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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I think the government should confiscate all yachts to keep people from bringing more disease-ridden people into the country.
LOL!
Stay home. Clean your weapons.
“Going to become i n t e r e s t I n g fast.”
Yup. Love the smell of Hoppe’s No. 9...
Two things that are bugging me today. 1) By far. Where’s the malaria medicine?
And 2 a) if this deadly virus can kill us at places of business or, attending sporting events or, even going to Disney Land.
Then why can’t i get the virus shopping at a grocery store. or going to the doctors ordering take out food?
2b) Why don’t i see people scrubbing everything down with bleach everyday i go to these places? There is a killer in are midst!
My favorite is Youth Dew
If it was intentional I expect nothing less than the
complete decapitation of the Red Chinese regime
and its brigand economy.
I didn’t escape the WTC scene to live years on terrorized
and economically diminished by rogue regimes of the world
Nobody should listen to Zeke on anything involving the health of older Americans!
We can still fly on an airplane and breath the same air as all the other passengers .....
I have speculated on that in some threads.
I understand not wanting to overwhelm the hospitals, but some are overwhelmed during he regular flu season anyway.
It is the seemingly over-reaction of worldwide countries that is puzzling- Tom
There is a killer in OUR midst!
There is NO killer in airplanes. The killer is on the ground otherwise airplane would not be flying ?
Maybe once the airplanes land the passengers become killers ?
Papers, please!
Or, Trains or buses or taxis.
I see the public buses are still running.
A hitlery virus ??? Could be ....
Yep they are the government and they are here to help .....
And it will only cost us several trillion dollars. A deal really.
You should read every part of this; Trump has the power to go full dictator any time he wants.
It’s counter productive to tell us not to stockpile and then in the next breath say we’ve got to stay home completely.
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