Posted on 04/16/2020 5:35:30 PM PDT by beejaa
President Donald Trump's plan to reopen the American economy after a near-total shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic consists of three graduated phases, according to a copy of the proposed actions obtained by ABC News...
"Phase one" calls on employers to telework where possible, return to work in phases, minimize non-essential travel and make accommodations for the vulnerable populations within the workforce. It calls on all vulnerable individuals to "shelter in place," and when in public, all individuals should continue social distancing. Large venues, including churches and gyms, can open if they operate under “strict” social distancing and sanitation protocols. Bars should remain closed. Elective surgeries can resume.
However, a critical piece to this is the "gating criteria" that all states and regions should achieve before they can move on to phase one. This includes a "downward trajectory" of reported "influenza-like illnesses," "covid-like syndromic cases" and "documented cases" or "positive tests as a percent of total tests" within a 14-day period, as well as the ability for hospitals to "treat all patients without crisis care" and have a "robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers, including emerging antibody testing."
In "phase two," non-essential travel for employers can resume. Schools and organized youth activity can reopen. Bars can operate with diminished standing room occupancy. Large venues can continue under “moderate” social distancing protocols.
The third phase says all these venues -- bars, gyms and large venues -- can reopen with “limited” social distancing and “standard” sanitation. Employers can resume “unrestricted staffing of worksites,” so employees can physically return to work. The final phase also reintroduces visits to senior care facilities and hospitals.
The president described the guidelines "as a bit of a negotiation," a source said.
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IMHO too slow, timid and tentative to save the economy. Too much deference to the wonks. Birx’ presentation was a confusing fustercluck.
I thought it was a pretty good plan.
Wearing face coverings was included, but would have liked to seen that emphasized more. Probably will be when the governors announce.
Not sure how many states qualify for phase 1.
How is a 14 day decline defined?
Birx presentation well done. I did not under stand how we move thru the phases
I think that once some of the wraps come off others will rapidly follow with or without the governors approval.
You know it’s time to open up with the protests starting.
Thank you.
A good well thought-out plan that balances risk vs benefit and is driven by data, not emotion or ideology.
I believe most states will NEVER get to Phase 2, where churches and businesses are re-opened. Wyoming and Idaho probably will, perhaps the Dakotas and maybe Nebraska. My own Alabama won't reach Phase 2 before late summer or fall, just before the infections start up again and Governor Kay "MeMaw" Ivey shuts down church and sportsball once again.
The economy as we have known it is gone. The ill-named "CARES" act ensures that minimum-wage workers can get more money from unemployment than a job. Most businesses cannot operate without low-wage workers.
Lockdown is the new normal in America, until we either get sick of it and overturn the government, or we accept it like good little communist proles.
God help us, because the government won't.
Trump is cleverly pitting the Democratic governors against letting the people be free! Let it play out !!! People are ready for regular life ! Libs also !
You are right. People are fed up. Even those who know little or nothing of the Constitution intrinsically know that this all was bad and a usurpation of said Constitutional rights. In short, it was overreach and overkill.
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