Simply Observations

1.  Did Bernie Sanders really say:  "In a truly free society, economic rights must be considered human rights."

Yep, he said it.  So you sit there and think about it for three minutes.  What exactly do economic rights mean?  I know.....it just wasn't plain enough for me to figure the implications here.

Maybe he does mean I should be able to buy four burgers at McDonalds for $1.99, or that a bottle of Jack Daniels should be no more than $12.  Maybe he means that everyone should be able to have a double-wide trailer for less than $300 a month.

It's just another reason why I can't see Bernie in the White House.

2.  Are there really 7,383 total legislators in America today?

Yes, but don't get worried.....they are deemed 'essential' and still collect a check each month.

3.  Did Bloomberg actually spend out over one-billion dollars.....on a one-star campaign?

Listen, some people felt that he was dressed up and gave the radiant appearance of a soon-to-be-President.  The problem was....he gave a 'wooden' performance.  He was like a three-quarter-speed Obama, or a slow-motion George Bush.

I seriously believe that the DNC players figured he'd rush in....take the load off Joe Biden, and quickly protect the whole election game (keeping Bernie Sanders out of the convention system).  They guessed seriously wrong.

The billion lost?  People will talk about this for the next decade, and suggest that the billion....in the hands of Beto or Mayor Pete.....would have turned the whole election around.

4.  Is Wuhan fully open?

If you follow the real news and the fake news, there's a difference.  The Chinese authorities say it's fully open.  If you talk to Americans who returned to the city in the past week.....they generally say the city is about one-third open.  What they are basing this upon?  Mostly driving around and hitting places that they typically would have shopped or gotten service.

So the real question should be.....is Wuhan version 2.0 going to recover?  I would make a guess here that a fair number of people didn't see a reason to stay there, and have moved on.  I also suspect that if you actually bean-counted people over the age of sixty......probably half of that population aren't living anymore.

Does it matter?  No.  Go look at the Incas and the Aztecs....their civilizations hit some blunt situation, and folks packed up to leave.  History repeats itself.

5.  Did Joe Biden actually say that he'd pick a VP by the 1st of May?

Yes.

But the convention is still like 15 weeks away?  Yes. 

At the pace of declining health, I don't think Joe can last till mid-August. 

6.  Three million Americans NOT pay on their mortgage presently.....isn't that going to be a problem?

Because of the crisis, you could play this game out for 90 days, but after that point, the banks would require the federal government to 'help' or you'd have a 2008 crisis all over again.  Let's be honest here.....a lot of people were surviving with a paycheck-to-paycheck situation, and there is no six-month stock of financial reserves.

If this were to be dragged out until August, I'd suggest we enter another crisis period....just on bank problems alone.

7.  Did the governor of Virginia pack up some bags and go off to his vacation home on the Outer Banks (North Carolina)?

No.  Well....he says the social media chatter is incorrect and that he didn't leave his state of Virginia.  The suggestion that people have 'seen' him at the home?  I might suspect it's one of his friends using the home.  At this point, having issued executive orders for Virginians to remain at home.....if he'd done something this stupid, he'd be out of a job.

8.  Is there factual data to suggest sunshine matters with the virus?

Well....some scientists have done the numbers.  Sunshine states/countries (I'm assuming they mean like New Mexico/Arizona/Jordan/Egypt) have a lesser virus situation.  Course, that would mean places like the UK and Italy would be at the opposite end of this, and bound to suffer more.

9.  Did 'thugs' try to burn down a police station in Strausbourg, France?

Pretty unique situation.  So what the national French news says is that a Molovtov cocktail or two was thrown at the front of the building, and some minor flame did occur.  Damage?  Virtually nothing much except some broken glass and burn 'marks' on the structure. 

Local chatter on it?  This area of town, Meinau, is the location of a number of high-rise cheapo apartments.  Wild behavior isn't something that is unusual in this neighborhood.  With warm weather and tensions on the rise because of the ban rules....chaos is on the rise, and the cops are in the middle of this.

10.  This $1-billion deal between California and China for masks.....is there a problem over this deal?

Well, you don't know.  It probably should have been a open-competition situation, but the governor won't release the contract and details.....so immediately, you are drawn to wonder about the insider information.  Just on transparency.....you'd give the guy a 'F'.