Trump understands what his critics don’t: The current lockdown is unsustainable

[dcbl]

it is absolutely amazing to me that prominent Democrats and their sycophants in the dishonest and corrupt media can't see it

EVERY shot they take at this President has failed miserably

and things do not look to change anytime soon

the chloroquine pills are helping people (despite not going through "channels" and ensuring profits for the "right people")

and Americans can see the Trump is working for them

LINK

President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense.

After the president expressed hope that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was showing signs of success as a treatment for the coronavirus, news organizations tried to blame him for the death of an Arizona man who self-medicated with fish tank solvent that contained a different form of the substance. “Man dies after taking drug touted as coronavirus treatment by Trump,” CBS News declared. No, he didn’t. Trump never suggested anyone self-medicate with aquarium cleaner.

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Now the latest source of outrage is the president’s announcement that wants to begin lifting the current economic lockdown by Easter. In a press briefing Tuesday, Trump said his “goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country” and that “I hope we can do this by Easter,” but added that “our decision will be based on hard facts and data.”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Every life matters. That is why at the start of a pandemic, the right strategy is to accept high economic risk in order to mitigate the risks to public health of a new and unknown pathogen. Trump effectively ordered a recession — asking businesses to close and workers to stay home — to slow the spread of the virus so that public health officials could learn how it behaves, develop our testing capability and increase the production of protective gear, ventilators and hospital capacity for the hardest-hit areas, as well as the development of therapeutics to treat it.

But over time, as we get a handle on the outbreak, we need to start adjusting our decision-making to balance risk with the massive toll the lockdown is taking on the American people. While journalists can telework, millions of Americans who can’t are losing their careers and the businesses they spent a lifetime building. A prolonged economic shutdown will lead to deaths as well, in the form of increased rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide.

 

[colfax_m]

Everybody knows that. No one intends the lockdown to continue indefinitely.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Considering the numbers presented by the seasonal flu and those presented by the Wuhan virus, our current madness over the latter is in no way justified.

 

[Mac-7]

it is absolutely amazing to me that prominent Democrats and their sycophants in the dishonest and corrupt media can't see it

EVERY shot they take at this President has failed miserably

and things do not look to change anytime soon

the chloroquine pills are helping people (despite not going through "channels" and ensuring profits for the "right people")

and Americans can see the Trump is working for them

LINK

President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense.

After the president expressed hope that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was showing signs of success as a treatment for the coronavirus, news organizations tried to blame him for the death of an Arizona man who self-medicated with fish tank solvent that contained a different form of the substance. “Man dies after taking drug touted as coronavirus treatment by Trump,” CBS News declared. No, he didn’t. Trump never suggested anyone self-medicate with aquarium cleaner.

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Now the latest source of outrage is the president’s announcement that wants to begin lifting the current economic lockdown by Easter. In a press briefing Tuesday, Trump said his “goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country” and that “I hope we can do this by Easter,” but added that “our decision will be based on hard facts and data.”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Every life matters. That is why at the start of a pandemic, the right strategy is to accept high economic risk in order to mitigate the risks to public health of a new and unknown pathogen. Trump effectively ordered a recession — asking businesses to close and workers to stay home — to slow the spread of the virus so that public health officials could learn how it behaves, develop our testing capability and increase the production of protective gear, ventilators and hospital capacity for the hardest-hit areas, as well as the development of therapeutics to treat it.

But over time, as we get a handle on the outbreak, we need to start adjusting our decision-making to balance risk with the massive toll the lockdown is taking on the American people. While journalists can telework, millions of Americans who can’t are losing their careers and the businesses they spent a lifetime building. A prolonged economic shutdown will lead to deaths as well, in the form of increased rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide.

when the lib news media tells lies about trump - such as the fish tank solution story - and trumps poll numbers go up, that means the public does not believe the media

this is a sign of progress

 

[Mac-7]

Considering the numbers presented by the seasonal flu and those presented by the Wuhan virus, our current madness over the latter is in no way justified.

The health professionals insisted that it had to be done

trump resisted the lockdown and the panic we have now but the public is gripped by fear

 

[DGS49]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

it is absolutely amazing to me that prominent Democrats and their sycophants in the dishonest and corrupt media can't see it

EVERY shot they take at this President has failed miserably

and things do not look to change anytime soon

the chloroquine pills are helping people (despite not going through "channels" and ensuring profits for the "right people")

and Americans can see the Trump is working for them

LINK

President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense.

