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Outside of impeachment, of which I think the inhabitants of entire planet is growing tired, not to mention the inhabitants of all other planets in the known universe, there have been two other stories in the news that have captivated the headlines.

Now before I get into those other stories, allow me to quickly clear something up for skeptics, there are inhabitants on other planets scattered about the known universe, there must be or otherwise, why would there be a Miss Universe pageant every year?

Sure, Earth wins it every year, but that’s not really our fault. For those who insist that we are alone in the universe, I would challenge you to start your own, Miss Holier-Than-Thou pageant where the entries are as limited as your minds.

Okay, that said, allow me to get into the nuts and bolts of the only stories outside of impeachment that everyone seems to care about, and frankly, few should.

BREAKING NEWS…

Kobe Bryant is still dead.

Just a couple of weeks ago, news broke on a Sunday, that retired NBA star Kobe Bryant had died in the crash of a helicopter near Calabasas, California. The news came in dribs, and drabs, as at first it was Bryant, and 4 other people, then it was Bryant and one of his daughters, before it finally became Bryant, one of his daughters, and 7 other people.

A tragedy? Indeed. It always is when something like that happens, regardless of who was involved. People lose their lives, families are devastated, and friends are in shock. Helicopter crashes, plane crashes, car crashes, medical issues, being bored to death by endless democrat whining in an impeachment trial, sudden and unexpected deaths always come as a shock.

But holy crap, the collective anguish over the death of Kobe Bryant seems a bit much. Okay, it seems a lot much.

The overtly overly dramatic gnashing of teeth and sobbing of crocodile tears by celebrities, some of who knew Bryant, some of whom were only acquainted with the guy, and some who only watched the guy play basketball seems to be way out of proportion. Then there are the myriad of basketball fans, those who never met the guy, who have taken to social media to express their painful loss. Seriously?

How shallow must your life be that the most devastating thing you have ever experienced is the loss of someone you never even met, and whose entire impact on your life was wanting to make you shoot a ball through a hoop? Kobe Bryant, I hate to break it to you, was not the second coming of Jesus. He wasn’t even the second coming of Jordan.  Is it a shame that he died so young? Yes. Is it a shame that his daughters won’t have their dad and their sister around, or that his wife is now without her husband, and a daughter? Of course, but they weren’t on that helicopter alone.

Christina Mauser, Sarah Chester, Payton Chester, Ara Zobayan, John Altobelli, along with his wife Keri and daughter Alyssa died in the same helicopter crash, and they have families left behind too…but how do their deaths stack up compared to that of Kobe Bryant and his 13 year old daughter, Gigi? Well, in one article, in a list of bullet points, the “other people” who died in that crash were in 7^th place, including the make and model of the helicopter.

Seriously, the make and model of the helicopter was more important than the names of those who lost their lives? Collateral damage I suppose, but at least the “other people” were listed ahead of the bullet point stating that the helicopter circled Glendale for 14 minutes after takeoff.

So that’s something.

So many people, celebrities or garden variety have posted about how Kobe Bryant was their hero. Oh, come on. Hero? He was a basketball player. He wasn’t Gandhi, or Schindler, or anyone else who made great contributions to humanity. He was a highly paid athlete, good at his job, who had feet of clay, and his own sordid past just like any run of the mill person does. Hero? Hardly. Let me ask this rather rhetorical question of those who regarded Kobe Bryant as a hero. Did he lose his life in the commission of some deed that would make his corner of the world better, make his country safer, or save someone else’s life?

No, in fact, Kobe Bryant lost his life trying to avoid traffic.

Heroes. You want heroes? How about our men and women in uniform, who serve this country, and defend our freedoms? How about those who came home from doing that missing arms, legs and minds? While we’re at it, how about those heroes who wore our nation’s uniforms in past wars, and especially those who came home in a box?

Heroes? How about those who go about keeping our streets, our rural communities, our towns and our cities safe while having to wear bullet-proof vests in the hope that they’ll get home to their families at the end of a shift? How about those who run toward the burning building rather than running away? Those who take a chance every time they roll up to the scene of a tragedy not really knowing what might happen while they try to save lives?

