Taking a respite from our Wuhan virus obsession, and our never-ending “stay at home” lives, some things that really matter happened this week.  Return with me now to those days of yore when we were pondering the nature and extent of Il Duce Obama’s interference in the election of 2016.  To recap, before he left office in January 2017, Il Duce took a number of actions designed to hamper or derail the Trump Administration.  In early January, Obama changed a 30 year old policy that restricted the release of raw intelligence data, permitting unverified intelligence information to be released to 17 different agencies, and thereupon leaked with impunity.  Prior to that, during the 2016 campaign, we know that the CIA, FBI and Justice Department were spying on the Trump campaign, by means of FISA surveillance warrants.  Thanks to the tireless efforts of Devin Nunes, John Solomon, Sara Carter and others, we now know that the Democrats used the unverified and unverifiable Steele dossier to get the warrants, misrepresenting the information to the Court as “verified.”  This is what lawyers call false swearing, what judges call contempt of court, and is the kind of thing that ordinarily tends to get one fined, disbarred and/or prosecuted and imprisoned.  It’s the last thing that the U.S. Justice Department should be doing to any American, much less to a presidential candidate in the heat of a campaign.  We now know that Il Duce Obama was involved in the spying up to his scrawny neck and outsized ears.  Of course, those of you who read Frank on Friday were not surprised.  As Casey Stengel might say, “You could look it up.”  On 3/10/17, I wrote, “Obama’s fingerprints are on the Flynn leaks.”  On 2/9/18,  “Obama and Lynch approved everything.”  On 6/1/18, in  Spy vs Spy, on Susan Rice’s 1/20/17 self-serving Memo, “President Obama began the conversation by  stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’.  “President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”  The Rice Memo is tantamount to an admission that Obama was part of the conspiracy.  The fish does stink from the head.”  Remember  Obama’s words, “as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”  In other words, “after I’m gone, keep information from the new president.”  Comey obeyed, purposely refusing to brief Attorney General Sessions about the investigations.  And the FBI did much worse.  After Trump won, his incoming National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn, was targeted by the FBI for investigation, was fired, and later prosecuted by Bob Mueller for allegedly lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview.  Bankrupted by his lawyers (Covington & Burling – perhaps not coincidentally the firm of former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder), Flynn had to sell his home, and after the “Justice” Department threatened to imprison his son, agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI.  The Democrat world was so pleased that a good man’s life’s work was ruined.  Thankfully, Flynn fired his lawyers, hired Sydney Powell, and she dug into the steaming turd pile at the FBI.  Despite the best efforts of the FBI to hide the information, we now have gotten revelations that have caused the Justice Department to move to dismiss Flynn’s pending case.  Flynn had worked for, and was fired by, Obama.  Obama hated Flynn, who had dared to suggest that Il Duce was wrong for paying the Iranians hundreds of billions of dollars.  Obama advised Trump not to hire Flynn, and when he did, Flynn became a target of the FBI.  The FBI completed their investigation by January 4, 2017, finding no wrongdoing, and the case was to be closed.  But not so fast, FBI agent, and well-known adulterer, Peter Strozk intervened on January 4, and ordered the case kept open.  The next day, Obama met in the Oval Office with Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Comey, Susan Rice and Joe Biden (who no doubt doesn’t remember).   Obama told Yates and Comey, who were staying after January 20, he knew about Flynn’s (perfectly legal) phone call to the Russian Ambassador, and said he wanted information on whether the White House “should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information.”  That Obama was in control of the investigation was also confirmed in the Strozk/Page text messages, “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing.”  On January 23, the FBI leaked word that its investigation of Flynn found he’d done nothing wrong.  The next day, they ambushed Flynn, sending agents to question him, telling him he didn’t need a lawyer.  The agents reported Flynn told the truth.  Someone in the FBI later changed the incident report, and Mueller later prosecuted him.  The FBI, and Flynn’s own former lawyers, hid the truth from Flynn, and from the court.  Attorney General Barr found out and blew the whistle, deciding to dismiss Flynn’s case.  Democrats are outraged, chief among them, Il Duce Obama.  In a “leaked” (what else) phone call, Il Duce warned that the “rule of law is at risk” in the wake of the unprecedented move by the Justice Department to drop the Flynn charges.  Uh, Duce, when there’s no credible evidence of wrongdoing, and the government has a better criminal case against its own employees than the defendant, a dismissal is not only precedented, it’s requierd.  The rule of law isn’t at risk, the Democrat reign of terror is at risk.  Back to the Duce, “And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free.”  Uh, Duce, two things.  First, Flynn was never charged with perjury.  Lying to FBI agents who later lie in their reports, lie to the court, and then railroad you isn’t perjury.  (So much for Harvard Law School).  Obama’s leaked call proves two things.  Obama was never much of a lawyer, and his real concern is that “the rule of law” is coming for him and his cronies.  The “I was just following orders” defense didn’t work at Nuremberg.  Some people need to go to jail.