After the president expressed hope that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was showing signs of success as a treatment for the coronavirus, news organizations tried to blame him for the death of an Arizona man who self-medicated with fish tank solvent that contained a different form of the substance. “Man dies after taking drug touted as coronavirus treatment by Trump,” CBS News declared. No, he didn’t. Trump never suggested anyone self-medicate with aquarium cleaner.

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Now the latest source of outrage is the president’s announcement that wants to begin lifting the current economic lockdown by Easter. In a press briefing Tuesday, Trump said his “goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country” and that “I hope we can do this by Easter,” but added that “our decision will be based on hard facts and data.”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Every life matters. That is why at the start of a pandemic, the right strategy is to accept high economic risk in order to mitigate the risks to public health of a new and unknown pathogen. Trump effectively ordered a recession — asking businesses to close and workers to stay home — to slow the spread of the virus so that public health officials could learn how it behaves, develop our testing capability and increase the production of protective gear, ventilators and hospital capacity for the hardest-hit areas, as well as the development of therapeutics to treat it.

But over time, as we get a handle on the outbreak, we need to start adjusting our decision-making to balance risk with the massive toll the lockdown is taking on the American people. While journalists can telework, millions of Americans who can’t are losing their careers and the businesses they spent a lifetime building. A prolonged economic shutdown will lead to deaths as well, in the form of increased rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide.

This is an interesting article. The graphs show that Trump has failed by virtually every measure to do his job. Check out the comparisons between the US and Korea. It is clear where the competency lies. The UK is no better.

US now has the most coronavirus cases in the world

New figures released on Thursday show that the US has overtaken China and Italy with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[EvMetro]

It is self evident that current lockdowns are unsustainable. They are already breaking down, and Americans everywhere can see that the pandemic hoax is crumbling as well.

 

[colfax_m]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Because it’s confusing and misleading. People are getting mixed messages. Trump says everything is going great. Five minutes later we hear that cases are accelerating from the CDC.

 

[shockedcanadian]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Reminds me of all the "we have 10 years left to live before the climate kills us all!" hysteria. Some always look to push an agenda and when others say "wait a minute here, that's an extreme statement', they are tarred and feathered with any number of terms, all of them suggesting they don't care about lives.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

it is absolutely amazing to me that prominent Democrats and their sycophants in the dishonest and corrupt media can't see it

EVERY shot they take at this President has failed miserably

and things do not look to change anytime soon

the chloroquine pills are helping people (despite not going through "channels" and ensuring profits for the "right people")

and Americans can see the Trump is working for them

LINK

President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense.

After the president expressed hope that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was showing signs of success as a treatment for the coronavirus, news organizations tried to blame him for the death of an Arizona man who self-medicated with fish tank solvent that contained a different form of the substance. “Man dies after taking drug touted as coronavirus treatment by Trump,” CBS News declared. No, he didn’t. Trump never suggested anyone self-medicate with aquarium cleaner.

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Now the latest source of outrage is the president’s announcement that wants to begin lifting the current economic lockdown by Easter. In a press briefing Tuesday, Trump said his “goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country” and that “I hope we can do this by Easter,” but added that “our decision will be based on hard facts and data.”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Every life matters. That is why at the start of a pandemic, the right strategy is to accept high economic risk in order to mitigate the risks to public health of a new and unknown pathogen. Trump effectively ordered a recession — asking businesses to close and workers to stay home — to slow the spread of the virus so that public health officials could learn how it behaves, develop our testing capability and increase the production of protective gear, ventilators and hospital capacity for the hardest-hit areas, as well as the development of therapeutics to treat it.

But over time, as we get a handle on the outbreak, we need to start adjusting our decision-making to balance risk with the massive toll the lockdown is taking on the American people. While journalists can telework, millions of Americans who can’t are losing their careers and the businesses they spent a lifetime building. A prolonged economic shutdown will lead to deaths as well, in the form of increased rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide.

