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Could Trump declare national coronavirus shutdown? Momentum is rising
The Hill ^ | 03 20 2020 | Reid Wilson

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; ezekielemanuel; nationalshutdown; trump; trusttheplan; trusttrump
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To: LS

4/21 or 3/21? I’ve been saying 19-21 days seems to be peak cases which would be the 23rd-25th of March.


121 posted on 03/20/2020 5:28:37 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America)
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To: Capt. Tom

What letter of the alphabet does quarantine begin with?


122 posted on 03/20/2020 5:30:49 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: crz

I’ve heard second hand accounts on FR, and one by freepmail. One second hand account was a member who had relatives of relatives come back from China, who worked in the Wuhan lab, and that’s what he heard.

I think it is almost a sure thing the virus is a lab escapee. If our gov has hard evidence, they sure as heck aren’t going to make it public right now.


123 posted on 03/20/2020 5:32:18 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: LS

More good news.

Today, for the first time this month, fewer people died from Corona than the day before!


124 posted on 03/20/2020 5:33:24 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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To: BenLurkin
I sincerely doubt it - we would have found out by now. That isn't info that would be easy to keep secret.
125 posted on 03/20/2020 5:33:54 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither..")
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To: LS

From your lips to Gods ear. We are in mutual funds and retired and the market is kicking our butts


126 posted on 03/20/2020 5:37:40 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier
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To: grey_whiskers

I can just see them now!


127 posted on 03/20/2020 5:38:16 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier
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To: Dilbert San Diego

national defense authorization act (amendments to which were discussed here repeatedly with just how all-powerful they declared the fedgov) probably allow this and pretty much anything else. folks can argue constitutionality, but they passed the law.

i recall debating one obama-era provision that allowed the feds to mandate that you work with our without pay at a job they picked, iirc (going from memory).


128 posted on 03/20/2020 5:45:14 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Brilliant
There are some states that have very few cases. I don’t know why you’d shut down those states. Why not just restrict travel to those states?

The grandstanding Leftist mayor of Phoenix decided on her own to prematurely shut down the city, and has proceeded to buffalo every other public official in Arizona my making typical "Don't you even CARE???" arguments in the media. I expect our RINO governor to give in to the pressure any day now. Hopefully since we are shutting down somewhat prematurely we will re-open sooner than other states.

129 posted on 03/20/2020 5:47:02 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: LS
infections will turn down on 4/21, maybe sooner

I'm predicting we'll know by a week from now if we have handle on this.

130 posted on 03/20/2020 5:54:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: eyedigress

TP distributor?


131 posted on 03/20/2020 5:55:34 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: no-to-illegals
There is NO killer in airplanes. The killer is on the ground otherwise airplane would not be flying

Well, I can only assume that the ever so vigilant TSA is giving all passengers a test for the bioweapon....Denying anyone passage who so much as sneezes or sniffles.

132 posted on 03/20/2020 6:02:32 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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To: LS

And democrats are deeply concerned


133 posted on 03/20/2020 6:06:27 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: yesthatjallen

This is growing into information war. The left is pushing all of it mainstream to social. I noticed the same narrative,talking points and trolls over and over. I see America right now shaking like it may collapse.


134 posted on 03/20/2020 6:09:37 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: LS

I pray so, my FRiend.


135 posted on 03/20/2020 6:11:20 PM PDT by abb
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To: silverleaf

“If Dr Death Ezekiel Emmanuel is giving advice....run the other way”!

That’s right. He’s one evil bastard and the president had better not listen to a word from him.


136 posted on 03/20/2020 6:23:35 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Try having healthcare without a prosperous economy. You create a false dichotomy.


Exactly. All the Wu Flu addicts offer us is a parade of Alinsky strawmen and false choices. Fortunately, they’ll be getting a bill for the Wu Flu Panic of 2020 just like us, are children and their grandchildren will get for this trillion dollar debacle.


137 posted on 03/20/2020 6:30:34 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat; old curmudgeon

Trump trusts Fauci because he’s an old hand that has been on TV a lot over the years. But it’s clearly time to leash him.


138 posted on 03/20/2020 6:31:34 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: IncPen

“Martial law or a nationally mandated shutdown by Trump is a trap”.

I agree. Martial Law would be a huge mistake on many levels.

Besides, what grounds would there be for declaring Martial law?


139 posted on 03/20/2020 6:32:55 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: lodi90

It certainly is time to leash him with a chock chain Thea he can tug on when this guy starts to go off the rails!!


140 posted on 03/20/2020 6:34:35 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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