I Say, CHARGE! Mr. President

I Say CHARGE!
More and more frequently we are hearing from those in the medical world that this coronavirus is no more potent than the flu (though the flu is very deadly, especially in vulnerable communities). I am still of the opinion, though I confess I am not confidently so, that the way to defeat the virus is to attack against it, accept that there will be losses, and get the thing whipped. Our trouble today is twofold:

First, we have no leader willing to accept the losses.

Second, we have few willing to be among the casualties.

When Eisenhower ordered the troops on D-Day he knew there would be heavy losses and that many of those would die very hard deaths. He did not want any of them to die. He would have loved a solution for victory without loss. Still, victory was a valuable enough treasure to pay the price.

Those soldiers who stormed the beaches did not want to die. They knew that many of them would and, as I understand it, they had trained not to stop at the body of a fallen soldier except to gather his ammunition for his own use. They did not want to die but they knew victory against the enemy was worth the price, even if it was their own life.

When Abraham Lincoln finally found Grant[1] it as not that either man wished or men to die. One of Lincoln’s early problems was that, before Grant, none of his generals was willing to pay the price of loss of life, Union or Confederate. Grant understood that the only way to eventually end the bloodshed was to shed blood – on both sides.

No soldier in the Union army wanted to die. They each hoped that they would be among those who survived the conflict. Still, they were relieved to finally have a general who would press the enemy. They knew no solution would ever happen until the enemy was pressed to defeat.

The medical “experts on today’s task force are afraid to lose a life in the process of winning the war. All efforts have been focused on mass-producing not weapons, but survival gear. Our factories, for the most part, have been converted to making supplies for surviving a long siege instead of the tools of attack.

I say, Attack, Mr. President!

Ignore the milquetoast media

Replace the soft members of the task force

Follow your instincts toward victory

•             Find effective weapons
•             Find a Grant, an Eisenhower
•             Rally the American people[2]

And CHARGE!

Marvin McKenzie

In the fields (Anxious to storm the beaches.)

@realDonaldTrump, #bbcpuyallup, #coronavirus, #covid-19

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[1] Who was himself a junior officer but had gained of the reputation of fighting the enemy.

[2] Increasingly, Doctors and other medical professionals are stepping up who, though junior officers like Grant was, are willing to press this enemy.