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Trump eyes grounding jets, halting stock trading, and ordering shelter in place
washington examiner ^ | 3/19/2020 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 03/19/2020 6:31:11 PM PDT by bitt

The Trump administration, moving quickly to halt the spread of the coronavirus, is seriously considering grounding all passenger air traffic for up to 30 days, temporarily halting stock trading on Wall Street, and imposing a shelter-in-place rule, according to officials.

Key officials have begun alerting industry leaders, Capitol Hill, and agencies that the “radical” plan could come early next week if the warlike efforts to stop the spread of the virus fail.

On Thursday, the administration began to prepare the nation for 9/11-style moves when the State Department issued a “Level Four” warning against traveling overseas. The warning is the most severe that the department has.

In a notice, the State Department said Americans traveling abroad may find their travel “severely disrupted” and “may be forced to remain outside of the United States for an indefinite time frame.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; fakenews; kungflu; moogoogaipandemic; trump; wuhansarscov2; wuhanvirus
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To: Swanks

Yep.

FR had a running thread in January on this. I was very active with it.

He knew it was coming, many of us suspected it.

Everyone else could have cared less.


41 posted on 03/19/2020 6:53:58 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: desertfreedom765

Knowing that Burr knew then the others also have to know also and did nothing but too profit from our misery. They should pay everything back.


42 posted on 03/19/2020 6:54:13 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: bitt
Shutting down the stock market is nuts.

Disciplining the short sellers would be a good idea.

As for shutting it down, remember that there are probably millions of people retired who have their life savings invested and who rely on income from them.

If forced to sell a big chunk in order to have money to carry them over a shut down, they will be forced to sell in a depressed market.

Under the present circumstances, I am sure most opt to preserve their investment by drawing as little as possible and waiting for the market to improve, which it will when we get over this panic, for that is what it is.

43 posted on 03/19/2020 6:54:20 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: McGruff

I think before that he would isolate New York and California


44 posted on 03/19/2020 6:54:24 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: lightman

Day-Twah became a hot spot today.


45 posted on 03/19/2020 6:54:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: eyedigress

“It is fake news.”

You are going to see a national shut down starting Monday in every state.

You read it here first.


46 posted on 03/19/2020 6:54:44 PM PDT by setter
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To: bitt

I am in Thailand now. I never thought it would get so crazy this fast. I am cutting my trip short. It is Friday 03/20/20 at about 9:00am here now. The earliest flight I could get back is Sunday 03/22/20 morning.
I do remember that I had just stocked up on TP before leaving on my trip but that’s about the only good news so far.


47 posted on 03/19/2020 6:55:03 PM PDT by sageburn
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To: McGruff

“I find this hard to believe.”

Me too. I don’t know much about the Washington Examiner, but they didn’t name their sources, and if it’s true, why would “officials” leak it? Doesn’t seem like a good idea to do it with at least one more day of trading still scheduled to happen.


48 posted on 03/19/2020 6:55:05 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: CodeToad

Your voting for Biden, why does his action bother you?


49 posted on 03/19/2020 6:55:55 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: chris37

“...There should be no doubt that this is a bio-weapon we are dealing with. This didn’t happen because some dude ate a bowl of bat soup....”
Agree. So the next question who’s all behind it?
As giddy & happy as the monica media and the communist RATs are, they are definitely suspect. China wants Trump gone as well. The globalists want Trump gone and a population reduction. There is likely collusion among these rotten bassturds. This was well-thought out and planned. Has any high-level prominent RAT politician been diagnosed with it? IF not, why not? Was there an antidote given to them? Inquiring minds want to know. Those involved with this thing need to be brought to justice for the social, economic and physical misery they’ve foisted upon the world....someway, somehow. Just like the Nuremberg trials after WWII, we need the Coronavirus trials after this thing burns out.


50 posted on 03/19/2020 6:56:25 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: eyedigress

I do agree, but like others have said. “It will get very bumpy before everything correct itself”.


51 posted on 03/19/2020 6:56:46 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: chris37

My personal theory is that a worker at the Wuhan bio lab wanted to make a couple of extra yuan, and sold a soon-to-be retired bat that was used for testing to a nearby market.


52 posted on 03/19/2020 6:57:18 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: eyedigress

Think about why Biden. This sh*tshow is going down hill with no reversal. Some of us would rather no be too old when it happens. Vote in the democraps and less rumble.


53 posted on 03/19/2020 6:57:45 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: cherry

Welcome to the club!
But continue to pay dues nonetheless. ;-)


54 posted on 03/19/2020 6:59:13 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Unconstitutional "Law" is void from inception.....)
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To: CodeToad

Vote in the socialists and the “New World Order” and it all goes away, Right?


55 posted on 03/19/2020 7:00:57 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: bitt

#BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a state-wide order to shelter in place:

“That directive goes into force and effect this evening and we are confident that the people of the state of California will abide by it.”


56 posted on 03/19/2020 7:00:59 PM PDT by McGruff (It came from China)
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To: grobdriver

You mean John dimon and other investment banker crooks?


57 posted on 03/19/2020 7:01:08 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: bitt

I call BS. If the President would order all these things, he would not tell all those people in advance. That would just make these actions less effective and cause a lot more pain and problems than announcing them without warning. In addition it’s been discussed in a lot of places that the president does not have the power to declare a national “shelter in place” for a health issue - it’s a state power. Finally, if “key officials have begun alerting industry leaders, Capitol Hill, and agencies” wouldn’t we be hearing about this from a lot more sources than just this one.


58 posted on 03/19/2020 7:01:13 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: Captain Peter Blood

It’s pitchfork time folks


59 posted on 03/19/2020 7:02:03 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Remember mad cow and england killing millions of cows for no reason? People are such Nancy boys when it comes to outbreaks


60 posted on 03/19/2020 7:02:15 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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