After watching and hearing the recent mumbles, stumbles and gibberish emanating from presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, I was reminded of a quote from heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.  In 1941, Louis was to fight a lighter and faster opponent, Billy Conn.  The challenger announced he would use a “hit and run” strategy.  Louis’ famous response was,”He can run, but he can’t hide.”  Conn’s tactic worked for almost 13 rounds, before Louis knocked him out.  Given Biden’s current condition, I have come to the conclusion that he can hide, but he can’t run.  In the wake of the Wuhan virus, Joe Biden took to heart Delaware’s March “stay at home” order, and has been locked in his basement ever since.  I always suspected that Democrat governors were playing “follow the Leftist leader” with their repressive orders.  Delaware Governor Carney has admitted as much, “Neighboring states have taken similar actions, and we don’t want Delaware to become a destination for residents of other states seeking a more permissive environment.”  Translation – “We can’t permit people to escape to a State where the Bill of Rights is still in effect.”  It’s nice that Governor Carney considers Delaware “a destination” rather than just a toll road lying between New Jersey and Maryland.  Anyhow, Joe Biden remains locked in his basement.  On April 7th he even realized it, noting, “I know I’m locked in the basement.”  This prompted the Trump campaign to wonder, “Are they worried he will wander off and get lost?”  That seems to be a real possibility, because, during his infrequent video “basement-side chats,” Biden has repeatedly given the distinct impression that his elevator no longer goes to the top floor.  Biden conducted a disastrous virtual town hall meeting on March  20.  Forgetting that he called Trump’s January 31 China travel ban “xenophobic,” he claimed Trump didn’t act fast enough.  Pitching a nationwide shutdown, Biden explained, “Here is the point.  You don’t know who doesn’t have the virus.  So, a lot of people walking around looking like they’re pretty healthy and they may very well have the virus and transmit it.”  Huh?  On the air, Biden has made a series of blurt-outs, followed by disclaimers of his own words.  Of President Trump, he asked, “Why doesn’t he just act like a president?”  Quickly adding,  “That’s a stupid way to say it.”  When asked to elaborate, Biden decided, “No, probably best that I don’t.”  I guess he lost his place.  Again, Biden on Trump, “It’s like watching a yo-yo.  I shouldn’t have said it that way.”  Must have misplaced the cue cards.  Harkening back to the campaign trail, where he repeatedly told people he was running for the Senate, Biden explained his position on the Wuhan virus, “I insisted … well I didn’t insist, I suggested when it all started in Luhan province.”  Clear?  Biden is so confused that sometimes he slips and lets the truth come out.  Told that Trump’s approval rating had risen to 49%, Biden responded, “Well I hope that he’s so strong that he’s up way above that.”  Biden’s commentary often transforms into word salad, “And, in addition to that, in addition to that we have to make sure that we, we are in a position that we are, well let me go the second thing, I’ve spoken enough on that.”  Is it the first thing or the second thing, Joe?  While hosting Hillary Clinton on the basement-cam, Biden appeared to fall asleep.  Biden has confused Massachusetts governor Baker with Charlie Parker.  In the friendly confines of The View,  Biden reasoned, “We have to take care of the cure, that will make the problem worse, no matter what.”  Huh?  And Joe’s a constitutional scholar.  Here he is on the preamble to the constitution,“We hold these truths to be selfel-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”  A far cry from the Gettysburg Address.  Apparently forgetting his recent pronouncement that China is not a risk to the U.S., and that his son is in business with the Chinese government, Biden warned, “We need to get tough with China.  China poses a serious challenge to us, and in some areas a real threat.”  