CORONAVIRUS: QUEEN ELIZABETH REASSURES HER SUBJECTS.

"I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all. 

I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all. I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times. 

I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it. 

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterize this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future. 

The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children. 

Across the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help the relief effort. 

And though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation. 

It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister. We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety. Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do. 

While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us. 

We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again. 

But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all." 

CORONAVIRUS AMERICA: JOE BIDEN NOT THE MAN OF THE HOUR.

ICHEOKU says thankfully he is not in charge at present and American people will not put him in charge any time soon either. The problems facing the country are simply far too weighty for his frail, mumbling self to muster. So, nobody will over task him by asking him to do more than his weak feeble body can do. His near senility, evidenced by the incoherency of words laboriously coming out of his mouth does not help matters either. These are true but hard difficult facts of his present debilitated state of affairs and such a person is not a material for the presidency of the United States of America, especially not with the current challenges facing the nation. 

Joe Biden is struggling through words and sentences; he often times appears lost and confused, unaware of self and presence; and he can hardly support himself on the strength of his own sinew for a long period of time. How such a heavily depreciated man, both mentally and physically, can pilot the affairs of the State, especially at this time of great tribulation which has also destroyed the economy is beyond comprehension. Further, there will be a rebuilding of the economy which will follow soon after the pandemic is put under control, which will require so much energy and vibrancy which Joe Biden no longer possesses. 

Joe Biden can hardly save himself from the contagion, talk-less of saving America. Instead of being up in the front leading the charge, he is hunkered down inside a sterilized, pseudo-bunker basement in his home in Wilmington issuing those sorry snippets of possible solutions. He has no capacity whatsoever to lead the fight against the Coronavirus nor the subsequent economic rebuilding of a nation that is in near economic paralysis. Thankfully, he is not in the White House now, otherwise, the helluva crisis would have been too much for him to handle and completely overwhelmed him by now. His days are over, long gone with age, frailty and early signs of dementia. 

Anyone denying the obvious is either living in fool's paradise or is unable to save him or herself from the catastrophic fate facing the Democratic Party and their putative presidential candidate nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. The sorry sight which he has become, holed in inside his basement, where he struggles through his brief television and social media appearances, in fact make him look like a hostage needing a rescue, rather than a presidential candidate coming to the rescue of American people. Those images made a bad situation even worse, as it boosted a grim reality of a mission impossible of Joe Biden ever becoming president. Not in this life, especially not with the double whammy of a problem, the Coronavirus pandemic and crashed economic, facing America. 

America is facing the greatest challenge of its life and only a true leader with presence of mind, grit and guts can help America overcome. Such a leader will be needed post Coronavirus to help motivate Americans back to doing what they do best, rebuilding a nation and an economy on bended knees. Joe Biden is not that leader as he neither motivates nor exudes confidence in anyone. He is also not in charge of his affairs or in full capacity of his mind to command the presence and authority that will be needed going forward. The image of him in that his basement enclave is so touching that even one writer dubbed him the invisible man; wondering how a General leading a war against an enemy could lead his army into battle from a hidden bunker so far away from the theatre of war. 

A reassuring Joe Biden would have established an office in Washington DC, furnished with all the paraphernalia of a president including majestic American flags, and from there contemporaneously marshal his own talking points and daily briefings on the Coronavirus as the president does his own from the White House. But inside a basement does not do it for anybody; it does not give anybody hope nor confidence that help could come from such a place. The image gives the impression that it is Joe Biden who actually needs being rescued from the Coronavirus pandemic than the one offering to rescue American people from it. Image is everything and in this case, Joe Biden and his team bungled it big time. 

Even the quality of the video production is mediocre, both audio and visual; and you ask yourself why don't they have it on a few seconds delay, instead of always going live. Better still, they can create edited feeds of it to show or hire a voice over artist to deliver the statements while Joe Biden mimes it. A good artistic director can be hired to produce it. Joe Biden seems to be in an entirely different world than the rest of American people, as he continuously suggests as solutions to the pandemic, doing things which the president has already done. 

As one writer put it, "someone really needs to let Joe Biden give the whole thing up already", and ICHEOKU says agrees completely with the astute writer. Simply put, Joe Biden is not rightly suited for the job, not any more; not when he cannot even read a prepared written text in bold letters right in front of him. Please let Joe Biden's family intervene to spare him the odium of his present self. He needs to be sequestrated from the public and let him go take a well deserved and rightly earned rest from his over fifty years of meritorious service to the nation. Enough of the sorry, pitiful sights of a Joe Biden that is practically a ghostly apparition of his once ebullient self.

MICHAEL ATKISON FIRED!

ICHEOKU says way to go Mr President as the continuing house cleaning goes on despite the fight against Coronavirus. This is exactly what walking and chewing gum is all about; such that the government is continuously running despite the amount of time being spent on the fight to save American people from the scourge of the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus. 

The now former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson, was an insider, a member of the Washington DC Deep State anti Trump establishment. The manner in which he handled the Ukrainian whistle blower that led to the hoax impeachment of the president was definitely below par. So, it was not surprised that his job went with it.

