Your Wuhan China Virus from China Saturday Updates

There are 890 cases of the Chinese Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China in New Jersey, 30 cases in Somerset County and five cases in Bridgewater.

Number of announced cases here in Chindia: 0.0.

Announced.

So we did a little research and it turns out there are 8,900,000 people in New Jersey and 42,000 people in Somerset County. We don't mean to downplay things. We believe there is anecdotal evidence that America has had the CCP China Virus for much longer than is believed.

Anecdotal.

The week of home schooling went better than we ever expected it would go.

We have 100 pages to go on World War 1990: Battle of the Three Seas. Here's what that means. We are reading the hard copy, noting a few words we'd like to change, noting a few typos. We will make those changes to the final Word doc. Once that is completed we will go back through the hard copy, check that we made the changes and check that those changes are correct. Then we're done.

Nuke 1975 is 10,000 words. Can we finish it by April? No idea. In April Nederlandse becomes numero uno, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honco, el jeffe grande.

We've been doing some light weight lifting and push-ups followed by 5 miles on the exercise bike. It's a decent sweat anyway and takes 45 minutes. Our normal workouts were an hour.

The Strooklettes have taken to doing 'Corona' dances. Mrs. Stroock does not approve.

New Jersey's Attorney General, one Gurbir S Grewal, Tweeted that it might be illegal to say that the China Virus from Wuhan China comes from Wuhan China. You people know what we did next.

@NewJerseyOAG I am a lawful resident of #NewJersey and have been referencing the #ChineseWuhanVirus from #Wuhan #china on my blog everyday. Come and get me, copper. https://t.co/NQORoZn1KE

— William Stroock (@WStroock) March 21, 2020

China Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China Stimulates

There are 742 cases of the Chinese Wuhan Corona Virus from China in New Jersey, including 23 in Somerset County and five here in Bridgewater.

Number of announced cases here in Chindia: 0.0

Announced. We have our suspicions though. Mrs. Stroock just told us to STFU. She's right. She's always right.

Another decent day here in Casa-de-Stroock. Good academics with plenty of outside time. Having a 13 year old at home like this can be fun (set irony detectors to max).

We haven't really talked about the political implications of the Chinese Wuhan Corona Virus, but we think Trump is doing a great job on both the Wuhan China Corona Flu and the economic impact of the Chinese Corona Virus from Wuhan China.

[Come-on, when did you start supporting economic stimulus and gub'ment checks?-Ed]

I'll stimulate something for you, Bitch.

Anyway, yes, we come from that wing of the GOP that tried for 25 years to do something about runaway spending. Nobody cares. We've changed our mind about lots of things since the mid-90's. We were in our mid-20s, after all. There's an idea for a post.

As far as the debt doing us in goes, well, we've heard about that since the Reagan years and it never seems to happen. We bet nobody reading this remembers the Gramm-Rudmann Act. As the great John Nolte (PBUH) says, it's a hoax, like global warming. Remember, John Nolte is always right. So we're bailing out the banks and the public. The politics of that are great, just the best, really first rate.

Your Combined Wuhan Virus Chromebook Delivery Debacle Post

Announced Wuhan Corona-virus cases in Chindia: 0.0

Announced.

The number of Wuhan Corona-virus cases in New Jersey is 69 including two deaths. No new cases in Somerset county or Bridgewater.

Mrs. Stroock ordered a pair of Chromebooks for the girl's e-classroom from a non-disclosed big-box retailer with the understanding that they would arrive yesterday. They did not arrive yesterday. Then she called customer service. Big mistake- for them. Pro-tip when a woman who spends a lot of time running big-pharma help-lines calls your customer service line, bring your A-game. 'Daddy! Mommy asked to speak to a supervisor,' to which we replied, 'Uh-oh' and went outside to get a head start on the yard work.

Needless to say, we have the Chromebooks. 

The Chinese Wuahn Virus and The Dems

This blog can think of ways to attack Trump over the Chinese Wuhan Virus*, but slamming him over travel bans ain't it.  As we asked our own moronic virtual signaling d-bag  congressman who worked for a state department which sent Iran pallets of cash, Tom Malinowski, would you have someone from Florence in your home? I've already tweeted hin, offering his staff proofing jobs for when they're looking for work next January.

Sunsetting Slow Joe and that degenerate communist from Vermont are debating on Sunday, will the panelists even ask them practical questions about containment and treatment? Of course not. Every question will be framed in a way so as to bash Trump.

Oh and San Fran Nan tried to sneak abortion funding into the Corona bill. A great Strategerist is that one.