Criticism of Biden’s mental state is coming from unexpected quarters.  Anti-Trump writer Ted Rall warns, that Democrats are “engineering the presidential election of a man clearly suffering from dementia.” Biden’s gaffes have prompted CNN and NBC journalist Steve Krakauer to write, “Look, I think we as a society should respect our elders.  But there’s just something wrong with Joe Biden.” After Biden’s Super Tuesday victories, Tucker Carlson noted, “As a smart friend said last night, Joe Biden has spent his entire life trying to succeed in presidential politics, and now he has:  Too bad he’s not there to enjoy it.”  Britt Hume has been even more blunt, “recently we have seen cases in which he didn’t know where he was.  Those are more disturbing because they suggest he may be non compos mentis.  Biden’s message doesn’t play well with millennial voters, “His social media presence is pathetic.”  A NY millennial said, “Vote for me to get rid of Trump” doesn’t resonate with him or his friends.  An ABC and Washington Post survey shows 53% of Trump supporters are very enthusiastic, while only 24% of Biden supporters are enthused.  That spells trouble.  On top of all this, pile the Tara Reade sexual assault accusation.  Biden denies it, but either can’t or won’t remember where Reade’s official Complaint was filed or has been stored.   Biden said it never happened, but then suggested that any records should not be released while he is running for office because, “they could be taken out of context … they could be fodder.”  Context?  Fodder?  This latest scandal has convinced more than 25% of Democrats that they need a new presidential candidate.   Joe Biden has shown a proven ability to hide in the basement, but he can’t run a presidential campaign in the light of day.  For my part, I hope Uncle Joe hangs on.  Once he gets in the ring with the current heavyweight champ, he won’t last 13 rounds.  He can hide, but he can’t run.

In New Jersey, the new epicenter of the Wuhan virus, there’s no end in sight to our “shelter at home” lock down,  but I’m pleased to note that we have completed our quarantine.  No, the Governor hasn’t released us from durance vile, but quarantine is over.  “Quarantine” derives from the Italian word “quaranta,” which means forty.  It dates back to the good old days in Europe, when plague after plague depopulated the countryside.  Originally, confinement was 30 days and therefore was called a trentino.  But politicians  then were much like politicians now, so they extended the confinements to 40 days.  Why?  Then, as now, no one can tell you.  If I had to guess, I’d blame the church.  There are too many references to 40 in the Bible for this to be a coincidence.  Noah was on the Ark 40 days.  Moses was on Mt. Sinai 40 days.  Jesus was in the wilderness 40 days, and was on Earth 40 days after the resurrection.  The Jerusalem Temple was destroyed 40 years after the crucifixion.  Muslims got in the act too; Muhammad was 40 years old when he received the revelation from the archangel Gabriel, a/k/a Jibril.  In New Jersey, we were locked up on March 21.  So quarantine ended April 30.  They told us just to stay home to flatten the curve, and we did that.  Hospitals did not get overwhelmed.  NY is closing the hospital in the Javits Center and sending the hospital ship away.  Trump sent them so many ventilators they finally told him to stop.  So that’s it, right?  We can come out now and survey the wreckage.  Not so fast!  The “experts” have other ideas.  Robert Redfield of the US Centers for Disease Control says we can’t reopen without scaled-up contact tracing and increased testing.  Contact tracing entails interviewing everyone diagnosed with Wuhan and finding other people who came in contact with them.  A former chief of the CDC says this will require an “army” of 300,000 contact tracers.  Johns Hopkins says we’ll need at least 265,000 to match the tracing done in Wuhan, China.  That’s probably a low number, considering that all they did in Wuhan was seal people in their apartments and wait for them to die.  This is not just a proposal.  Massachusetts already has budgeted $44 million to hire 1,000 tracers.  