"These times are so uncertain There's a yearning undefined. People filled with rage. We all need a little tenderness .How can love survive in such a graceless age?" The Eagles, The Heart of the Matter
March 18, 2020
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Abigail Adams probably wished her biggest problem was whether she had enough toilet paper.
Husband John Quincy had to be away from home quite a bit of the time, so whatever happened in their family, and to their farm, Abbie had to handle it.
That included smallpox.
In July 1776, an epidemic of the contagious and deadly disease broke out. And John was away.
John Quincy Adams was a prominent and vital leader of the American Revolution. A spirited defender of breaking ties with England.
He helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and was a member of the First Continental Congress, travelling 365 miles from his home in Braintree, Massachusetts, to Constitutional Hall in Philadelphia.
On horseback.
Those were inconvenient times.
In 1775, inoculation was not new, but the procedure and recovery lasted a month, and was painful and controversial.
Infected pustules were placed under a cut in the skin;
The inoculation had to have time to "take hold;"
And afterwards, a patient's "recovery" was fraught with fevers, vomiting, erupting pustules, and physical pain.
Those were very inconvenient times.
Abigail and her four children had not been inoculated against smallpox when the epidemic occurred. As her husband was away, she had to make the difficult decision to have herself and the children inoculated.
She made the decision, then travelled to a doctor in Boston, carrying their belongings with them.
"We had our Bedding &c to bring. A Cow we have driven down from Braintree, and some Hay I had, put into the Stable, wood, &c."
"God grant that we may all go comfortably throthe Distemper," she wrote to her husband, "The phisick part is bad enough, I know."
History repeats itself, and people never change.
In Adams' day, some supported independence from England. Tories pledged allegiance to the Crown.
Today there are those who pledge allegiance to China.
In Hollywood. In the Democrat Party. In the media.
In the president's press conference today, journalists were more interested in defending China than they were in the safety of their own country.
ABC reporter Cecelia Vega asked the president why he uses the term "Chinese virus," when speaking about the Coronavirus, implying this was racist.
"Because it comes from China," Trump reasonably replied. "It's not racist at all...It comes from China. That's why. It comes from China."
She and other reporters weren't as interested in the Naval hospital ships, the "Mercy" and "Comfort," the president is providing, to be deployed to New York Harbor. Another to the Left Coast.
The ships will provide hospital beds, operating rooms, labs and pharmacies for states whose governors have never uttered a kind word about this president.
Invoking the Defense Production Act did not pique journalists' interest. This is the act which will give the president the power to have civilian businesses help produce products necessary for our country's national defense.
Despite the gravity of the threat the Coronavirus poses to our country, Leftists in the media, entertainment and government are more interested in parsing the president's words for political Chinese correctness, while ignoring big news.
Such as China hasn't been very nice.
China has blocked coverage of the Wuhan virus by revoking press passes from reporters at the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Washington Post.
China has made independent Chinese reporters disappear after they are critical of the Communist Party's handling of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
And China has been allowed to produce products and materials Americans need.
Such as antibiotics. Sterile masks. Critical medical equipment.
Who sold off America like this?
But the mainstream media would not ask that question if it meant criticizing China.
And they did not choose to point out that Capitalism and our president have made America the great country it is.
Or to say that unlike Venezuela and Socialist countries that Bernie and Biden praise, empty supermarket shelves have been unheard of in our country.
And that our current president uplifts in ways the media and Socialists will never understand.
"Now it's our time," the president said in today's press conference, calling himself a Wartime President.
"We must sacrifice together, because we are all in this together, and we will come through together. It's the invisible enemy. That's always the toughest enemy, the invisible enemy."
Journalists don't write about how great our country is, and they should.
Because in America, if you want it, you can have it.
Whatever you want. Wherever you want to go. Whomever you want to be.
And it is because some people did something.
Like John and Abigail Adams. Like our other Founding Fathers.
And like President Donald John Trump.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots.