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Trump eyes grounding jets, halting stock trading, and ordering shelter in place
washington examiner ^ | 3/19/2020 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 03/19/2020 6:31:11 PM PDT by bitt

The Trump administration, moving quickly to halt the spread of the coronavirus, is seriously considering grounding all passenger air traffic for up to 30 days, temporarily halting stock trading on Wall Street, and imposing a shelter-in-place rule, according to officials.

Key officials have begun alerting industry leaders, Capitol Hill, and agencies that the “radical” plan could come early next week if the warlike efforts to stop the spread of the virus fail.

On Thursday, the administration began to prepare the nation for 9/11-style moves when the State Department issued a “Level Four” warning against traveling overseas. The warning is the most severe that the department has.

In a notice, the State Department said Americans traveling abroad may find their travel “severely disrupted” and “may be forced to remain outside of the United States for an indefinite time frame.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; fakenews; kungflu; moogoogaipandemic; trump; wuhansarscov2; wuhanvirus
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To: Mr Rogers

Amen!!


121 posted on 03/19/2020 7:41:59 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists my curseoint fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: usconservative
Still, getting three calls, all independent of each other saying the same thing? Hard to ignore that.

It does seem odd that few (any?) other media seem to have picked up on this story.

I'm not talking the Washington Examiner story. I'm talking *multiple* "unnamed sources".

There are several in the media that hate President Trump - pretty obvious after the news conferences today.

Do you think it's plausible that what your friends have told you has not been leaked to the media that dislike President Trump?

And that they (media) have said... nothing?

122 posted on 03/19/2020 7:42:38 PM PDT by Fury
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To: bitt

God, I hope & pray that this is FAKE NEWS. Of course, the “It’s Another Spanish Flu Level Event” crowd will REVEL in the resulting destruction of our country and its economy.

PLEASE PRESIDENT TRUMP, DON’T FALL FOR IT.


123 posted on 03/19/2020 7:42:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (No, it is NOT THE FLU but it sure as hell is NOT THE SPANISH FLU or BLACK DEATH. No Panic!)
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To: eyedigress; All

John Solomon reports...

Breaking; State Department tells Americans abroad to come home or prepare to shelter in place

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1240667202812022785


124 posted on 03/19/2020 7:42:52 PM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Mr Rogers

Hurts to see that our government’s plan is to tell us to run and hide like little girls.

And that’s an insult to little girls.


125 posted on 03/19/2020 7:42:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists my curseoint fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: BuckeyeGOP

The folks on the family farm in flyover country will be just fine.

Fruit cellars full of canned goods, steers in the pasture, hogs in the pens and hens + roosters in the chicken house. All that plus a 50# sack of flour and all is well for them.


126 posted on 03/19/2020 7:44:20 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: dp0622

You know good and damn well the global community is looking to fix this ASAP.


127 posted on 03/19/2020 7:44:41 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: FlipWilson

Meanwhile, the Dems are busy creating a PAC to attack the President’s response.
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That’s EXACTLY what’s happening,


128 posted on 03/19/2020 7:45:29 PM PDT by House Atreides (No, it is NOT THE FLU but it sure as hell is NOT THE SPANISH FLU or BLACK DEATH. No Panic!)
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To: Faith65

True statement.

Border will close.


129 posted on 03/19/2020 7:45:39 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: tomkat

This is what results from having “experts” set public policy. Completely expected .... they see and care only about what they are “expert” in and completely ignore the resulting consequences from their dictates; that is, they have no, none, zip, zero, nada “larger perspective”. That’s why they are called “experts” in their limited field (viewpoint).


130 posted on 03/19/2020 7:46:07 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: eyedigress
They have Biden, you might want to rethink that.

I don't think it will matter. People will blame President Trump for their financial losses if there is nationwide SIP. Just like Newsom (sp?) will be blamed for California.

We shall see.

131 posted on 03/19/2020 7:46:15 PM PDT by Fury
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To: entropy12

Right now it’s approaching EMP level of effectiveness in terms of instantly shutting down many, many things.

What happens if everyone gets sick and this viral crap is all over everything?

I don’t have idea. This is a game changer here.


132 posted on 03/19/2020 7:47:53 PM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing "Coronaphobia", I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: Fury

They are not trying to win.


133 posted on 03/19/2020 7:47:55 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Paladin2

I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you.

Let’s not count chickens before they hatch. It looks promising for treatment but it is not a vaccine.

I don’t know what this is: US TLA


134 posted on 03/19/2020 7:48:28 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Fury

I think its accurate and I’m responding appropriately.


136 posted on 03/19/2020 7:49:30 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: BusterDog

“ What will be the result of letting the virus just run its course, like a seasonal flu ?”

4,000,000 US deaths. Look it up on your phone.


At the death rate of .014?

285,714,285 would have to get the wu flu.

The current population of the United States of America is 330,451,770 as of Thursday, March 19, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/

The story of the Diamond Princess cruise ship indicates that only about 20% will get infected, so five times the infected would mean a population of one billion?


137 posted on 03/19/2020 7:50:22 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: usconservative

It’s really going to be fun when everyone’s cell service goes down.


138 posted on 03/19/2020 7:51:56 PM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
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To: Swanks
I saw that. If true, it really flunks the smell test for Burr. Come to think of it, haven’t heard anything from him for a couple years. WTF?
139 posted on 03/19/2020 7:52:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered tha)
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To: FlipWilson

Who are those that are trading for the very thing old Ben said? Girls gone wild next week.


140 posted on 03/19/2020 7:52:27 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic)
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