Now, it happens that about 40 million people are out of work, so we could hire a few hundred thousand new government employees.  Trump has his Space Force, so why not the Fauci Trace Force?  Of course, it will take some time to get Congress to fund it, write the regulations,  find and train the tracers.  People are itching to break out now, so I don’t think they’ll be willing to wait that long.  Let’s face it.  If the Trace Force already existed, who among us is willing to sit docilely at home waiting for a federal (or State) bureaucrat to do his job, and then for his supervisor, and then his supervisor, to approve it, and then for the Trace Force to send out the results?  I won’t.  But let’s pretend the Trace Force actually exists.  How would it do its job?  The Mayo Clinic says, once someone has been identified as infected, the Trace Force tries to track down others who have had recent prolonged exposure to that person when they may have been infectious.  That means being within 6 feet of the person for more than 10 minutes, or in a health care setting, for five minutes.  Piece of cake, right?  “Okay, you tested positive (UNCLEAN!), so now give me a list of every person you have come within 6 feet of since you were infected, keeping in mind that there is no way to know when you became infected.”  Easy.  But fret not.  You’re not expected to keep a running list of everyone who comes within 6 feet of you for an undetermined period of time, although some Governors are likely to order just that.  Never fear.  Technology to the rescue.  You don’t need to keep a list.  Your cellphone will rat you out.  Cellphones have several means of logging our activity.  GPS tracks our location, and Bluetooth exchanges signals with nearby devices.  So, the helpful experts tell us, if someone tests positive for Wuhan, health officials could obtain a record of that person’s cellphone activity and compare it with the data emitted by other phone owners.  If all this sounds like an invasion of privacy, it’s only because it is.  “Tracing worked well in South Korea.”  That may be, but then again, there is no concept of personal privacy in Asia.  “They’re doing it in Germany.”  Seriously, you’re giving me Germany as example?  Here’s Ulf Buermeyer, of the Berlin Department of Justice, and president of Germany’s Society for Civil Rights. “I am a privacy advocate, but I don’t hold privacy as an absolute value.  Privacy has to be balanced in context with other human rights.  Life and health, I think, are important human rights.”  So much for German privacy.  Papers please!  The problem with such a system in America is that darned Constitution of ours.  As recently as 2 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that we have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of our physical movements.  That means, in order to gather the information from the phones, the government would need a court order.  This rule applies to investigations of murderers and terrorists.  I don’t think it would be waived because somebody sneezed.  Not surprisingly, the Left is prepared to cancel your constitutional rights, for your own good, of course.
Derek Thompson of Atlantic Magazine says, “tracing might seem like a violation of our dignity and privacy … but compared with our present nightmare, strategically sacrificing our privacy might be the best way to protect other freedoms.”  Once again, the Left assures us, the only way to protect our rights is to surrender them to the government.  Anyone who’s uncomfortable with the prospect of officials from the Ministry of Tracing examining your every move, raise your hand.  My hand’s up.  Google and Apple promise they won’t sell your movements to commercial interests.  I guess that means they’ll stop because they’re doing that now.  What if you have no smart phone?  Maybe the government will issue new Obamaphones, with the handy tracing app.  If you have a phone and don’t carry it, will that be a crime?  It will be in Michigan.  And when the Wuhan virus is gone for good, will the government stop snooping, and send the tracers back to work at the 7-11?  Don’t hold your breath.  Rights that are “sacrificed” never come back.

