Texas congressman Mike McCaul, a very pretty man with Rick Perry hair, married the daughter of the Clear Channel Communications owner and suddenly gained 50 IQ points in his own head.

McCaul is fine if you don’t get him off script. He is always fully scripted, and combed. Well, except for this morning when he was talking about Coronavirus.

“I don’t think it’s time to panic,” he insisted. “The risk is still low. To put it in perspective, we had 350 million cases of the flu this year alone in the United States and somewhere between 20,000 to 50,000 deaths.”

Oh My God! We had 350 million cases of the flu right here in the old ole US of A?

That right there alone is a damn good reason to panic.  The Census Bureau estimates the population of America to be 329 million, so if 350 million of them got flu, we have broken arithmetic. Don’t even think about fractions, double digit subtraction where you have to borrow twice, calculus, algebra, or the backwards countdown before you yell Blast Off! We broke it, apparently with the flu. The fact that we haven’t heard about is a giant faux media activity.