b'Editor(that they ultimately dont care about) from the capitalist Westhas provided the rich climate we find in 2020 for a polar shift in the worlds power structure.Knowing they have control over our medical manufacturing and pharmaceuti-cals, and knowing that the WHO was their puppet and would endorse their propa-ganda, and knowing that the United States had no plan to handle a deadly pandemic, and knowing that they would be supported by our corporate mediawhat better way to take a giant leap forward in the centuries-long struggle for Chinese dominance in the world, than to attack the Western World, the United States being the primary target, with this virus? If they did, the plan is working perfectly. If it was an accident, the outcome such that it is so far is resulting in a boost to Chinese power and influ-ence, and not a decline. Either way, much is being learned about America in the eyes of China. Thus far, Covid-19 is exposing us as a paper tigerbold and loud, equipped with deadly claws and teeth, but vulnerable to skillful trickery like the trap that closes tighter, the harder we try to escape.So, what now?AT LAST, HE BECAME THE PRESIDENT.In the storied history of the New York Stock Exchange, Black Monday refers to Oc-tober 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (30 of Americas largest pub-licly traded companies) fell 22.6%, which then equalled 508 points. The new Black Monday was February 24th, when the market dropped over 1,000 points, starting a landslide that would amount to more than 3,500 points lost off the Dow Jones aver-age, equal to about 13% and over $3 trillion in American wealthall by the end of the week. As late as the middle of the week, Trumps White House was on orders to calm the markets by downplaying the severity of the pandemic, even as Covid-19 had taken its first lives in Europe and the first cases had been reported in the U.S.Larry Kudlow, chief economic advisor to the President and former CNBC tele-vision personality, said that the coronavirus was pretty close to airtight and, I dont think its going to be an economic tragedy at all. Republican spokesperson, now White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox Business, [Presi-dent Trump] will always protect American citizens. We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here. Trump himself, in the face of trillions in financial losses and more than 60 confirmed cases in the U.S., held a campaign rally in Charleston, South Carolina, at the end of the week on the 28th in which he, as it turned out, would get his last big chance to vent his frustration over criticism being levied toward him over the federal response to Covid-19.Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, the President proclaimed, to which the audience responded with boos.TheCoastalBend.com THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEQ2.2020 35'