Posted on 03/15/2020 9:14:24 PM PDT by Teacher317
It may be irrational, it may be highly unlikely, it may be entirely disproportional to the actual impact thus far, but...
WHAT IF... What if Trump announces a 14-day US quarantine?
We Americans are a contrarian bunch... urban centers are not down for being patient or compliant... The Poor are not going to be able to survive for 14 days with their current resources, and they will not be able to survive a 14-day skip in their pay cycles...
Personally, I don't see how it makes any actual difference to the covid-19 issue. The virus won't magically disappear from the nation even if it is a wonderfully successful effort, and we will be right back where we are today within a month or so afterwards.
I think that one guy is really pushing this. I forget his name but starts with an “A.”
No way can we all survive that.
Our store shelves are still empty.
......he’ll extend it at the end of that 14 days.
The sheeple will follow.
As far as the poor go, we will see suspensions of evictions and utility shut-offs, with the losses papered over with printed money, which reduces the problem to feeding people.
This has become stupid. Politicians don’t know what runs an economy. They think goods and services just appear because they allow it.
Politicians should be talking about maintaining normalcy in business, manufacturing, distribution and logistics.
Ignoring the political question for the moment - it would likely reduce/delay the spread of the virus and break many infection chains that would have otherwise formed. While it is true that pretty much everyone is going to get infected at some point before a workable vaccine is made, the point is to reduce the infection *rate* to something our medical system can handle. As several people have pointed out - we actually have less ICU beds per 1000 people than Italy does, and look at how well that worked out for Italy.
If your shelves are empty, you chose a poor place to live.
Maybe enough people will ignore it that the WuFlu will continue to spread — and her immunity will begin to develop?
Since this is unlikely, I’m not going to worry about it.
Just watching the news, I think the states are doing this one by one on their own.
The ones in my local stores restocked partially. They had cleaned out the entire milk supply by Saturday; restocked as of Sunday and looking normal there. More trucks are coming to restock too; so far a non-issue other than panicked or perhaps greedy hoarders.
Democrats have already advocated going around spreading the virus in Republican offices and rallies.
A federal quarantine would interfere with their freedom to expression their political thoughts.
Keep in mind that the bearing of breasts has been classified as political speech in the past, as has other behavior that has nothing to do with the utterance of words.
Impossible to enforce
That would be the reason. We’ve been slowly working to that point. Would not be surprised if it happened this week sometime.
US Wide?
Sotomayor shoots it down.
It is like that EVERYWHERE, not a poor choice by the poster.
But it does not eliminate the virus from existence, meaning that we are all right back where we are now within a few weeks or months once again. What's the point?
They WANT people to get it to acquire immunity...but they don't want a lot of people to get it all at once and overwhelm the medical system. So I think they won't care much if it's spread around a bit by quarantine breakers.
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