Posted on 03/31/2020 5:47:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s early and aggressive response to the coronavirus pandemic helped Ohio minimize the damage from a public health perspective. Similarly, President Trump is preparing the entire country for a rapid post-COVID economic resurgence, even while he works to provide state and local leaders the resources they need to fight the virus.
By now, even the national press is recognizing that DeWine stuck his neck out when he became one of the first governors in the country to institute bans on large public gatherings, cancel sporting events, close schools, and institute a state of emergency. Our governor demanded serious changes from Ohioans — including postponing elections — even before the Buckeye State officially recorded its first case.
The result so far has been one of the lowest per capita rates of confirmed cases in the country. Hopefully, it will mean Ohio experiences significantly less death and suffering than places that moved more slowly.
The Trump administration has worked hard from the very beginning to ensure that leaders such as DeWine have the necessary resources to implement their coronavirus strategies. In addition to signing an $8.3 billion dollar bill to fund public health efforts at the beginning of March, the President also declared a national emergency, freeing up more than $40 billion in additional funding.
While state and local leaders are responsible for managing the front-line efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus, however, the nationwide economic carnage inflicted by the measures we’re taking to save lives requires a much greater remedy than any state can provide. Only the federal government can fund initiatives such as nationwide paid leave, emergency unemployment benefits for workers who lose their jobs, and stimulus checks to make sure all Americans have support during these trying times. Only the federal government can prevent small businesses and critical American industries from going belly up over an unforeseeable, catastrophic, but temporary crisis.
Even as he marshals the vast resources of the United States government to get state officials such as Governor DeWine the resources they need to combat COVID-19, President Trump is already looking ahead to the inevitable economic fallout of this fight. As he has said, we cannot let the cure become worse than the disease. If our efforts to save lives plunge survivors into years of poverty and destitution then our efforts will have been in vain.
That’s why the President’s economic team has been working around the clock with leaders of both parties in Congress to devise an effective fiscal response while Doctors Anthony Fauci andDeborah Birx and the rest of the experts on the White House coronavirus task force focus on fighting the coronavirus.
The massive $2.2 trillion relief bill is a bold and necessary response to the storm of economic uncertainty that has already left more than three million Americans jobless. Once the legislation takes effect, these workers will receive an additional $600 per week in unemployment benefits — along with a four-month eligibility extension — to ensure they can maintain themselves and their families during this period of crisis.
Unemployment isn’t the only hardship the coronavirus is causing, though, which is why most Americans will also receive substantial payments in the very near future. Individuals making less than $75,000 will get $1,200, and since parents qualify for an extra $500 per child, a married couple with two children will receive a total of $3,400. President Trump and his team understand that Americans must have both the ability and the confidence to re-engage in the economy once the danger has passed.
Industries that are especially impacted by coronavirus-related shutdowns — such as aerospace, airlines, and hospitality — will also need direct government support in order to survive weeks or months without revenue. It would be foolhardy, as well as cruel, to allow a virus that originated in China to destroy America’s economic potential and permanently destroy millions of American jobs.
Just as Governor DeWine took aggressive, forward-looking steps to protect public health in Ohio, President Trump is doing the same thing for the nation’s economy while simultaneously ensuring that effective local officials like DeWine are getting adequate federal support for their efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Which is why we need massive surplus of ppe for personal use so everyone can get back to work in 2-4 weeks.
Hotels and motels needing income should be able by state and local law to sell off rooms for affordable housing.
Any person on the job interacting with another person should being wearing a mask at this point.
I heated a cloth rag and underwear elastic to 175 degrees in my oven without obvious damage to either. That temperature should be high enough to disable the virus. People might place their used masks on metal trays and bake them for their personal reuse.
Companies might make snap-together plastic frames so ordinary people can easily make their own masks.
A cottage cheese container fits my face fairly well, but is very uncomfortable. Minor molding changes would be needed for comfort. A hole in the bottom could be partially cut out and cloth glued in place.
Eyeglasses can close the bridge of the nose gaps of homemade cloth masks, making them far more effective.
Gowns
Dry cleaning dress and suit bags might be useful for gown usage.
Gloves
Disposable gloves that my natural food store provides for bulk food buyer use might be useful.
None of that is going to happen.
We can’t even get our idiot population to follow the guidelines that are there now. And there are not enough materials to supply that sort of gear to hundreds of millions.
Herd immunity is coming, whether Anthony Fauci likes it or not.
Or get tax credits for giving truckers free rooms.
Yeah, and that probably wouldn’t begin to pay for the damage done to them. People needing housing are not going to be thankful, they will trash them in a heartbeat.
“Herd immunity is coming, whether Anthony Fauci likes it or not.”
Immunity is when our body’s soldiers know how to kill the enemy. Our body’s soldiers are trained by an invasion of the enemy.
The vaccines are fake invasions — dead enemy bodies but our soldiers don’t know they’re dead.
Thus, the solution to our epidemic is for our soldiers to fight the enemy whether fake or not.
Truckers have cabs they sleep in, and the fuel stations that service truckers, have showers for them to use.
Hotel rooms at $200,000 each in San Francisco would get snapped up.
Yeah, I can see a lot of people renting those at that price. /sarcasm
Austria now requires grocery store shoppers wear masks.
Grocery store shoppers should also have to wash their hands before grabbing a soaped down shopping cart.
“idiot population”
NHS nurses are told to not wear their uniforms in public to avoid getting attacked.(Belfast Telegraph)
Doctors in India are getting evicted.(Guardian)
“rent”
I suggested selling off hotel/motel rooms.
The result so far has been one of the lowest per capita rates of confirmed cases in the country.
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There are about 15 states with per capita rates lower than Ohio. Did their governors order immediate lockdowns?
Texas has a per capita rate that’s about half of Ohio’s. Did Texas order an immediate lockdown?
My state, Alabama, has a per capita rate that’s similar to Ohio’s and fewer deaths per capita. I don’t think Alabama was particularly quick or thorough in locking down. Pretty sure the media hasn’t praised our governor like apparently they’ve been praising DeWine.
Cases per capita by state:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/
> So whenever the social distancing stuff ends...the whole thing will start over again.
True, but the hope is that delaying some (many) cases will buy some time to work out supplies of protective, treatment, and inoculation.
Focused city-scale or small regional temporary quarantines would have been a far superior method. Instead, Trump listened to drama queens, is destroying the USA economy, expanded the nanny-state, and pissed away 2.2 trillion dollars.
Bad decision all around.
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