Posted on 04/03/2020 4:35:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Monday that there is a way to open parts of the country during the coronavirus shutdown that is safe and could help the economy.
“You start somewhere that’s strong and then gradually grow it out,” Gingrich told “Fox & Friends.”
Gingrich said that there is a “very strong” hospital system and “relatively low” number of infected people in North and South Dakota.
“You could focus on really tracking down just the people who currently have the disease, isolating them and the rest of the Dakota economy could start back up.” Gingrich noted Utah’s “remarkable” health system to strategize in a similar fashion. Gingrich said that the strict lockdown in New York City isn’t necessary for other parts of the state, such as its upstate region “where there are some counties that have nobody who is infected.”
Gingrich went on to say, “We’re a big country, we need to gradually reopen the country and I think we can do that by growing from the healthiest places back towards the places that are sickest.”
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Sure a different tone than he had when he was in a frenzy a few weeks ago
But, I’ll take it
This is ridiculous
It’s insulting that these “specialists” treat us dumb sheep they can just fence in.
gingrich at least has some brains.
that’s always the approach that should have been taken. close the national borders. isolate the hot counties. monitor the cold counties.
work from the county level up.
PhD in history too.
Pure common sense.
Yeah, and then all the New Yorkers would be doing cross country drives to North Dakota. You’d have to line the borders with cops and military.
Exactly - and don’t shut down the country!
Encourage young people to not interact with seniors.
Let everyone else go about their business and build up national immunity.
You can understand these “expert” bureaucrats simply by remembering that the only way a bureaucrat can get into trouble is by saying, “Yes.”
Good thinking.
I saw three cars with NY plates when I went to Costco today. I think I’ve seen NY plates maybe twice in my life up here
Nobody shooting out their tires at the border?
‘It’s insulting that these “specialists” treat us dumb sheep they can just fence in.’
they treat us like dumb sheep because many of us are exactly that...
Not yet...
“Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Monday that there is a way to open parts of the country”
Trump & Company must be studying our smashed-down economy day by day. I trust them to not permit long term damage, but we the public aren’t making noise about economic damage (present or future) to our lives.
Is that because we are so scared of dying that mass unemployment, mass going broke, etc., have become acceptable sacrifices?
I’m one that agrees with Newt.
Get this ship back in the action!!
I’m wondering if the left... the dems... those who want the control... are keeping score on just how much we will put up with... how much inconvenience... how much can they crack down on the country’s citizens before we complain.. before we get upset.. before we take to the streets.. before we.....
I do not trust those who speak every day on this virus... except the Pres and the V Pres.... if anyone has an agenda, they are using it to the hilt... we didn’t know how deep and wide the swamp was.. how do we know what they that have us in the house for another couple of months... have as an agenda... and they can dump the long captivity... there is no way they can do that with a free society...
Look up their politics... dems... and today, anyone who is still a democrat, is like the leaders or they’d leave...
Unless there is a vaccine or enough time for Herd Immunity to be developed, just opening up areas will just defer the issue to later.
And that may be a good thing.
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