Anyway, he is now gone and hopefully the country can continue healing from the scavengers that nearly ruined it for everyone, a group of who tried to undo an election by removing a duly elected president of the United States of America. The purification and cleansing of the government continues as another one bites the dust. Good riddance. So long Mike.

CORONAVIRUS: GET THE HELL OUT OF MY COUNTRY.

ICHEOKU says behold the hardest working president America have seen within the recent many years. There is no other president America would rather wish is in the White House at this perilous time of onerous challenge, leading the battle against the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus. Who else is best suited to lead the war on Coronavirus than a fighter president, who is not afraid of pugiling and so far, is throwing counter punches at the Coronavirus. ICHEOKU says thank you President Donald John Trump for manning up against the Coronavirus and God willing, victory shall be his in no distant time. God's speed Mr President.

CORONAVIRUS: POSTPONE THE NOVEMBER 3RD ELECTION 2020.

ICHEOKU says a lot of campaigning time has been lost to the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus by the presidential candidates. They should therefore be compensated for the loss of such valuable time, which was not a fault of theirs. The Coronavirus should be treated as a force majeure, entitling the candidates to an extension of campaign time. 

American people have not heard sufficient information on the candidates' policy positions, on things dear to them, as a result of the sudden cessation of campaigning by the candidates. Information which would have enabled them to properly assess the candidates and determine who is better suited for the office and which one of them would represent their interests best, as president. 

This is the reason America's presidential election campaign season lasts for a long period of time; to enable the candidates have reasonable amount of time to take their messages across to the American people, in various constituencies and so many corners of a very vast country. It is during this period that American voters interact with the candidates, through various forums such as town halls, campaign stops, campaign events and also watch them on television as they continuously interview for the job in question and answer sessions with reporters, debates and other media pressers. 

As American people watch and listen to the candidates, they make informed assessments on their suitability for the office, who represents their values most and who will protect their values best. Without the presidential campaign running its full course, American people will not have a fair assessment of the candidates to enable them make a well considered choice as to who to elect president. Instead, they will be hoodwinked into voting for a candidate who they would otherwise not have voted for were the candidates to be fully assessed. The shortened campaign period caused by the Coronavirus, has made it impossible for the American people to fully assess the candidates, as it has deprived them the much needed time to do so. 

The presidential candidates on the other hand, have not had enough time to market themselves to the American people as being the best qualified and most suitable for the office, because they were forced to suspend their campaigns because of the Coronavirus. Therefore great injustice will be done to them, especially to the candidate who could have ordinarily marketed himself better to the American people, but was shortchanged and denied the opportunity to do so by the intervention of the Coronavirus pandemic. 

Electing a candidate by default of what was known about him before the Coronavirus outbreak, without giving the other candidate a full opportunity to make his case to the American people, will be a great disservice to American democracy, especially the electoral system which usually elects the better of the two candidates as president. The opportunity to do an extensive campaign, which allows candidates to penetrate into the hearts and minds of American people, must not be denied the candidates, especially an otherwise would have been preferred candidate but for the short campaign period. What happened was not their fault; they did not cause the Coronavirus and should therefore their campaigns should not be shortchanged as a result. They should be accorded the full opportunity to make their case to the American people by giving them extra months to campaign to make up for the lost time. 

The Coronavirus disease should be treated as an act of God which intervened to distort both the campaign and the election. Nobody anticipated nor foresaw it coming, but now that it has struck, we must adjust things to meet the cruel hand dealt by it, including the November 3rd 2020 presidential election. Elections do not have to be on the first Tuesday in November of an election year certain; although the practice, but it is not inviolably set in stone. It can and should, under the circumstances we are faced with, be adjusted as would in any other onerous intervening event. The killer-virus now ravaging the country should be treated as such impossible to perform circumstance and necessary accommodations made alongside to postpone the coming presidential election. 

If the 2020 summer Olympics in Japan could be postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic; ditto elections in North Macedonia, Serbia, Poland, London's mayoral and other local elections, Spain's Basque Country and Galicia, Bolivia's presidential election, many States primaries, ICHEOKU says does not see why the November 3rd 2020 America's presidential election cannot and should not be similarly postponed as well. 

The president for example, instead of going to his regularly scheduled sold out campaign events to remind voters why he should be reelected for a second term on November 3rd  2020, has been holed up in the White House tackling the Coronavirus problem. Although he is doing a good job with the task, but the President Donald John Trump we know, would rather be mesmerizing crowds of Trump faithfuls in his usually sold out campaign arenas, rehashing his accomplishments during the last three years plus of his presidency. 

But instead of doing what he likes best, going to these celebratory campaign events to savor the applause and adulation of his supporters, the president is now bogged down in the White House, working tirelessly to protect and defend American people from the onslaught of the Coronavirus. A virus which sucker punched his strongest campaign talking point, the then flourishing but now vanquished economy in comatose. Nobody in his shoes would like the cruel fate which the Coronavirus dealt him, admitted he is powering through it and doing the best anybody could wish for under such a dire unforeseen circumstance. The president's chances at reelection is still strong because the circumstances was not caused by him and American people have seen him working harder than the once hardest working man in America, the late James Brown. 

