good journalism should not do harm.

Barb Foland Mathews

Fort Wayne