Any pundits actually worried about these people beating Trump and the GOP in November needs to stop commenting on politics and follow something more their speed. Like a spelling Bee.*

*What's with the tests? Why not do all this two weeks ago?
**Reference. Also those Indian and Chinese kids are waaaaaay smarter then they.

Italian Coronavirus Update

Our Italian correspondent reports a leftist leader has been infected and provinces are quarantined. 

He's not in the red zone and resides in the center right blue dot. He says the health care system is under stress but holding up, 'Quite proud of Italian healthcare, I have to say. For number and % of tested people we outperformed everyone except South Korea. And no one will be billed for that*, so there's no risk that someone will not report the simptoms.'

*Goddamn socialists. I would demand to be billed.

The Combined Chinese Takeout, Math score and Corona Virus Update

Our man on the ground in Italy reports 1128 cases and 29 deaths. 

As readers can see, Espresso supplies are holding out. There's no rationing. Yet.

The number of announced cases here in Chindia is 0.0.

Announced.

Oldest daughter was furious last night becuase she wanted Chinese takeout, and well...no. Just no. Also no Thai or Vietnamese.

[What the actual fuck?-Ed].

Our Chinese is...ok. If we were up in the Stroock Northern Strategic direction, well, we'd risk it. People, when a Jew tells you a Chinese restaurant has the best Chinese food he's ever had, believe him.

In other Chindian news, Oldest Daughter's Chinese BFF failed a math test.

[Oh come on,-Ed]

We're serious.

When they were facetiming we stood over Oldest Daughter's shoulder and shook our head judgmentally. 

Oh, we had a suspected Corona Virus case in neighboring Monmouth county, about half an hour from here. Turns out to be a false alarm.

What Will Watched

Trump's Presser: He really should have just said a few things and handed it over to Pence. That said, the rest of the presser went great, with the doctors looking cool knowledgeable and Pence looking like the straight man in charge. By then Trump had gathered his thoughts and was back to full Trump. Ben Shapiro thinks he shouldn't be doing this at all, but Shapiro is often off half a Roentgen or more.

2/10/20 in New Jersey

News12NJ tells us:

The Anthem of the Seas remains docked in Bayonne since returning Friday, but Royal Caribbean says the cruise ship will still set sail today. According to Royal Caribbean, boarding will take place today until 1 p.m. The ship was supposed to leave Saturday night....More than two dozen passengers from China traveling aboard the cruise ship were screened for signs of the new virus after the ship returned to Bayonne early Friday morning.

Given this region's demographics, it's going to be impossible to not have a few cases, right? Right? You people know where we live. Our oldest daughter's BFF is Chinese, and her parents have a whole box of those masks. Actually, you saw people wearing those around here before the Coronavirus, as it's a custom, see, with all the polution back home.

2/5/20 in New Jersey

Uh oh....

For the first time, a person in New Jersey has been placed into mandatory quarantine over the threat of the coronavirus, a source familiar with the response effort told NJ Advance Media. The woman — who is not a New Jersey resident — flew from Hubei, China to Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday, said the source, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Of course we live here, so we've been giving half our neighbors the stink-eye. Given this news we're going to upgrade to the evil-eye. Heh, we understand the kids are having fun with this in school. Sneezes and coughs are met with cries of 'Corona Virus!' That's not annoying for teachers, no. Sounds like it's time for a stern, Joe Friday like lecture from the prinicpal. Mrs. Stroock gave us the glare-of-doom at the dinner table for thinking that's hillarious.

1/30/20 in New Jersey

Via News12NJ: 

Gov. Phil Murphy says his administration has set up a 24-hour hotline to answer the public's questions about the deadly virus that has hit China and beyond as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to screen travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport flying into the U.S. from China.

Our middle daughter is obsessed with this. Coronavirus is totally a thing with the kids.

Of course we live in Chindia. We're a little....nervous isn't the word. Pensive? Apprehensive? We think most of our Chinese neighbors are from the Beijing metro-area or Taiwan. Right? Right!

Wither China

The trade war, the Hong Kong protests, now this Coronavirus outbreak which seems like a massive public health crisis...

Others have compared the outbreak to Chernobyl, which Gorby thought marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. And why not? China is an authoritarian regime. Beijing has a corrupt and complacent ruling class. The system is held up by lies.

We think Powerline has the measure of the situation. They point out something we've said for twenty years. There's always a nation liberals admiring say will surpass America. Japan and Germany, later the EU (that was always a joke), now China. Whose next?

Once more an authoritarian system is exposed.

Whatever is happening, and we don't know the truth about China yet, and whatever happens, Chairman Xi is having a bad couple of years.