Whenever a politician tells you that you have to accept “the new normal,” hold on to your wallet and prepare for another assault on your constitutional rights.  It’s nothing new.  We’ve heard that crap before.  “The good old days are gone.  We’ll never be what we were before.”  Go back to 1979, and Jimmy Carter’s depressing “malaise” speech, “We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.  The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.”  Carter was talking about the energy crisis, but we’ve gotten the same sad message from others – “America’s best days are behind us.”  The Bushes and Il Duce Obama sang that song about globalization.  “America can’t lead the world, we’re just one part of it.”  We had to accept the “new normal.”  President Trump proved them wrong.  In so many ways, screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was a prophet on this subject.  In Network, Arthur Jensen lectures Howard Beale, “There are no nations; there are no peoples.  There is no America.  There is no democracy.  There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.  Those are the nations of the world today.  The world is a business, Mr. Beale.  Our children will live to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality – one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock – all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.”  In the 45 years since that was written, it’s only gotten worse.  The latest call for acceptance of a new normal springs from governments’ reaction to the Wuhan virus.  “You might have had a good time before, attending sporting events and plays, and going to restaurants, but it’s all over now.  Get ready for the new normal.”  Let me make this perfectly clear.  There is no such thing as a “new normal.”  There is only normal and abnormal.  Sadly, that’s a heretical view at present.  Drastic action is necessary.  Your rights will just have to suffer.  California’s Governor Newsome has said there will be no public sporting events until 2021.  According to a group of Harvard disease “experts,” social distancing restrictions may remain in place in the US until 2022 to prevent outbreaks of the virus.  The new normal, right?  Wrong!  Here in the People’s Republic of New Jersey, there’s no end in sight for our lock down, but don’t lose sight of the reason for the restrictions.  The point wasn’t to have everyone hide out till the virus went away, but to “flatten the curve.”  On March 11, Dr. Fauci told us, “If you look at the curves of outbreaks, they go big peaks, and then come down.  What we need to do is flatten that down.”  It was all about hospital capacity.  Dr. Michael Mina, “It’s really all borne out of the risk of our health care infrastructure pulling apart at the seams if the virus spreads too quickly and too many people start showing up at the emergency room at any given time.”  Well, if that was the reason for the restrictions, mission accomplished.  24% of the counties in America never had a virus problem.  More than half the deaths to date are in NY and NJ, and even there, the hospital crisis has subsided.  But “experts” want more restrictions, and ghoulish Democrats actually want more deaths and economic disruption for the sole purpose of ridding themselves of Donald Trump.  But put politics aside.  Why should we rely on medical experts who have been wrong every step of the way?  The death rate models were wrong.  The experts assured us extreme social distancing was required, and the same experts assure us we turned the corner on the virus only because of the lock downs.  Maybe they’re right.  And maybe not.  Sweden, that utopian society that socialists keep telling us to emulate, did not order extreme social distancing and did not close schools, bars and businesses.  The result?  The death rate in Sweden is lower than that in other countries that did lock down, such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, U.K, France, Spain and Italy.  Belgium closed everything, and its death rate is three times that in Sweden.  The same is true in Singapore and Taiwan, where there were no closures.  Why?  An Israeli mathematics professor, Isaac Ben-Israel, may have the answer.  His statistical analysis demonstrates that the spread of the virus peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it.  The professor believes that, while social distancing was beneficial, destroying the world’s economy was unnecessary.  Ben-Israel’s being bashed, of course.  “Why, he not a even a doctor!”  Of course, neither is the head of the WHO a doctor, and they still listen to that corrupt imbecile.  I have no idea whether the professor is right, but you can’t argue with his statistical findings.  His model of a 40 day spread, and then a decline mirrors the experience in every country.  The NY experience is no exception.  The first confirmed case of the Wuhan virus in NY was a woman returning from Iran on March 1.  The New Rochelle outbreak started two days later.  Roll ahead 40 days, and the peak for hospitalizations came on April 8.  The first confirmed case in the US was in Washington State on January 19.  Give it a week or so to spread, and 70 days later (April) Washington is far down the list of hot spots.  We can only hope that the professor is right, and let’s face it, he’s got as much a chance of being right as the medical experts.  At least his numbers add up.  We flattened the curve, and now it’s time to sharpen the truth.  Reject the calls for a new abnormal.  Insist on the old normal.  You’re entitled to nothing less.

