Personally, I think Trump is getting bad advice going to India in the middle of this mess.
But no, this trip has been scheduled for a while. The outbreak of the virus into an open-media world of So Korea is what is tripping this wire right now.
The European elite are very worried about Italy. Not because they care about Italians, but because the "right wing" backlash is already building.
Incredibly, India is just reporting 3 cases.
Hard to believe, given India’s proximity to the center of the viral storm.
Still no deaths in the USA, and at least half of our 35 cases are related to Asian cruise ships.
The death rate in China is slowly moving up - it’s above 3% now, which is the highest I recall seeing.
In the 1918 flu epidemic, in the USA, our death rate was only 2.5%.
However, our infection rate in 1918 was quite frightening - 30%.
Maybe, but it is a very short trip. 36 hours. He'll be on his way home tomorrow afternoon.
But yeah, he needs to address the issue. Despite all the frantic worry, he could go stabilize things and keep people confident with a initiating a plan on how we'll manage not just the medical side, but the supply side.
Maybe regulation relief for quick startups of vital items?
Turn some tariff money into subsidies?
This pandemic could be Trump's Hurricane Karina (as pushed by the MSM).