GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, March 23, 2020

CORONAVIRUS: WHY NOT JUST MASK, INSTEAD OF THE SHELTER IN PLACE?

ICHEOKU says the government should have just issued a nationwide order to wear protective mask by everyone, especially those still in the workforce, instead of the shelter at home measure being implemented by various States. A policy, which is now crushing the American economy further, in addition to other aspects of American life which are already being asphyxiated by the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus. It is a war alright, but countries don't usually shut down because of war; not even Britain was shutdown during World War 11 when Germany was trying to bomb London out of existence. So, why the United States of America? 

The damage to America's economy will be more difficult to recover from than the direct deaths and sicknesses which the Coronavirus will cause; so the whirling economic engine should not have been allowed to sputter out due to the virus. Every effort and risk should have been made and taken to keep the wheels churning, but to allow America to grind to a halt just because a virus is spreading is not just acceptable nor is it the best option. A matter made even more tolerable because the recovery rate is very high and as with other viral diseases, not everyone will be infected nor equally impacted. It should have been treated like a war situation and various battle fields, people who cannot function should be replaced with healthier people to keep the engines of the economy roaring. 

Just like soldiers die in war fronts and are replaced with more soldiers, the economy should have continued to run in the same fashion; but to completely grind everything to a halt is not the American way or has America become so weak that a great generation cannot rise out of the situation. So what if some people succumb to the virus, people die daily anyway, regardless. A land of the brave should have been more courageous during this time of great peril but not to completely surrender to a virus. 

Doctors, nurses and other medical workers on the frontline in hospitals are still alive and thriving; so, if face masks could keep them protected from infection, why not apply the same measure to the rest of the country through a nationwide order to wear mask by everyone and keep the country open. Such a measure would have achieved the same purpose, to protect people from being infected, which the shelter in place order is purposed to achieve. But unlike the later, people would have still gone to their jobs, factories would have remained opened, as well as other businesses, small and large, which have been booming since the great economic miracle of this past three years plus. If masks could protect against community spread of the virus, why not adopt it instead of shutting every place down. 

Were ICHEOKU formulating the Coronavirus policy, would take the wear your mask route, which would have served America better, instead of the current shelter in place devastation being wrecked on America's economic and social wellbeing. People are ordered to stay at home to avoid community spread of the virus and medical workers wear protective masks to also avoid being infected by the already infected patients they are treating, a somewhat community (hospital) spread of the virus. Both ways, not spreading the virus is the main objective intended to be served; so, if protective masks can protect medical workers who are in constant contact with infected people, they can   also protect the general public who are not as in contact with infected people, as well. 

The only plausible argument in retort is that there are not enough masks to go around the entire population, but this is where the government would have scaled up the production of masks to meet the need. Asking people to stay at home is just an easy way out which on the long run will cause untoward damage to the economy. The cost to the economy of the shelter in place stay at home measure will surpass whatever amount which the providing of masks to the general public would have cost. 

Also, since the general public are not in confined space like hospital environment, their masks will last much longer, thus removing the need to replace their masks frequently, hence no run on masks. At worse too, only those who are still actively employed in jobs would be prioritized for masks distribution, so that they can wear their masks as they go to their workplaces to keep the engine of the economy humming. Anything to keep the economy going, should have been preferred to the total shut down being currently experienced. 

It is heart rending watching all the gains of the past three years flushed down the sewer just because of a virus, whose origin is known but how it originated is still a mystery; thus begging the question, did the Deep State strike so devastatingly to ensure that the president did not secure a second term berth in the White House. Something about the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus has been bothering ICHEOKU ever since it broke out. It smells of a purposeful outbreak, intended to achieve a certain end; which but for the president decisively leading the war against the virus, those agents of doom would have succeeded. 

But American people know that the president did not bring about the virus and they have also seen how decisively he is leading the effort against the virus. They have also come to the same conclusion that no other person would have been better in the White House at this time of great tribulation and leading the effort than President Donald John Trump. American people are fair and will not punish the president for something that is not his fault and will, on November 3, vote to reelect him and let the battle tested, steady hand of the president to remain on the tiller of State. 

ICHEOKU says has no scintilla of doubt that the president will be reelected for a second term on November 3, 2020. He has done enough to earn his reelection, the sudden Chinese Coronavirus triggered economic nose dive notwithstanding. The president did not cause the virus to break out, the Chinese people did; and the president is doing his possible best and as is humanly possible to arrest the pandemic. American people appreciates his glaring effort ; moreover, they do not change horses mid stream and for a president who is fighting as hard as President Donald John Trump is fighting for America, especially in this particular time of great affliction, they will renew his contract with America for four more years. 

ICHEOKU says wishes the president and his Taskforce on Coronavirus all the best as they strive to solve the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus problem. God's speed.

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