The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out 40% of the U.S. economy, quadruple the federal deficit to $3.7 trillion and push the national debt to nearly $27 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office reports.

Nashville Mayor Cooper today filed the city’s recommended operating budget for fiscal year 2021 with the Metro Council.

The Democratic Mayor wants to hike the city’s property tax by 32% to recover.

There was a big hoo-hah this week when the top health official in Virginia seemed to say that Virginia would not reopen until a vaccine was developed and in use, which might take up to two years. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, has done and said so many outrageous things that the comment was believable.

But, as in the economic decline that is taking place so rapidly, all things come back to the dynamic duo of economic destruction: Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.

n fact, COVID-19 will go down as one of the political world’s biggest, most shamefully overblown, overhyped, overly and irrationally inflated and outright deceptively flawed responses to a health matter in American history, one that was carried largely on the lips of medical professionals who have no business running a national economy or government.

The facts are this: COVID-19 is a real disease that sickens some, proves fatal to others, mostly the elderly — and does nothing to the vast majority.

That’s it.

That, in a nutshell, is it.