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Coronavirus Makes Borders Popular — Even in Mexico!

The coronavirus event that the media has made its top story certainly has people wound up. Example numero uno from down south: Mexicans are demanding more border controls to keep out possibly infectious Americans — who could have imagined such a thing?

It’s certainly true that the Mexican Presidente Lopez Obrador has maintained a strangely […]

Mexico Is Not Ready for Any Public Health Crisis

There is one good aspect to the coronavirus event, and that is the rediscovery of borders: they are so handy in keeping out people who might cause the preventable deaths of Americans from disease.

Unfortunately we face the Third World to our south and the border there is inadequate.

Perhaps worse is the cavalier attitude […]

Rasmussen Poll Reports Republican Suspicion about Whether Coronavirus Is a Media Concoction

A March 5 posting on the Rasmussen Reports website headlined 60% of Republicans See Coronavirus Scare As Tool to Get Trump.

It seems there is a belief on the right that “the media and some politicians are playing up the threat of coronavirus to hurt President Trump.”

Wherever would these citizens get such an idea?

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Tucker Carlson: America’s Medical Dependence on China Is Dangerous

On Friday, Tucker Carlson examined the threat of Red China to the United States as shown by the coronavirus outbreak. The globalist economy, so profitable to big business, has put too much power in the hands of hostile communist China which manufactures a large proportion of the pharmaceuticals upon which we Americans depend.

Regarding the […]

Coronavirus Reminds the Planet that Borders Are a Great Idea

As the coronavirus spreads around the world, we should notice how the openness of travel has been facilitated the spread of the illness. Borders are our friends when contagion is on the loose — even though the current panic is largely an overblown media concoction, according to Dr. Drew Pinsky.

But the next communicable disease […]

Sick Migrant Kids Get Lots of Attention; US Public Health, Not So Much

Public health is a topic that gets little attention these days except for warnings about self-inflicted problems like obesity and alcoholism. The danger from infectious disease may seem like a distant memory or a Third World trouble. But now, open borders threaten all Americans with communicable illnesses once thought defeated by modern medical science.

The […]