UPDATED: Come In Off The Ledge: The Panic Is Over
Don Surber--The corona virus panic is over . Read it all.
This morning, The Atlantic declared, "The Trump Presidency Is Over." Never Trumper Peter Wehner wrote, "Donald Trump is shrinking before our eyes.
"The corona virus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation.
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5 hours later, the only thing dead was the premise of the article.
President Donald John Trump this afternoon took ownership of corona virus at a press conference. In so doing, he restored America's faith in itself and its ability to conquer an illness.

The stock market, which had been upbeat all day ahead of his announcement of a payroll tax holiday, shot up.
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States and hospitals will prepare for the worst. The federal government will give them information and money.
UPI also reported, "He also announced broad new authority for Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, allowing him to waive certain regulations and requirements to allow 'all hospitals maximum flexibility to respond to the virus and care for patients.'
"Under this new authority, Azar will be able to waive requirements and allow doctors to practice at out-of-state hospitals, and allow hospitals to increase bed capacity and length of stay for patients.
"Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said the declaration will allow healthcare facilities to do everything they possibly can to contain and mitigate the virus."
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The press conference worked because it showed President Donald John Trump as large and in charge. He was ordering people around, and shoving back at the press. While salesmanship is important, a president must be a leader in times of crisis. President Trump led.
The reviews were positive. Mayor Bill de Blasio said, "Directionally, certainly a lot of good new initiatives in the president’s state of emergency."
David Axelrod tweeted, "But at least it can be said that the president, who as late as yesterday was minimizing the impact or the virus, reacted with appropriate seriousness today and laid out some meaningful steps."
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But the fever has broken on the panic, which was the worse of the two evils.
The Atlantic was wrong. The Trump presidency isn't over. The panic is.
UPDATE 1: For a slightly, but not too much, different perspective here are 8 points that John Hinderaker makes. Follow the link for his full explanation of each point. I certainly don't agree with everything he says, but I do find his argument regarding The Politics of Coronavirus persuasive--as also Surber's.
1) The Democrats’ effort to blame coronavirus on Trump is doomed to fail. ...
2) On the contrary, the pandemic shows that Trump was right all along about China. ...
3) So far, voters are entirely indifferent to the Democrats’ attempts to gain political advantage from coronavirus. ...
4) One of the Democrats’ problems with coronavirus is that it isn’t a very threatening disease. ...
5) The stock market has taken a hit, but it is certain to rebound, and soon. ...
6) Early on, President Trump did the right thing: he tried to damp down the panic, while at the same time taking the measures that would have practical effect, in particular, banning China travel. As press hysteria mounted, he shifted toward visible activism. Today, he declared a national emergency ...
7) Long before November, it will be obvious to everyone that fear of coronavirus was vastly overblown. ...
8) Then again, maybe I am wrong. Maybe by November coronavirus hasn’t dissipated and people are worried about it. What then? In a crisis of any kind–war, depression, epidemic–most people want a strong executive. ...
Biden's dementia will only become more apparent.
UPDATE 2: NY Governor Cuomo on Mobile Coronavirus Testing: “I Want to Thank the Vice President and Especially the President who Facilitated This and Moved Quickly”.