On the other side is Joe Biden, the putative presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, admitted Bernie Sanders is still hanging in there but the end game is as good as determined, whose campaign has become hamstrung by the Coronavirus as well. Former Vice President Joe Biden cannot go on his usual campaign tours on 'No Malarky Express' bus any more because of the Coronavirus. At his very advanced and frail old age, his susceptibility to the Coronavirus disease is much heightened and he needs to protect himself more carefully. Also, the image of his campaigning for election amidst such a national disaster will cut a picture of an uncaring soul and American people do not like heartless people to be in their White House. A caring Joe from Scranton who rode the Amtrak from Delaware to Washington DC regularly happens to be his strongest suit and he wouldn't want to soil it now. 

ICHEOKU says Joe Biden deserves his full press court on the campaign trail to market himself to the corners of America where he is not necessarily a household name. He should therefore, like the incumbent President Donald John Trump who is seeking a reelection, be compensated for the loss of campaign time. Like the president, Joe Biden also needs his full campaign time but for a different reason, to try and convince American people on why they should replace the incumbent president with him. A tough task to accomplish under normal circumstances as incumbent presidents most times get reelected, but which is now made even tougher by the Coronavirus. American people have seen the president working so hard fighting the Coronavirus and the image of a frail Joe Biden does not augur well in the middle of the fight. Joe Biden, instead of leading the fight, needs to have himself protected from the virus. 

ICHEOKU says this extension of time being canvassed for does not have to be a full calendar year, such as moving the election to next November 9th 2021. No, it could be for few months depending on the agreement of both parties and as would compensate for the lost time. In fact, short of a pattern which was established over the many years since America started conducting presidential elections, there is nothing sacrosanct about the second Tuesday in November of an election year. The two major political parties can agree to defer the election to a later day and Congress can also decide today on when to hold the election, irrespective of the time honored tradition of holding it on the second Tuesday in November of an election year. In essence, any year can become an election year, ditto the month and the day. 

Each time President Donald John Trump is on television talking about the effort his administration is making to find a panacea to the Coronavirus affliction, he is technically campaigning for his reelection. American people are watching and judging his leadership ability and seeing the effort he is making to solve the pandemic and many are satisfied with what he is doing, especially his messaging. This is a huge disadvantage to Joe Biden, who has no such platform nor commands any other huge presence nationwide during this Coronavirus crisis to showcase his managerial skills for assessment. This deficit needs to be addressed and the only workable way to do it is by deferring the election to a much later date and long after a handle has been placed on the Coronavirus. That way, Joe Biden can have the time to play some catch up and of course both candidates will have their full time on the campaign trails. 

The presidential election of November 3rd 2020 should be postponed to such a future date as would be agreeable to the candidates and their political parties and if need be, ratified by the Congress. This will be for just this election and any other future times as an extraordinarily intervening circumstances might force a disruption of an election, thus making it impossible for the candidates to campaign in full. It is not too much to ask for and it is a better alternative to electing a president by default of lack of enough campaign period to fully assess the other candidate for the office. In fairness to both candidates President Donald John Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, this is the right thing to do. America needs to give them the additional campaign time to make up for the lost time due to the Coronavirus. If other countries could do it, why not the United States of America. #DeferTheNovember3rd202Election.

CORONAVIRUS: 200,000 DEATHS?

ICHEOKU says admitted there is something reassuring, watching and listening to Dr Anthony Fauci go about his now almost daily analysis of the rampaging Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus, which has turned him into a rockstar contagion specialist. But ICHEOKU was taken aback when he came up with the 200,000 likely deaths of Americans during the course of this pandemic. Although it is an estimate, but it seems to be needlessly on the high side, too far fetched, an overkill of some sort; possibly meant to put the fear of God into Americans, especially those who are not taking the Presidential Coronavirus Taskforce guidelines seriously. 

Based on what if ICHEOKU may ask, the death rate in other afflicted countries considered, including China, the origination point of the virus. As with Italy, ICHEOKU can understand why America's projected death rate could be higher than theirs. America's population is nearly six times that of Italy and ordinary statistical ratio could easily collaborate such disparity. But how about China with a population nearly five times America, why is their death rate far much lower than America's; unless the communist Chinese authority purposely played down their own figures. Why is Russia not suffering the same amount of affliction from the Coronavirus as America is currently suffering or is their own turn yet to come? Why is America with such a shockingly high number of possible deaths from a virus which did not start in America and which gave America some heads up before arriving on its shores? Was anything missed and if, what was it? 

A matter made worse because America is somewhat the big brother of the world and if America catches cold, the rest of the world panics because there will be no one to come to their rescue should they get into trouble. Now, who will rescue the rescuer or is it a case of healer, heal thyself? The times are scary, especially the near hopelessness of the situation, with no feasible sense on when it can begin to ease off. The panic in the land is such that it is getting to a point where if the virus does not kill you, depression forced on people from isolation, joblessness and frustration will. A case of running from the devil and a deep blue sea is blocking your escape path. A Catch-22 of some sort, either way people will die, thus begging the question why suffer all these quarantines, isolation and loss of jobs if it will not make a weighted difference. Why die sad on empty stomach when one can die happy on a full stomach. Americans are not used to living this way and it might lead to increased suicide rate in addition.

