NO LESS, NO MORE

If you have ever been to Tombstone, Arizona you can find the grave of Lester Moore:

“HERE LIES, Lester Moore, FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44, NO LES, NO MORE”

A lot of people know about his grave marker, but few know anything else about Lester Moore. It is unlikely he was even killed in Tombstone. The story is that he worked in a Wells Fargo office in Naco, Arizona. Hank Dunston arrived one day to claim a package. He was angry because the package was damaged, so he shot Lester Moore four times. Les was hit four times in the chest, but he still managed to shoot and kill Hank Dunston. Les Moore’s body was moved to Tombstone for burial. No one seems to know where Hank Dunston ended up.

Actually there are no records verifying any of this. They are not even sure Lester Moore even existed. There is no record of a Wells Fargo employee named Lester Moore. There was a Lewis Moore who lived in Tombstone but no one seems to know what happened to him. No one even knows who wrote the epitaph on that famous tombstone in Tombstone or when it was written.

The following article explains all this.  I love the final sentence:

http://www.americancowboychronicles.com/2017/06/lester-moore-no-less-no-more.html

“I can’t help but wonder if it’s true, that there was no Moore?”

I now predict that people will remember more about the national shutdown of the economy because of the panic fueled by the fake news than they will the virus itself. That is because not that many people will die and contrary to the hysterical ranting on CNN and other channels, if it comes back it will not be a serious problem.

Granted, some people in CNN will try. They will warn that if we move too fast, this will come back even worse. But, that is absurd. If it does come back, we are far better prepared to deal with it. We now can test in a matter of minutes. Precautions will be taken to protect those most vulnerable. Treatments, including hydroxychloroquine will be readily available. Doctors already have learned how this virus works and how to fight back. It will be nothing like what we experienced over the past month or so.

We have an oversupply of ventilators, personal protective equipment and temporary hospitals. A significant portion of this will be shipped overseas with the rest put into emergency stockpiles.

The coronavirus is so over. All of the trends, both in New York and the rest of the country are rapidly trending down. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Delaware all said they are working together to reopen the region’s economies and other elements. Once that happens the rate of reopening will go faster than the speed at which things shut down. Trump is right about that. There is a pent up demand in this country to get back to normal and only a fool would get in the way of that.

Democrats have made a monumental error. Not all of them, but the CNN wing of the party still dreams that this will be Trump’s Katrina. The problem is that the U.S. handled this better than anywhere else and that is increasingly obvious. Now Trump is going to be leading the way on getting things reopened.

What is CNN going to do? Tell everyone to wait for Fauci? Few will put up with that. None of the worst case scenarios came close to being true. Was this because of the shutdown? We will never know for sure. What we do know is that this was a case study in what our future will look like if Democrats take control. It allowed all of us to realize how vulnerable we are to an out of control government that wants to micro-manage every detail of our lives. They came, we saw and none of us will be as willing to play the game next time. While CNN is slamming Trump for not doing more, a lot of people are going to be far more focused on whether or not this was all necessary.

Another huge problem for Democrats is they can’t blame Trump, for over-reacting, when they have been criticizing him for not doing more. Even the hard core liberal left will have trouble buying that.

There has been one other significant change. People finally came to grips with how much of our economy was outsourced to China. We now know the cost of being dependent on people who are not dependable. The cheap goods were great, but cheap came at a very high cost. A lot of people are going to take an ABC approach, anywhere but China. That is going to hurt a lot of people, including some that will surprise you. Big business, like the NBA, Google, Apple and others went all in on China. A lot of people went all in on China. The day of reckoning is at hand.

This is a period of time we will all remember. We will remember having all sporting events cancelled. We will recall social distancing and the run on toilet paper. But we won’t remember much about COVID 19, because when you think about it, it just didn’t impact that many people. Granted, 22,000 deaths is a lot, but it is less than what happens during a normal flu season. Perhaps people will just say thank God we dodged a bullet. At least some people will do that. Few will want to even consider the alternative, that none of this was really necessary. Ultimately, I don’t think anyone will end up with a lot of blame. But no one wants to go through this again.

Like the tombstone, one has to wonder whether, once again, less might be more. One thing is certain, few of us have any interest in repeating the bizarre world we live in today where cities are deserted and the primary social activity is going to Walmart on a toilet paper hunt.

TDM