By Selwyn Duke

It has long been warned that the reusable shopping bags Democrat state governments have pressured people to use were disease vectors. And years ago already, a study indicated that plastic-bag bans lead to a 50-percent increase in food-borne illness deaths. This threat takes on a new dimension, however, with the Wuhan virus crisis. In fact, some supermarkets are “banning” reusable bags and are providing paper or plastic ones gratis to protect employees and customers from the virus.

The kicker is that “single-use” bag bans were never necessary in the United States and, contrary to myth, accomplish nothing positive environmentally.

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By Selwyn Duke

While New Jersey is now facing a lawsuit for violating the Second Amendment, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio appears bent on trampling the first one by threatening to shut down churches and other worship houses permanently.

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By Selwyn Duke

Recently lamenting a politician who gained popularity “with the determined assistance of a movement that denies science,” you could think the New York Times was referencing Hillary Clinton and the Big Gender lobby. But the Gray Lady’s Katherine Stewart was actually talking about President Trump and his Christian supporters. Yet her op-ed, “The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response,” only illustrates how the media’s hostility to journalistic ethics is crippling our whole civilization.

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By Selwyn Duke

“My mother is not expendable, and your mother is not expendable,” said New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo at a recent news conference on the Wuhan coronavirus. “And our brothers and sisters are not expendable. And we’re not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable. And we’re not going to put a dollar figure on human life. The first order of business is save lives, period — whatever it costs.”

Noble words, though some may say that our brothers and sisters certainly are expendable, by Cuomo’s lights, if they happen to be in a womb. This is the governor, do note, who last year signed into law a bill that can allow prenatal infanticide (abortion) up till birth.

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By Selwyn Duke

My, what could they be hiding? An astute parent might thus wonder after learning that college professors are currently strategizing on how to hide their lectures from public view now that Wuhan virus-policy has forced a transition to online courses.

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By Selwyn Duke

While some experts say the lockdowns and lost income in combating the Wuhan flu are unnecessary, there’s a question that would provide relevant insight but is too politically incorrect to ask:

What percentage of Wuhan virus hospitalizations and deaths are accounted for by the homeless?

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By Selwyn Duke

The Wuhan flu may be a bio-weapon, the latest theory goes — but not one that might have somehow escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Instead, the claim is that the disease was created in American “bio-terrorism” labs and designed as an “ethnic weapon” that targets the genome of Iranians and Chinese, according to news outlet MEMRI.  

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By Selwyn Duke

Firearm ownership may be guaranteed under our Constitution by the Second Amendment. But it’s secondary at best to the New Jersey officials who’ve closed down gun stores during our Wuhan flu panic, calling them non-essential. Now two Garden State officials — who some would say are non-essential themselves — are being sued for trampling constitutional rights.

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By Selwyn Duke

President Trump never actually said the Wuhan flu was a “hoax,” and it certainly isn’t in the sense that there is a virus officially known as “SARS-CoV-2” circulating among world populations. Yet a large number of observers believe that an aspect of this situation is in the nature of a hoax; that is, the reaction — or, some would say, overreaction — to it.

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By Selwyn Duke

There have been approximately 225,000 hospitalizations and 20,000 deaths. Ninety percent of the deceased are elderly, and 90 percent have underlying medical conditions.

I’m talking about the flu, by the way, and the toll it takes annually in just the United States alone.

As for the Wuhan virus, there are 18,170 confirmed cases in the U.S., with 250 confirmed deaths. Eighty percent of the deceased are elderly, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tells us, and data from Italy show that 99 percent had underlying medical conditions. So it’s good we’re reacting to the disease the same way we do to the flu.

Except we’re not, of course.

With the flu we go about our daily lives, not even noting that 61,000 people died during the 2017-18 season alone. With the Wuhan virus, too many people have become Chicken Little.

Some experts warn that this is where the true danger lies, too. After all, there are risks associated with trying too hard to avoid risks.

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