Hopefully, it will not be a situation like the president said, where the cure for the disease becomes more devastating than the disease itself. Things are getting ugly. Why the world is facing this plague is beyond comprehension. The nation and the world in general should humble themselves, understanding that there is a higher power above all powers and sincerely seek for a divine help, in addition to all other medical sciences effort being directed at the problem. Anybody who says he or she is not scared about the coronavirus must be living in fool's paradise or oblivious of themselves. It is not a joke. It is a killing machine and very fast at what it does; and it has no respect for anybody. Like with Houston's we have a problem, it is now the entire mankind that is facing the real existential problem. May God help us all, his children, IJN.

CORONAVIRUS: NO PARTIAL OPENING OF THE COUNTRY.

ICHEOKU says any opening of the United States of America that does not include New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California of which Silicon Valley is part of, makes no sense at all. It is either the entire country is opened for business or none of it is opened at all; but any sporadic openings will not be good, both psychologically and economically, because the whole country is intertwined together. The country is fully integrated and inter dependent on one another; it is a web and it will be very difficult if not impossible to operate some parts of the country with the rest still shut down. Therefore, the best approach is to bravely open the entire country at the same time and now; or don't open any section of it. 

New York and California put together are nearly one fifth of the country's population and controls almost half of the country's entire wealth. The airports in both States, especially in the three named cities, command the highest flights anywhere in the country; then add the hedge funders and venture capitalists who call those three areas home. Many of the flights in the country are between this three cities, both domestic and foreign; so what amount of business will the airline industry be able to carry on without this three cities and their over ten airports. New York' New Jersey ports, Long Beach port and Oakland port are some of the busiest sea parts in the country, so without these cargoes, what type of economic activities will the opened sections of the country conduct? Also, who will fund the businesses that will be opened without Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood venture capitalists and financial traders. 

Therefore, opening some parts of the country for business without this three cities will not be ideal and will be extremely difficult to work out the logistics. If it is not worth doing well then it is probably not worth doing at all; the economy can endure additional few weeks of being on life support and let the whole country open at once and bounce back together as a forceful team of one. That way the energy that will descend on the country will parachute it back to where it was pre Coronavirus, economic dominance. But any haphazard opening will only lead to slow activity as people will still be doubting themselves and wondering if it is safe to go into the water yet. 

They will also be troubled that the government is not going to find a solution to the problem any time soon and will be tepid in going about their business. Many people will also wonder why they were asked to open when the three cities that serve as America's life blood has not opened. There will be fear and panic, especially among factory workers and other people who cannot maintain the 6 feet social distancing among themselves, when a worker coughs. It is better the country is not opened than to open with great trepidation about the unknown and what may be coming down the pike. 

We are all in it together, so let us as a unit, continue to suffer it together and as long as it takes to bring the three cities back to the same acceptable level of infection, so that everybody can be opened at the same time. Moreso, how does anyone prevent an infected person from the not yet opened part of the country from visiting the opened part of the country and vice versa. ICHEOKU thinks the better policy is to institute the wearing of mask in workplaces and that way people can be protected from those who are infected; and if anyone gets too sick, put the person in isolation or rush the person to any of the Coronavirus treatment centers. 

ICHEOKU says open the country at the same time or don't open any part of the country at all, no rushing. Like in natural disasters such as earthquake or tornado and others, where destroyed cities are rebuilt, the economy can be rebuilt, but a lost life ain't coming back. Therefore, let us err on the side of caution, just in case the Chinese Wuhan disease strikes with vengeance in the opened parts of the country and people begin to say had I known. There should be no hurrying to get things back to where they were before, as there is no longer any competition on which country's economy is smoking hot; everyone is now only trying to survive and beat back this humanity's worst affliction. Lets do it together.

PRINCE CHARLES TOO: CORONAVIRUS HAS NO RESPECT FOR ROYALTY

ICHEOKU says one good thing out of the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus is that it is an it is a no respecter of person, it does not give a damn nor care a hoot about who the heck you are. It infects the high and low, the rich and poor, the famous and the obscure, the doctor and the patient, and now it has caught up with a royalty. British Prince Charles is its latest infected person and hopefully he has not spread it to Her Majesty the Queen and her ailing husband Prince Philip, as well as the rest of the royal family, their closeness considered. 

ICHEOKU says hopes that the renegade former Prince Harry has already reached out to commiserate with his daddy, except if his femme fatale Meghan Markle forbade him from doing so. The former prince, as the whole world now knows, will do whatever the royal family wrecker tells him to. If he could turn his back on his family because she made him to, not reaching out to his Coronavirus stricken father will not be hard an order for him to also obey as commanded. 

ICHEOKU says the other good thing about Coronavirus is its global reach; it is an equal opportunity global affliction and no place is safe, otherwise the rich and famous would have since flown out on their private jets to whatever the Island is and forbade other lesser mortals from venturing near there. But ironically, African countries whose citizens have been dying in the thousands, drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, just to get to Italy, are now banning flights from every European country and those Africans hitherto swimming to Italy are now swimming back to Africa as fast as the current would permit. Life is full of cruel jokes, admitted humans beings hardly learn.

Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes Prince Charles a quick recovery and his being infected will now put all the British scientists and researchers on an overdrive, in their attempt to find a cure for the Coronavirus, now that their prince and future King is infected. ICHEOKU says God's speed to everyone involved in finding a cure for the Coronavirus and to all those infected, speedy recovery.

DEBORAH LEAH BIRX: A WOMAN'S WOMAN, GOOD FOR PRESIDENT.

ICHEOKU says she is definitely the type of woman that American people should be celebrating and not those nut jobs in Me Too Movement and other Hollywood trouble makers, who think that the only way to be a female is to constitute themselves into male hating nuisances. Nominate Dr Deborah Leah Birx any day as a presidential candidate of either party and America will have the first female president in the White House, without any dig dallying. 

Most American men have no problem with women leadership, including the presidency; but will resist those wild eyed, crazed out, nut jobs feminists, whose only claim for seeking the presidency is their gender and their desire to have a woman president in the White House. ICHEOKU says but American people will not have just any woman in the White House; so, until her type is allowed the nomination of either party, the Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warrens of America are simply wasting their time thinking that their agitation alone will yield any fruit. 

Her compunction, mannerisms, carriage, poise, intelligence and deep knowledge about things makes her exceptionally qualified and personable for the highest office in the land; and many men in America will agree on this. She is also pleasant to behold, believing that complimenting such a good work of God will not now make ICHEOKU into an automatic  misogynist/sexist pig. But should ICHEOKU care about how some lunatics feel, not in the least. ICHEOKU commends Dr Deborah Leah Birx for the good work which she and her Coronavirus Taskforce are doing trying to reassure American people that the situation is not hopeless and that everything will be ok. Well done doc.

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.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: FIRED FROM MSNBC, HIS SILENCE DID HIM IN.

ICHEOKU says Chris Matthews is the Martin Niemoller of our time, he failed to speak out when other men were being savaged by the scavenging Me Too vultures. He thought that he was immune and that it will never happen to him because he is woke and understands how the game of "suck up" is played. He believed that they loved him and will not do any harm to him, but he is now shellshocked to find out how wrong he was, having underestimated the venomous bile in this people. 

Now, as he joins the continuously growing list of men whose careers were abruptly ended as a result of the Me Too machinations, he must be wondering how and why he misread them; by not understanding that his own truth that his actions were mere innocent overtures differed from the Me Too Movement's own truth that they were unwanted sexual advances. 

Chris Matthew had a big megaphone as a well known anchor and host of Hardball on MSNBC, but he chose not to use it in defense of these men who were wrongly accused of doing something which their truth told them was innocent. He was silent when it would have mattered most for him to speak out, when so many men were being pilloried by the vengeful anarchist Me Too Movement. He refused to speak out in defense of these men because he did not want to be seen as being on the wrong side of the political correctness ravaging the country or abetting them by condoning their alleged misbehaviors. He wanted to play it safe and not offend the rabid Me Too mob, who are looking for men to take their choler out on. He silently watched as these men were singled out and squashed and in some cases, for alleged overtures of three decades ago.

ICHEOKU says what was the point of having such a platform and hosting a "Hardball" show when he is not hard enough to play hardball with these Me Too feminists trouble makers. He did not speak up against the apparent injustice being meted out to these men because of these senseless allegations, some of which were over activities of so many decades past. What manner of a man is he anyway that would be so constrained in the face of such utter injustice, yet pretends to be tough enough in asking hard questions and hosting "Hardball" but could not go to the canvass with the Me Too Movement over their cancel culture, lynch mob mentality. 

When they came for the then candidate Donald John Trump, Chris Matthews did not speak out because he was not a fan nor supporter of Trump. When they came for Fox News Bill O'Reilly, he saw it as a good riddance of a competitor and kept silent. When they came for Charlie Rose of CBS, he did not speak out because the old Charlie deserved everything that the Me Too Movement threw at him. When they came for Fox News Roger Ailes, Chris Matthew ignored it as a karmic of a competing Network. When they came for NBC's Matt Lauer, he explained it away as an overdue retribution for abuse of women gone too far. When they came for Mark Halperin, he did not speak out because his messing around was somewhat of a general knowledge. 

Continuing, when they came for Bill Cosby, Chris Matthews factored in that the old man must have probably done what he was being accused of and therefore deserved the fate which befell him, hence not worth being defended. When they came for Matt Simmerman, again, Chris Matthews did not speak out because it was not convenient. When the same  nut jobs came for CBS's Les Moonves, Chris Matthew did not speak out because it concerns CBS and not MSNBC. When they came for Harvey Weinstein, he did not speak out because Weinstein is a Hollywood casting chair pig and instead, he joined the lynching mob that sent Harvey away for 23 years. 

