States with major cities and more international tourists?
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If the economy is "raring to go" for Easter and trump pressures states to relax the mitigation steps they've taken, then it's going to spread fast again. The old and the weak are at most vulnerable, so allowing covid-19 to spread uncontrollably again would be putting those people at risk. Even if they are allowed to "shelter in place" to avoid reporting to work and make other special considerations for their needs (healthcare, food delivery, etc), the few people they would come into contact with would now have a higher risk of being carriers. So yes, I shortened to to "throw the old and the weak to the wolves" (quotation for quoting myself, not quoting trump, I never intended that to be a quote just my commentary on what he's effectively wanting to do).
It's weird you expect mayors to have more and better access to international heath crises than the federal government. Nevermind the state of Washington has been begging the feds for emergency funding and help from the CDC since the end of January. Sorry, but a disease isn't political.
Quite a reach there. You took 3 words that he said and came up with an entire (hypothetical) scenario, and assigned him blame for your (hypothetical) scenario. I mean, come on. I don't believe for a second that the economy will be raring to go by Easter. I think he's trying to calm the masses and keep the market from further free fall.
Go here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Click on any country with a hyper link. There are very few that have a graph that looks any different from ours. Those countries are either:
1. Small, so more manageable
2. Socialist/Communist, so they can force more drastic measures easier
3. Reporting incomplete data because they're not testing adequately
Most countries have a graph that looks exactly like ours. Is Trump responsible for those countries as well? As I ask that, I realize there are several people ITT that will say "yes, it is".
If he's pressuring businesses and states and federal offices to re-open before we have it under control, he's doing exactly that. Believe it or not, folks usually don't say the god awful thing they know will be a consequence of their actions when they wanna act anyway. Though some on the state level are in fact admitting they would be sacrificing certain segments of the population.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...amp/2905990001
Making dumb unreasonable comments to "calm the markets" when we all know the truth doesn't in fact calm the markets, instead makes them more volatile cause no one know wtf the plan is. We are well past the point of calming the markets, and "re-opening business" ain't gonna change that because the markets understand that there is no prosperity while this is an ongoing issue.
People on both sides of this issue tend to only see and hear what they want to see and hear. The truth as always is somewhere in the middle.
If trump were wanting to throw the "old and weak to the wolves" why wait till Easter or say he'd reevaluate then? Just open it now or declare it over on Easter right now
We need an initial strong centralize plan, followed by regional/state/city level plans once we can pause and figure out where this shit is. New Orleans probably wishes they'd been forced to cancel Mardi Gras about now, but at the time there weren't any cases in New Orleans, so party on, right? What about spring breakers in Florida and Texas last week? St paddy's partners in Chicago and Boston? Churchgoers in Baton Rouge? Every time some dumbshits gather in a big group like that, we have to assume a mass spread just occurred and need to push back everything another couple weeks. All we are gonna end up with is states using police force to impose checkpoints on their state lines with this hodgepodge array of measures being taken.
Why even talk like that if he's not at least strongly considering it?
Jesus Christ, some of y'all have a ****ed up sense of how one should lead in these times. W was a fine leader to calm and unite the country after 9/11. I am not a fan of W's politics, but he made me feel at ease because he didn't come out rambling, contradicting himself, issuing statements after addressing the nation contradicting the actual shit he said when addressing the nation, it's fine to admit he is in way over his head and we are all worse off for it, even if you like low taxes and small gubment.
It's the problem plaguing our country right now, in all phases. People will get on one side of an argument and refuse to listen to rational thought from the other side. If you keep an open mind you can really learn something from other folks even if you think you know everything already lol.
Guess what... I hope it's open by Easter too. Lots of my family and friends are headed for hard times. Am I willing to "throw the weak and old to the wolves"? No, but if the economy is down too long, we throwing a crap load of the old, young, and in between to the wolves. Not everyone has a government job.