It’s difficult to conceive of anything positive coming from the Wuhan virus, but it may serve to convince people that globalization is not the benign and beneficial process that Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Il Duce Obama tried to sell us.  There are lots of reasons why people hate Donald Trump.  They’ll say it’s his “tone,” or claim he’s a king or a dictator.  But what it really comes down to is that he’s a true outsider.  The establishment in both Parties thought they had the system rigged, but Trump showed up, cut the line, and beat them at their own game.  That would have been enough to turn them against Trump, but he made it worse.  Trump’s America First, and Make America Great Again slogans were a stake in the hearts of globalists.  What’s more, they weren’t just slogans that would fade after the election, Trump really believed this stuff.  That was the danger.  You see, globalists didn’t become globalists out of some altruistic desire to have the whole world join hands and sing, like in the Coca-Cola commercial.  They became globalists because there’s lots of money in it.  Companies move their operations offshore to exploit cheap labor and tax laws.  That’s why our shirts all come from Bangladesh and Vietnam, and striking closer to home, why the bulk of our medical protective gear and more than 90% of our antibiotics come from China.  The globalists assured us that while the Chinese communists were ruthless bastards who ignored human rights, if we promoted industry in China, their  government would move away from despotism.  How did that work out?  China now has an economy that rivals our own, they’re bigger ruthless bastards than before, and they’re trying to take over the world.  And one way they are doing that is by controlling international organizations like the U.N.  I may be a cynic, but I’ve always viewed the U.N. as nothing more than an employment agency for out of work totalitarian dictators.  One such agency is the World Health Organization (WHO).  The WHO was founded in 1948, to coordinate international health policy, particularly on infectious disease.  It has a laudable mission statement – “WHO staff are united in a shared commitment to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere.  Together we strive to combat communicable diseases.”  The WHO is dedicated to – Integrity; Accountability; Independence; and Impartiality.  By its own standards, the WHO is a failure.  The performance of the WHO and its Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the Wuhan virus pandemic lacks any semblance of integrity, accountability, or independence.  In a word, the WHO’s performance has been shameful.  The WHO should be the world’s sentinel, identifying threats to public health, warning the world about them, and leading world health agencies to combat them.  Instead, the WHO is nothing more than a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party.  The WHO can work only when its 194 member nations are honest and transparent.  Yet despite being dishonest and opaque, China aspires to be viewed as the world leader in public health.  How to accomplish this?  Co-opt the WHO.  The election of Tedros was no accident.  His predecessor was Chinese.  When her term ended, the Chinese needed a surrogate to do their bidding.  Tedros was tailor made.  He was the Minister of Health of Ethiopia.  China engineered his election.  He had impeccable credentials, having served the Marxist Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, which was responsible for gross human right abuses, torture, repression, and election fraud.  More importantly, as Health Minister, Tedros’ claim to fame was his cover up of three cholera outbreaks.  The day after his election, Tedros pledged support for the Chinese Communist’s claim to Taiwan.  Then, he appointed brutal dictator Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador.”  Mugabe’s “good will” consisted of having arrested, tortured and killed tens of thousands in Zimbabwe.  In return, China  funded a new $80 million WHO “Center for Disease Control” in Ethiopia.  Thus, WHO’s shameful response to the Wuhan virus should come as no surprise.  China lied, and the WHO swore to it.  In January, China said the virus was not transmissible from person to person.  WHO repeated the lie, without ever checking the facts, announcing, “China is setting a new standard for outbreak response.”  Although WHO spends $200 million a year on travel, it sent no one to China till February 10th, and then failed to declare a pandemic till March 11th.  WHO could have acted much sooner, but its master, China, wouldn’t permit it.  We now know that Taiwan identified the new virus in December, it notified WHO and begged for information.  No one called them back.  Taiwan, you see, is not a WHO member.  China won’t allow it.  WHO employees are terrorized by the very mention of Taiwan.  When an interviewer asked WHO senior advisor, Canadian Dr. Bruce Aylward, about Taiwan’s response to the virus, Aylward pretended not to hear the question, then refused to answer.  Integrity, accountability, and independence my ass.  The WHO budget is more than $2 billion, and guess who pays the bulk of the freight?  That’s right, the U.S.  Uncle Sucker pays some $450 million a year.  China pays about a tenth of that.  When you add in the private contributions from U.S. based charities and foundations, the U.S. accounts for nearly half the WHO budget.  The Wuhan virus fiasco led the President to suspend the funding of WHO.  Democrats howled.  N.J. Senator Crooked Menendez wants the U.S. to fund the additional $675 million WHO wants for its pandemic response.  You can’t make this shit up.  Hollywood is doing its part too.  On April 18th, Lady Gaga is hosting a celebrity telethon on CBS, NBC and ABC, in which she and other Hollywood imbeciles will beg for donations to be sent to the WHO.  Might as well cut out the middle-man and address checks to, Wuhan, China, c/0 the Chinese Communist Party.  Nancy Pelosi won’t bring Congress back to approve more money to support Americans working for small businesses, but she wants the WHO funding restored immediately.  Once again, faced with a choice of supporting Americans or the Communist Chinese, the Left chose the Communists.  China and its puppet, the WHO, are arsonists who have set the world ablaze.  The Democrats want to send them more gasoline.