So, when they finally came for Chris Matthews, there was nobody to stand up for him and in his defense because he was seen as just another of the men who molested women and made them uncomfortable. A pattern has already since been established of men molesting women and Chris Matthews was just added to that increasingly growing long list. So, with nobody to plead his case, save him or rescue him from their jaws of death, career that is; they easily snatched him and crushed him. They threw him down off the cliff and with it, his over two decades long fixture on MSNBC came to a screeching halt, gone with the wind of the Me Too Movement. 

In the hands of the MeToo Movement, no man in America is safe anymore. Men of America have become lambs, silently being led to the slaughter, one lamb at a time and with no  resistance nor support from other men. The question now is after Chris Matthew, who is next; for who does the bell of Me Too Movement toll tomorrow? It is not as if women do not molest men, make sexual innuendoes and comments about men and often times flirt with men; but men usually do not kiss and tell, hence the lack of a "He Too" equivalent cancel culture movement which targets women. But women are different and with them, any man could be easily ruined if targeted. 

How any man could be so easily sacrificed on the alter of political correctness for such a trivial thing as complimenting a woman for her looks or the niceness of her perfume; and somewhat being flirtatious with her is beyond rationality. It would have been different if these women had protested vehemently and unequivocally made it known to these men that their advances and flirtations were not welcomed and forcefully asked them to stop and they didn't. It would have also been unacceptable if these men threatened these women during the course of their lecherous misbehavior to either yield or face dire consequences. 

But to ruin it all for these men, based on complaints by vengeful feminists nut jobs, who are exploiting the political correctness atmosphere in the country, is to say the least callous and devilish. How about a reprimand, an apology and in a worst case scenario, the payment of recompense. But no, their careers, which they worked tirelessly so hard over so many years to build must be destroyed over some hurt feelings of some feminists Me Too creatures from a bottomless, dark, dank cave. It is not okay and should not be acceptable by society, that this career killing virus of cancel culture continue to wreck havoc and ravage males of America. These men have families to feed and take care of and their source of income is being so cavalierly taken away from them just because of some flirtations. 

His fans will surely miss his insightful, deep historical knowledge of politics and his detractors definitely popped bottles of champagne when the news broke that Chris Matthew has been fired from MSNBC; which was respectfully parceled out as retirement. ICHEOKU says there is a procedure for retirement, none of which includes the abrupt announcement of "effective immediately" retirement, so Americans understands bullshitting when one is seen. Chris Matthew was fired from MSNBC, case closed. 

Anyway, the Me Too Movement have succeeded in getting rid of yet another man in a top position in television broadcast. Now fully convinced that their theatrics of levying accusations on men is working as schemed, they will only become more emboldened to go after more men. It is like the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" and the little vampire plant which kept on demanding for human blood to feed its crimson taste; it never ends and will never end with this Me Too cannibals until men of America stand up to confront them and say not any more. 

ICHEOKU says men are increasingly becoming the endangered species in many work places and institutions of learning in America. Men in America are repeatedly being fired from their work places or viciously hounded until they are forced to quit their jobs and go into premature retirements by reason of allegations of unwanted advances and sexual harassments, many of which are fabricated vendetta of many decades past.

Unfortunately, America has somewhat accepted this cancel culture which is wrecking much havoc on men's life, homes and careers throughout the country. Why society so easily fell for such a nonsensical sledgehammer is beyond ICHEOKU. That American society now finds it acceptable that mere complimentary remarks suffices to ground sexual harassment allegation, for which careers are killed instantly, is simply befuddling. Is there no longer something called tolerable flirtations within a work place, otherwise, why does anyone bother to dress well and look good, wearing nice perfume or carrying nice Gucci handbag, to say the least.

Chris Matthews' Hardball show and his many other appearances on MSNBC are no more, gone, just because he flirted and complimented some Me Too sadistic women. He is the latest victim of these anti men, cancel culture hounds of society; people who are angry at themselves and are now threat to every man in America. Where is the protection for men in this era of Me Too Movement invasion of work places or are men this easily disposable to not have a choice in the matter. Just an allegation and they are sent packing, really? It seems the new rule of the thumb is just don't make any Me Too feminist mad, otherwise a simple hello of several decades past would be regurgitated as done against their will and you are toast. 

ICHEOKU says it is incredulous what this Me Too Movement have been allowed to get away with in America just because of political correctness, fear of being railroaded and branded a sexist/misogynist as well. Chris Matthews is now their latest victim and with it his Hardball show. But, with him it could be argued that what goes around have a way of coming around and that he reaped the fruits which he sowed. He did not stand up for those other men-victims of the Me Too Movement before him and now that he became a victim as well, nobody stood up for him. ICHEOKU recalls the mockery which he made of the then candidate Donald John Trump during the Access Hollywood and Stormy Daniels imbroglios of 2016. 

