03-23-2020, 05:16 PM
(03-23-2020, 05:04 PM)cardcrimson Wrote: Links please. Can't find where Fauci is gone or where Trump states he wants the shutdown to end next week (though frankly, most people want the shutdown to end next week).We don't know how many cases there are in the US to within an order of magnitude. And Trump's "public health experts" are going to be able to figure out where we can lift the quarantines? No way.
Here's a what I did find:
"President Trump said Monday that his administration would work to allow local economies to “cautiously resume” activities at the appropriate time amid the coronavirus outbreak, adding that the United States “wasn’t built to be shut down.”
“Our public health experts, who are terrific, are studying the variation and the disease across the country, and we will be using data to recommend new protocols to allow local economies to cautiously resume their activity at the appropriate time,” Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room Monday evening.
“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down,” Trump continued. “This is not a country that was built for this.” "
Seems reasonable to me.
Apparently he went on to say that he was optimistic that it would be a matter of weeks, not three or four months. Is optimism such a bad thing?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...-shut-down
Fauci said to expect months of shutdown. Show me a mass of reputable epidemiologists who thinks it will be weeks, and I will eat my shorts and post the video of it here on the site. Trump's statement is pure PR, hoping to get a rise in the stock market.
