Time to reopen America.
Democrats and the media are prepared to blame him for opening up too soon, and not opening up soon enough, both at the same time.
They are already doing it with his move to close down. Too soon and not soon enough.
LOL! Government officials at all levels will congratulate each other for mitigating the threat. Awards for everyone!
President Trump did as appropriate with the information at hand. Second guessing and constantly comparing to the flu is undermining him. The real questions are (1) Will they be honest about the origin of the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus, (2) Will they make China pay, and (4) Will they make sure that no visa workers get jobs back or new until all Americans are rehired or hired, and (5) How will they ensure that companies do not take the restart as an opportunity to shed their older workers.
My informal survey of a cross section of Americans tells me the blame will fall on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
He has admitted being the one who talked Trump into the shutdown with the bogus hockey stick graph showing 2.2 million deaths.
He is the very embodiment of the smarmy Swamp bureaucrat that people beyond the beltway hate and which caused them to elect Trump.
He has a tendency to deliver finger-wagging lectures.
He has generally come across as two-faced and unlikeable in many other ways.
Early on Drs. Fauchi and Birx have said that if the shutdown and isolation were successful, the result would be that it would appear to have been an overreaction.
I'll search for quotes and if I find any I'll post them below.
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“The way you get ahead of it is that, as I try to explain to people, that I want people to assume that ... we are overreacting because if it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably doing the right thing,” he added.
President Trump, he’s the boss
But just because millions of people didn’t die, doesn’t mean it was a over reaction, in fact it could just be that what President Trump did saved millions of lives and kept our hospital system and economy as well from total collapse.
This is a situation where choice A or Choice B were both bad choices. Choice A, let this thing run its course would have caused millions of deaths, would have shut down our hospital system and would have eventually killed the economy anyways. Even with the economy killed off that way, it could take years before people start to trust one another again, causing the economic pain to linger for a long time. Plus we would have a deadly virus running wild everywhere. Choice B was mitigation, social distances closing of events, venues, etc that gather people, wash your hands, wear face masks, hydrochlorquine, etc all of this saved lives, kept out hospitals running, but we shut down the economy to do this, however, the economy could possibly be brought back online quicker.
Both choices would have killed the economy, I believe what President Trump did, was the right choice in the long run.
Once you look at this as realist, you realize that doing nothing would have been more deadly to the economy then mitigation.
The usual suspects will throw all kinds of blame at Trump. It’s what they do and they’re simply incapable of doing anything else.
I think reasonable people will look at it and understand it was unknowable at the time.
In these situations I fall back on that paragon of deep thought Plan 9: “Can you prove it didn’t happen”.
China. China. China.
“Who Will Get Blamed If Coronavirus Shutdown Turns Out To Be A Massive Overreaction?”
After rightfully blaming the communists in China?
Start by blaming media across the political spectrum that were hyping the hell out of this back in Jan and Feb.
Orange Man Bad.
Overreacting to Virus is Bad.
Orange Man to Blame.
Damn…I could be a journalist.
B. Trump
C. Trump
D. All of the above
If Trump cured cancer the effing press would report Trump was putting doctors out of work.
You can say overreaction but it will be doubtful to call it massive.
In the NYC-NJ area, many thousands are dying. The numbers are not small and the strain is real on the local hospitals with some full turning people away.
If this ChiCom Virus burns out without spreading and hitting other areas hard, great. But that’s a hope at this point with warmer weather coming soon hopefully.
What do you mean Turns Out ? The Mask wearers are just saving up a bunch of Flues for later
HAA ha. You got busted posting a fake poll that people love a shutdown. I’m replying to you here because your link got pulled
What would the metric be?
Projected deaths, actual deaths, severity of symptoms, economic disruption, social disruption.....