Chris Matthews was never punished by MSNBC for comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Idi Amin and even Satan. He also once said that the president has dementia without having first examined and diagnosed the illness; and the last time ICHEOKU reviewed Chris Matthews' CV, he did not attend any medical school nor qualified as a psychiatrist. But he took extensive liberties attacking the president and other men accused by the Me Too Movement, thinking that he is immune and enjoyed the full confidence of the honchos at NBC and MSNBC. Unfortunately, he was oblivious of the lethality of the Me Too Movement and as soon as his cup filled up, they drove their dagger right through his heart and bled him out like a sacrificial animal. So long Chris.

KENNY ROGERS: FARE THEE WELL, ADIEU..

ICHEOKU says aside of Don Williams, he was ICHEOKU's most favorite country music artist ever lived, especially through the 1980s. The Gambler is ICHEOKU's best song of his, because of its rich moral lesson and life instruction. He made having facial hairs cool and many people wore that Kenny look back in the day. Kenny Rogers died of natural causes; he was 81 years old. May his soul now rest. Adieu Kenny.

TULSI GABBARD: JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN, PLAYING THE GAME.

ICHEOKU says she voted "present" during the impeachment trial, choosing to stay on the fence of indecisiveness, instead of breaking for one side or the other in the political duel. She wanted to play it safe but succeeded in winning nobody's admiration because it did not reflect a true character, courage and conviction despite  her training as a member of the United States military or rather Hawaiian National Guard. 

Indecision is a mark of lack of courage and character as conviction was lacking in her to take a side because she was playing a game of keeps and for a delusional long haul in the primaries. Suddenly, she became decisive and now endorses Joe Biden and you ask yourself why did she continue to remain neutral, continue to sit on the fence, in the ongoing battle for the nomination of the Democratic Party's presidential candidate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. But she is a smooth operator who uses her pretty face as a decoy to charm and deceive people; but beneath it lies a conniving establishment politician who is actively working in concert with the entire Democratic Party establishment to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination of the party. 

ICHEOKU says used to admire her until that "Present" vote during the impeachment trial. which showed her wishy washy nature. It would not have mattered which side she voted for, either to convict or acquit the president, but she should have decisively voted as any convinced, charactered person would. But to try to play it safe by trying to placate both sides of the political divide, shows that she is not a Commander in Chief material, her service in the military notwithstanding. Such a position demands making of decisions and it does not matter whether good or bad, although good will be preferred; but it abhors of prevarications, indecisiveness and needless equivocations that do not a problem solve. 

Query, if she couldn't decide one way or the other during the impeachment of the president,  how was she now able to decide between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, who to endorse? The only explanation is that she is a calculating, conniving and contriving player who gages the direction of the wind before punting on issues. During the impeachment trial she wanted to continue enjoying the airtime which Fox News afforded her with repeat appearances and did not want to vote to convict the president in order not to offend the Network. 

Also she did not want to offend the Democratic Party either, hence she did not vote to acquit the president. But now, that she has withdrawn from the race, she has nothing to lose nor anything to gain by appearing neutral, hence the head first plunge into endorsing Joe Biden, in compliance to a marching order by the Democratic Party for everyone to fall in line behind the former Vice President. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU is not perturbed by the development as everyone knew right from the start that the Democratic Party's establishment will never allow a non member of the party to clinch their presidential nomination ticket. Bernie Sanders is not a member of the Democratic Party, he is an independent and should have no business seeking the nomination of the party in the first place. If he indeed truly wants to make a difference and convinced in his cause, he should have emulated Ross Perot and Ralph Nader by running as an Independent and let the tree fall where it may. 

But unfortunately, he has no fire in his belly to indeed shake up the Democratic Party's establishment, otherwise he would have spoiled it for everybody. If they could denying him the ticket in 2016 and are now again doing the same thing to him in 2020, why can't he push back by registering his disgust at their rigged system and tacit disavowal of him, through an Independent run. But a toothless bulldog only barks but hardly bites and so it is with Bernie Sanders who turned out to be too timid to take a chunk of flesh out of his adversary, the Democratic Party. 

Anyway, Tulsi Gabbard's own time in the political sun is now effectively over and once she loses her battle with Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, her political sun will permanently set, never to rise again. Her performance during her sorry short lived and little accomplished presidential run, which but for the little blimp when she took on Kamala Harris, was rather mediocre and America will not give her a second look. There will be no next time for Tulsi Gabbard nationally, she is toast, done and will soon be forgotten like Alaskan Sarah Palin who sees Russia from her house. Hopefully, Tulsi has some other career she plans to pursue going forward. She has already denied being a Russian asset otherwise Putin would have made her rich with some consulting business. But hey, so long Tulsi!

CORONAVIRUS: DOING WHAT NO ARMY COULD DO TO AMERICA.

ICHEOKU says when one thought that 9/11 was so devastating to the United States of America, here comes the mother of all devastations, as America is reeling under its weight, the ravaging Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus. ICHEOKU says it will be tough but hopeful of a stronger and more united country when the scourge is over. May the government's best efforts at winning the war against the Chinese Coronavirus translate into a successful outcome and quickly too. God's speed America!

CORONAVIRUS: CALIFORNIA UNDER LOCKDOWN, IS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY NEXT?

