Ken's Comments

 Start off positive.  Two things President Biden has done right with Executive orders.  First, the Buy American order.  He promises to use federal dollars to buy from American manufacturers and companies.   Second, he promises to replace the current fleet of US Government vehicles with electric cars.  About time someone did that.  In the long past, I wrote a blog challenging government officials who were truly concerned about climate change to stop yapping and do something about it and one of the things they could do is create a bigger market for electric cars by insisting their government agencies buy them rather than gas powered cars. Two attaboys for President Biden for those.  Because I wanted to start positive, I won't address the other Executive Orders, many of which aren't worth crap.  But I will get snarky now. Now he says it Department - Anthony Fauci goes on Fox News and says "...after that [NY Times] interview I said to ...

 Prediction: In 2021, I predict President-Elect Biden is going to take steps that will make things worse, implementing his "national strategy," mandating masks across the country, and generally issuing edicts that negatively impacting the economy and make things worse.  All the while Biden will be saying, and the media will be agreeing, that the suffering is President Trump's fault.   After a few months, about May when experts are even now predicting vaccines will be distributed widely enough to create significant immunity, Biden will take credit for the vaccines being distributed and declare victory.  At that point, the media will be praising President Biden for saving us.   Before that happens, let's look back on 2020 at what really did happen, both bad and good. Bad - The Obama Administration depleted the US Govt. supplies needed in the event of a pandemic and the Trump Administration did not replace these in their first three years. Good - Presiden...

Classic example of the Democrate partisan media at work.  The Trump Administration publishes good news that a drug called remdesivir shows promise in treating the Coronavirsu.  To pour cold water on this, the Washington Post published an article titled "Researchers changed metric to measure remdesivir during clinical trial."*1 I have to give the authors of the article a bit of credit for intellectual honesty and integrity.  The headline suggests something really bad happened.  The article tries to support the headline but the writers, and this is the credit I give them, posted views on both sides of the issue.  Unfortunately for them, any reasonable reader would conclude the Trump Administration was right to do what it did. The original goal of the trial was to see if remdesivir could reduce the rate of deaths.  The new goal was to measure whether remdesivir helps people recover faster.  Under the new criteria, it was shown that remdesivir reduces ...

Second guessing is the order of the day and it's time for me to join in.  This is a look back to what happened wrong and right, and what could have been done better.  To do this, let's use the standards set forth by NY Governor Mario Cuomo during some of his press conferences.  When asked why he was looking for 40,000 ventilators earlier this year when NY needed less than 10,000, Gov. Cuomo said, and I paraphrase you act based on what you know at the time, and a related point would be did you act based on what you knew at the time.  In another press conference Gov. Cuomo speculated on what he might have done differently if he knew then what he knew now.  A fair analysis of the actions of the Trump Administration can be made using those standards. 1. Acting based on what you know. The Administration has a standard cast of characters who are called on when there are epidemics.  This includes the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Contr...