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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: Cronos

Draconian measures will be incoming here.

They asked us to stay in for 15 days, many of us did, and many of us did not.

I think they are about to be done asking us.


221 posted on 03/20/2020 6:03:00 AM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing "Coronaphobia", I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: bitt
Since normal Flu kills so many more than Corona, will we start reacting like this every Flu season? I doubt it.
So the question remains. Why are we reacting this way to Corona?

The press started this panic and quickly lost control. The Dems followed sensing a chance to attack Trump and it has now gained a momentum all its own.

Hopefully when this is all over someone will expose the silliness

222 posted on 03/20/2020 6:12:01 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: Patriot Babe

I think current law = that Fed. legislators are NOT subject to the insider trading law.

That’s one reason they and the lobbyists are joined at the hip. They get inside info and can then support legislation to help XYZ corp. and build their own wealth.

Just think of how many House and Senate members become multi-millionaires after only a couple of terms....


223 posted on 03/20/2020 6:12:03 AM PDT by octex
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To: bitt

Way too late for stocks.


224 posted on 03/20/2020 6:19:47 AM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: Pelham

Thanks, that makes sense. I wasn’t sure why the response to this was so extreme when other diseases were far more lethal.


225 posted on 03/20/2020 6:31:06 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: lodi90
Yep. Hello Dow at 15,000.

I think it will bottom much lower than that...around 8,000-10,000.

226 posted on 03/20/2020 7:17:06 AM PDT by damper99
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Washington Times and Epoch Times are much better


227 posted on 03/20/2020 7:58:04 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: octex

We need to break the back of corruption in office just like the corona virus and understand that public servant means what it says.

Every Congress person should need to disclose all assets when coming into their elected office, and then every subsequent year just like a special income tax. Fraud would result in 2 years imprisonment for every year in office. They need to be subject to random forensic asset deep dives.


228 posted on 03/20/2020 11:10:34 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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To: apoliticalone

Sorry posted above in wrong thread. Please disregard.


229 posted on 03/20/2020 11:11:44 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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To: chris37

SARS-1 erupted in November 2002, peaked around May and went away by July 2003.

Covid is really SARS-2, 86% the same virus. It’s not as lethal but it’s 10 times as infectious. If infections peak in May this pandemic could be over by July.


230 posted on 03/20/2020 12:01:44 PM PDT by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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To: Pelham

The infectious nature of this thing is absolutely terrifying.


231 posted on 03/20/2020 12:14:42 PM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing "Coronaphobia", I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: lodi90
I believe it. A full shut down makes it easier to justify the trillions in bailouts now being crafted by lobbyists and swampers in DC. They are way ahead of us little folks on Main Street.

If they force folks to stay in their homes, then what are they supposed to do with the $1,200 checks they plan to send out ? Put mayo on them and eat them ?

232 posted on 03/20/2020 12:18:31 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: chris37

The rate of infection is the reason for all the panic by authorities.

Covid is not more lethal than SARS-1 and some flus, but what it can do is make a huge number of people very sick all at once. That makes healthcare systems collapse and people who otherwise could be saved will die.

This experience will have brought some benefit if we return drug and medical manufacturing back to the US; having became reliant on China for all of that is dangerously stupid if not criminal.


233 posted on 03/20/2020 12:37:08 PM PDT by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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To: Pelham

July of next year...


234 posted on 03/20/2020 12:50:21 PM PDT by EBH (DNC=Party NON GRATA)
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To: eyedigress

They blame the US Army because it’s easier than accepting the blame themselves.


235 posted on 03/20/2020 1:17:23 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

The entire world is on their butt.

They never allowed investigation.


236 posted on 03/20/2020 2:08:48 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: magna carta
Is a lumber & commercial supply company critical? Like serving NASA hospitals colleges with material...Governor Wolf of PA doesn't think so, at least as far as lumber...

https://6abc.com/health/gov-wolf-orders-1000s-of-businesses-to-shut-down-over-virus/6031024/

https://dig.abclocal.go.com/wpvi/pdf/20200319-Life-Sustaining-Business.pdf

[scroll down to page 3 of the PDF for your answers where Pennsylvania is concerned, though I don't know about your state, magna carta]

ff

237 posted on 03/20/2020 6:18:08 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree

Yes it seems PA went overkill. In Harris County TX (Houston & outlying areas) my husband found out his co. would be considered “essential” good news if they can’t seem to get the trials going fast enough for the already known cure


238 posted on 03/20/2020 7:28:26 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: bitt

I guess this fake news tool is a mind reader. He knows what the President “is seriously considering”.

Journalism is dead.


239 posted on 03/22/2020 6:56:26 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: usconservative
Time for some Claim Chowder.

Re: 81:

I've heard from three separate military friends who do not know each other that the EO for national lockdown is coming on Sunday

If you're not prepared by now, you better get yourself ready for a 30 day lockdown in a hurry.

It's comiing.

So, more than a month after you write that, and....

No national lockdown.

And three separate military friends? and they all got it wrong?

You're getting called out for this bogus prediction and fear mongering that you tried to make more authoritative by adding the "three operate military friends".

I'll offer my take. Either you made it up.

Or your military friends are so down the chain of command that they don' know squat and they made it up and fed it to you.

Pathetic.

240 posted on 04/23/2020 8:05:58 AM PDT by Fury
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