ICHEOKU says remember the old saying as California goes so goes America and you wonder whether the government at the center in Washington DC will put the entire country under a complete lockdown now that the trailblazing pacesetter State of California has put its 40 million residents under a complete total lockdown or as the government would rather say, shelter in. 

California governor Gavin Newsom announced the development today as he ordered residents to stay at home and only venture out for food, medicine and other life essentials. ICHEOKU says ponders what comes next and whether the upwardly mobile Californians will comply and adapt to a life they are not used to or will simply resist the order to do time for an offense which they did not commit, by staying home and not going out to indulge in their behavioral habits including dinning out, hanging out, doing neighborhood strolls and going to beaches. 

ICHEOKU says no matter what happens, anything that will help bring the rampaging Chinese Wuhan disease under control will be good for Californians; as a short lockdown now is definitely a better and preferred inconvenience than a long agony of so many infections and likely deaths later. Italy, China, South Korea and Iran have shown what happens when a society is indifferent and rather reluctant to act swiftly to wrestle the Wuhan Coronavirus immediately. Let's hope that it will not be as that bad with Californians as well as the rest of the country; a hope which is somewhat suspenseful  because the governor also added that more than 56% of Californians might be infected by the disease and many of them will likely succumb to it. 

ICHEOKU wishes and prays for the best possible outcome; and says if the government at the center in Washington DC will follow suit, that they do so immediately so that the whole country can come out of the lockdown at the same time to begin the rebuilding process simultaneously. The Coronavirus has shown that we are not really as in control of things as we arrogantly think of ourselves. Imagine the United States of America tumbling down from its booming life is good times just a few short weeks ago, to where it is reeling now under the weight of Coronavirus, invisible microscopic organism. How the mighty American has suddenly buckled, succumbed to an enemy that is not even visible to the naked eyes, is a lesson in humility. But from the ashes of the expected devastation, America will rise again, stronger than ever. May God continue to bless America and save it from the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus invasion.

BERNIE SANDERS: ITS TIME TO THROW IN THE TOWEL.

ICHEOKU says with yesterday's 3:0 victory over Bernie Sanders by Joe Biden, it is now a mathematical impossibility which freezes every possible road going forward, for Bernie Sanders to still clinch the nomination of the Democratic Party. A wise Bernie Sanders should now cut his losses and not prolong his suffering as his defeat was sealed with yesterday's election. It is now a mission impossible for him to catch up or meet and surpass Joe Biden as most of the delegate rich States are already done, including California, Texas and Florida. A matter not helped by the fact that the establishment Democrats want Joe Biden and not him as their preferred candidate nominee. Also, the other progressives co-leader and former presidential candidate wanna be Elizabeth Warren's refusal to endorse Bernie Sanders says a lot too, that "nobody likes him" within the Democratic Party's establishment. 

Therefore, it will be foolhardy of him trudging on, in continuation of the primaries process, the odds against his securing the nomination weighted. He should have called for the postponement of the primaries because of the Coronavirus, aware that his support base are millennials and other snowflake who are risk averse and would not risk going to the voting stations afraid they might contact the virus. He should also have won last Sunday's debate but didn't, as he developed cold feet and was very reluctant to go full throttle metal jacket at Joe Biden. 

This is the end of the road for his campaign to win the nomination of the Democratic Party. His option now is to either support Joe Biden or declare his intention to run as an Independent; that way, he can ruin it for everybody as a lesson to the Democratic Party establishment not to mess with Bernie, not again. They had their way with him in 2016 and it is likely the thunder will strike twice again this 2020. It is sad and it is pitiful that there is no democracy in the Democratic Party and that a whole political party's establishment can gang up against just one man in this manner. 

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Joe Biden for coming back from the dead and routing Bernie Sanders without spending time and capital pursuing the nomination. What a nice present. To Bernie Sanders, ICHEOKU says please make up your mind fast on the way forward, so that you may comfort millions of people whose hopes were raised their that everything will be free in America, so that they can now  begin to heal. So long Sanders and welcome to former Vice President Joe Biden v President Donald John Trump 2020, let the duel begin; but first the Coronavirus has to be taken care of.

CORONAVIRUS IS A NO RESPECTER OF PERSON: KEVIN DURANT TOO?

ICHEOKU says like Magic Johnson's HIV/AIDS announcement of November 7, 1991 which finally brought the scourge to the people's full attention, the infection of Brooklyn Nets' Kevin Durant with the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus, will definitely create more awareness about the devastating disease. It is sad and it is unfortunate that China has exported such a deadly disease to the world and the world is now a hellish place because of them. 

ICHEOKU says may be it is about time the world considers kicking China out of many World Organizations for misleading the world about the outbreak of the Wuhan Coronavirus and not alerting of it early enough, when the scourge would have been significantly contained and confined within its epicenter in Hubei Province. But no, their secretive attitude made them hide it for too long until it went out of control and now the entire humanity is living in mortal fear for their lives while many have since died from the disease. 

To Kevin Durant and many other similarly infected persons in America and throughout the world, ICHEOKU says get better soon, have a quick recovery and prays the government will solve the problem before too long. Away with the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus disease!