I would say have drugs ready by fall.
You can bank on a second wave if the economy starts to recover.
I hope he fires whoever advised him to go along with Fauci and Co. for as long as he did. That would be a good Step One.
Doesn’t the first wave have to end for there to be a second?
What does that even mean?
If Covid flares up in the fall then there is nothing to do but ride it out. States are not going to shut down again. Any governor who did so absent another federal disaster proclamation, which there won't be one, would be ridden out of the state on a rail. They'll have no cover from Trump and no help from the federal government and definitely no support from their people.
I have doubts on the “highly transmissible” part. I have been out to MANY stores since the “pandemic” and have crossed paths with many people, yet I still haven’t gotten the bug. I think that someone would have to cough or sneeze directly into your face for you to catch it. Casual contact by just walking by an infected person WILL NOT infect you.
There will be no closures after the November election.
If Trump wins, he’ll keep everything open and laugh at the press because whatever they say, it will no longer matter.
If Biden wins, everything will stay open because the Dems know damned well that the reason for closing was never to flatten the curve, but rather wreck the economy and hope that Trump would get the blame.
Unless a vaccine is found, just as we have a Flu season every year, there may be a COVID-19 season each year. We are we supposed to do? Shut down the country every year during COVID season?
He is talking about Fauci here, right?
He’s going to have to open the country first in order to not re-close it.
And that’s going to require smacking governors like Whitmer, Wolf, Pritzker and Murphy upside the head.
People will literally take to arms if the Governors try to lock us down this fall. I would not want to be an enforcer in that case.
I would bet my small nothing that was their plan. They would cause a second wave and destroy the nation. THAT was their plan. I’d bet on it IF I were a betting man.
If there’s a hotspot or two like what we saw in New York City and New Orleans, lock it down but no more than 14 days. This does not apply to 99% of the country where people are socially distancing at their homes anyway so it won’t be like what we saw in those cities I mentioned and in Italy.
I predict the President will be making a lot of statements like this over the next several weeks.
He will begin calling it the “Democrat shutdown” and be a strong advocate for ending it. He will tout Republican run states as being better off for having opened up sooner, and Democrat run states worse off for having stayed shuttered.
The Democrats will try to pivot, and pin this economic shutdown on the Trump administration - which would be a political disaster for him and other Republicans.
Fortunately, President Trump’s political instincts are impeccable, so I expect he is about to make his move and beat them to the punch.
Needs to create a task force to:
* stockpile as much PPE as is physically possible
* develop a clear/simple to read (preferably using single syllable words only) set of instructions of how to handle the elderly and pass this list along to all Democrat governors
* disseminate copies of the Constitution to all governors, judges and law enforcement officers
* Identify potential hotspots (these will likely be found in Blue states) and develop quarantine plans for these states - no in or out (If you want out, you’d better leave now—but you may only do so by signing a waver indicating that you will agree to vote Republican or not vote at all unless you live in Utah, in which case you MUST vote against whoever is running against Mitt Romney)
Apparently the vast majority of Americans like the government to tell them what to do?
As well as spending massive amounts of tax payers money on the latest crisis dejour.
We’ll see if they prefer a life long politician, who actually has done nothing of note in his half a century in public office, for President.
Compared to a Trump..who has actually done things...and until this virus non-sense had America running like a well tuned clock.
Yes Mr. Fauci this virus is in 200 countries and it’s not going to disappear anytime soon
That makes it quite unlike SARS Cov -1. in 2003 which did disappear
completely. As did EBOLA ; WEST NILE ; And others
Then there’s measles and all the other ones
The bottom line is : combat all viruses and bacteria using your best methodologies! Hint. Ag+. Zn.
Whatever the heck that means. The important thing is that Trump isn't going to declare another emergency and the states won't be shutting down. Those that did would have their governors drawn and quartered.