If you KNOW a hurricane is coming, it’s huge and devastating and have little children, how do you act?
First, you don’t become reactionary.
You don’t bring the kids outside every half hour with a wind speed indicator to show them the winds are increasing. You don’t show them the radar every five minutes. You don’t shout out the barometric pressure drops every fifteen minutes.
There’s nothing you can do to change the facts that IT IS COMING AND IT WILL BE BAD.
CV19 is like that hurricane that IS coming and soft Americans are too often like the little children.
Taking CDC tests won’t stop it. It will only cause panic as the true numbers are revealed. CV19 is already here.
20,000 Chinese were already in the US before fights stopped. Besides that, it was already in other countries from whence people traveled.
There was and is no stopping it.
No need to give the kiddos, especially the bad elements in society, a panic scenario.
Best to calmy prepare the kids, the adults and the country for the KNOWN next steps the adults WILL have to take and calmly prepare the kids for that safety and the safety of the nation.
This is what’s happening. The fed gov has been preparing for harsh measures to come. The continued calm that POTUS is pushing is giving time for behind the scenes preparation. Think looting, marital law, think quarantines, maybe worse. We are not the obedient Chinese society. Many of our ferrel youth are we see and do to are many adults. To much of our society is not emotionally mature enough to be prepared for what’s coming, so the adults are preparing for the inevitable storm.
Thankfully, notice is now given “get some supplies ready for a possible (I suspect PROBABLE) rough ride to come.
P.s. Clean your guns. Know which neighbors got your back. Be silent about the level of your preparation, or friends, neighbors and family WILL come-A-knocking.
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Watching the reaction around here is like watching little children.
But, I disagree in that not everyone is like us and paying attention. There is a healthy size of sensible people who would prepare if given stern and serious advisement. Now, they'll never prepare until it's too late. Especially when the president gets up there and says it is under control.It would also keep people from congregating in large gatherings and groups.
Panic is coming. I don't know the difference if it is next week or next month, other than the time gives the elites time to make their financial and physical moves. (they deserve time for neither)
Just read this part of your post. Makes sense. I have been saying since day 1, we have a massive underclass that can't think beyond the next 15 minutes. They'll be out in masse.
It's now the 27th, or 25 days minimum after the ban on Chinese nationals. Unless there are a whole bunch of asymptomatic carriers, which would mean a whole bunch of cases popping up, I don't think we need to look at those 20K.
So that leaves three groups:
Chinese married to US citizens that were allowed in after the 5th,
Chinese who 'beat the system' by staying in Singapore or Japan or Dubai, etc., until the 14 days from mainland china restrictions were expired, and then flew into the US.
Or, travelers from other than China flying into the US before we added their countries to the list of countries requiring enhanced screening (Taiwan, Singapore, hong kong, Japan, etc).
Customs and BP need to run their databases and locate these folks' destinations within the US
p.s, I agree completely that you don't want your neighbors to know you're preparing or that you have provisions. Not that one's neighbors might be a threat, but they tell someone, who tells someone who tells someone...