There are all sorts of real heroes, but a guy who makes more money playing a game than most people will see in 10 lifetimes isn’t a hero, he’s a talented lucky bastard, and the two should never be confused.

Alright. The other story outside of impeachment to get all the press lately has been the coronavirus, and it’s time to weigh in on that.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

The coronavirus is being called a “pandemic” by the world media, and they’re being spurred on by bureaucrats in white lab coats who are more bored than SETI nerds trying to process Miss Universe entries from other planets in the known universe.

Remember, a few years ago, when the rampaging wild Ebola’s were going to get us all, and then nothing happened? It was the biggest pre-announced doomsday prediction since the Y2K bug, and the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.

The corona virus is, after all, a rather simple virus that affects the respiratory system, and can be more pronounced in the very young, the old, or those with some sort of pre-existing such medical condition. In fact, most of those who have died from the coronavirus “pandemic” have been people already suffering from some form of immune dysfunction.

Now to put this in proper perspective, how many cases of the dreaded coronavirus have there been? As of Tuesday February 5th, 2020…24,000 confirmed cases and about 500 deaths…WORLDWIDE. For the sake of balance, there are about 7.7 billion people on Earth.

Have people been catching this virus on different continents, which is the definition of a pandemic? Yes, but people catch the common cold and various variety of flues every year all over the world as well and nobody breaks out the hazmat suits for those.

“Pandemic” in the loosest sense of the term, but is it a reason to panic?

By contrast to the 500 deaths by the dreaded coronavirus so far this year, 13 people die every year in the U.S. when vending machines tip over on them. Roughly 30 people per year are killed in their sleep by fire ants. In Russia, on average, 100 people are killed every year by falling icicles. In the U.S. nearly 450 people die every year from falling out of bed, and over in Africa, the human population drops by a staggering 2,900 every year as people are killed by hippos.

In the grand scheme of things, the coronavirus amounts to a cold, maybe a bad cold, but a cold, and like most viruses, is treatable with simple medication, and a box of Kleenex. Certain precautions are being taken, like screening people at airports coming into the U.S. from China. Now exactly how one screens for coronavirus at the airport is a bit unclear, but I suppose it has something to do with TSA asking you to turn your head, and cough as you get off a plane which is pretty much the same thing they do when you want to get on a plane these days.

So, from where does the coronavirus come? As near as anyone can tell, it came from Wuhan China, but there has been a good deal of misinformation connected to that. For instance, early in the anything but a “pandemic,” some yahoo with a social media account by the name of Wang Mengyun, the host of an online travel show, posted a video of herself eating bat soup, and suddenly, bat soup in Wuhan, China was ground, or soup bowl zero. Here is the problem with that… Wang Mengyun, wasn’t in Wuhan, in fact, she wasn’t even in China. She was in Palau, a Pacific island nation.

Now to be clear, what people in Palau like to eat is their business, and what Wang Mengyun posts regarding her quest for celebrity status on the internet is her business, but when it comes to soups, if I don’t see it in the Campbell’s soup section at the supermarket…I’m not interested.

A big part of the problem concerning the spread of this version of a cold in China is due to the fact that Chinese healthcare is substandard, and they simply can’t contend with the numbers. By the way, the Chinese have a government run healthcare system, and their best advice was to ban the sale of live wild animals in food markets.

Outside of the occasional crustacean in a tank at some of our better markets in this country, live wild animals haven’t been sold in the snack aisle in the U.S. probably since the early 1800’s, and the other half of the Chinese medical advice equation is Obamacare, so…

And finally, a bunch of liberal globalists are now trying to blame the coronavirus on climate change. These are the ilk of people who believe that adding cream of bat soup to the green bean casserole next Thanksgiving would be intellectually stimulating for their dinner guests. What they are suggesting is that such viruses that originate in animals, and then jump to humans, is being accelerated by man-made global warming.

In other words, these are people that believe we can stop the uncommon cold by raising people’s taxes so as to control the amount of energy released by the sun which, let’s face it, is bat-crap crazy, but then these are also the same people who would try to impeach Trump if he came up with a cure for coronavirus tomorrow.

So there you go…two classic examples of overhyping the underwhelming…people are still catching colds, and Kobe Bryant is still dead.

I checked, and that’s the news.

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