Posted on 11/11/2020 4:33:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A coronavirus advisor to president elect Joe Biden believes that shutting down businesses nationally for between four to six weeks could help the United States from entering 'Covid hell'.
Dr. Michael Osterholm said Wednesday that a national lockdown may be the best way to keep hospitalizations and deaths down across the country until a vaccine can be distributed.
Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, claims that the country's economy will not suffer as a result, if enough money is borrowed to pay wages during the shutdowns.
It comes as coronavirus hospitalizations and infections hit single-day highs in the U.S., although deaths are still about half what they were in the peak in April.
On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo already began pulling back opening hours of bars and restaurants, ordering them to close at 10pm daily from this Friday as cases in the state rise.
Osterholm, however, believes that a more stringent national lockdown is needed, with uniform restrictions taken in each of the states if the rise in cases is to be combatted.
He told Yahoo News that cases are rising as more people are being forced indoors due to the cold weather, where the virus can spread more easily.
It also comes as people suffer from 'pandemic fatigue' and grow tired of wearing masks and social distancing, he suggested.
'We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that,' he said, according to CNBC.
'If we did that, then we could lockdown for four-to-six weeks.'
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Start that with “once upon a time...”.
Total BS.
Media must be running out of material. They’ve been reprinting stories from March all week long.
4-6 weeks...
40+ weeks ago they said we needed 2 weeks to stop the spread....
4-6 weeks will turn into 4-6 months and the economy will be busted up totally and china can stroll in and buy everything for a discount...
H311 NO!
Its the government’s money, so why not! (Liberal logic).
Exactly the wrong thing as expected from the guy who has been on he wrong side of everything for over 46 years.
As soon as the shutdown is over, the virus will just start spreading again. Its going to have to run its course.
The virus spreads more when we stay inside, so we are going to make you stay inside.
And if ya don’t like it, we’ll give ya another 4 to 6 weeks to think about it.
and it won’t be 4 to 6 weeks either. it will keep going and going like an energizer bunny.
What are the wages for the United States for 6 weeks?
The virus is BS! You heard it here first. It means jack. Squat. Stop getting tested. Stupid people.
Shut down the entire USA for 6 weeks and the Renmindi will be the World’s Reserve Currency.
And what on Earth were the past seven months?
Borrow from WHOM???
These people are pathologically insane.
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