Posted on 03/20/2020 3:27:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Momentum appears to be building for a national shutdown to confront the coronavirus crisis, raising the prospect that President Trump could issue an order requiring people to stay at home.
Such an order would be unprecedented in American history, but some of Trump's top advisors have said publicly they would be open to it. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday he had raised the prospect of such a dramatic step with the administration.
I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting, Fauci said Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press. I think Americans should be prepared that they're going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.
More and more states and cities on Friday were taking drastic steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which has infected more than 14,000 Americans.
Even some who have been outspoken critics of the Trump administration say faster action must be taken to avoid a catastrophe on the level that Italy faces today.
We are 2 weeks behind Italy, Ezekiel Emanuel, a former top Obama administration official now at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, said Friday on MSNBC. I am a little curious why the task force and the president have not made this a mandate nationwide. Not the lockdown but a mandate for all the states and to close restaurants and do the other things. It seems to me they are being slow on this.
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Blessed news indeed!!!!
From your lips to Gds ears please
I think so too!
It shameful that the media are not bringing forward the MANY people who have recovered to calm the masses, right now every damn person thinks they are going to die AND everyday these damn Lib governors take the panic just one step further creating more and more fear in the masses!! CA. had 900 cases yesterday, population 40 million YET it was necessary to shut the ENTIRE state down!! When these asshat do things like this people FREAK OUT!! Our grocery stores have not been able to recover because EVERY DAMN DAY these Libs implement some NEW draconian measure!!
If it was finished, China would have a vaccine.
Hold on for a tick: China, they are getting very few new cases, by their own reports, right?
Hmmm.
Well, there's a "CDC" in every state.....I seriously doubt all of them would get together and "get their stories straight" and then lie to us.
Wait...I may be late to thread...trying to catch up. Wing recipe please? Asking for a friend :)
He will. And they will - Democrats love authoritarian scenarios and the media pressure to prove they care will be too much for the RINOs.
I hope that you are correct. It would be wonderful if churches are full on Easter Sunday.
Well said.
I watched a little of the press conference today. What I found interesting was there was a women speaking at the podium I do no know who she was but I noticed as she talked she was holding on to both sides of the top of the podium.
The woman leaves the podium and then Dr. Fauci came up to the podium and had his hands placed in the exact area and position as the woman had her hands placed. I just thought it was weird.
Seems like you wouldn’t want to be touching up surfaces like that. I turned it off but I imagine every speaker had their hands all over the top of that podium. I also noticed they were not six feet apart from each other.
I saw that statistic for the U.S.
Yesterday 57 people died from COVID-19 in the U.S..
Today it was 49.
Have we turned the corner??
TBD.
Coffee.
Solving this will almost guarantee his reelection.
CC
Sure hope so. It’s depressing driving around at 9 PM on a Friday night and seeing a ghost town. Very eerie.
Praying you're right. We're all tired of this...
Poll Trump approval on the virus.....high!!! 55-43.
Democrats are praying (to Baal) that thousands die and millions lose their jobs, anything to hurt Trump.
Thanks for the correction.
5.56mm
Fauci is a hidden enemy. He calls for cowardice when the president should show extraordinary courage.
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