Jeepers, if he just would have taken it seriously back in January, just think, what we're going through might largely not be necessary. But there's the rub. You'd have to think clearly and give him the criticism he deserves for not taking this virus as a serious threat. That's the reason you have to take drastic measures. Let's stop with the deflecting on the drug treatment. I don't care if the guy injected himself with the water from the fish tank. Trump stood up in front of the nation and made these drugs seem like they were a cure or a prevention for this virus. Words from a President matter. You Trump supporters should have learned this after Charlottesville. The Easter hope is just that, a hope. It ain't gonna happen. But you won't point the finger where a large amount of the blame belongs. Straight at the guy occupying the Oval Office chair.

 

[Siete]

Trump understands what his critics don’t: The current lockdown is unsustainable


then sustain a few million deaths - MORON

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

it is absolutely amazing to me that prominent Democrats and their sycophants in the dishonest and corrupt media can't see it

EVERY shot they take at this President has failed miserably

and things do not look to change anytime soon

the chloroquine pills are helping people (despite not going through "channels" and ensuring profits for the "right people")

and Americans can see the Trump is working for them

LINK

President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense.

After the president expressed hope that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was showing signs of success as a treatment for the coronavirus, news organizations tried to blame him for the death of an Arizona man who self-medicated with fish tank solvent that contained a different form of the substance. “Man dies after taking drug touted as coronavirus treatment by Trump,” CBS News declared. No, he didn’t. Trump never suggested anyone self-medicate with aquarium cleaner.

Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today’s most popular stories on The Washington Post

Now the latest source of outrage is the president’s announcement that wants to begin lifting the current economic lockdown by Easter. In a press briefing Tuesday, Trump said his “goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country” and that “I hope we can do this by Easter,” but added that “our decision will be based on hard facts and data.”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Every life matters. That is why at the start of a pandemic, the right strategy is to accept high economic risk in order to mitigate the risks to public health of a new and unknown pathogen. Trump effectively ordered a recession — asking businesses to close and workers to stay home — to slow the spread of the virus so that public health officials could learn how it behaves, develop our testing capability and increase the production of protective gear, ventilators and hospital capacity for the hardest-hit areas, as well as the development of therapeutics to treat it.

But over time, as we get a handle on the outbreak, we need to start adjusting our decision-making to balance risk with the massive toll the lockdown is taking on the American people. While journalists can telework, millions of Americans who can’t are losing their careers and the businesses they spent a lifetime building. A prolonged economic shutdown will lead to deaths as well, in the form of increased rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide.

Oh, they understand. It's by design.

These commie motherfuckers WANT desperation.

We need to kill them all.


(for mommy)
.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Can I volunteer for the firing squad that will carry out said execution?

.

 

[martybegan]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Because it’s confusing and misleading. People are getting mixed messages. Trump says everything is going great. Five minutes later we hear that cases are accelerating from the CDC.

So he should say we are all going to die and should form Mongolian hordes on horseback to run across the plains to rape and pillage?

 

[colfax_m]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Because it’s confusing and misleading. People are getting mixed messages. Trump says everything is going great. Five minutes later we hear that cases are accelerating from the CDC.

So he should say we are all going to die and should form Mongolian hordes on horseback to run across the plains to rape and pillage?

Obviously that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Good lord. Y’all are taking this really hard.

 

[Siete]

It is self evident that current lockdowns are unsustainable. They are already breaking down, and Americans everywhere can see that the pandemic hoax is crumbling as well.

nothing stopping you from going to NYC and rubbing elbows with the HOAX -

 

[martybegan]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Because it’s confusing and misleading. People are getting mixed messages. Trump says everything is going great. Five minutes later we hear that cases are accelerating from the CDC.

So he should say we are all going to die and should form Mongolian hordes on horseback to run across the plains to rape and pillage?

Obviously that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Good lord. Y’all are taking this really hard.

Sorry, but your general "Trump is doin it wrong" statement deserved nothing but snark.

He shut down China Travel, Put in place the CDC warnings, Authorized the NDA to get the manufacturers moving, mobilized FEMA, and is mobilizing parts of the military to help out.

If he tries to calm people by saying sooner or later we need to reopen the country for business, where is the actual harm being done?

And all parts of the US aren't the major cities like NY, hell even parts of NY State could probably lessen restrictions without issue.

 

[colfax_m]

The other point that is never written about is that the President (no matter who he is) must project a sense of OPTIMISM. The combination of forced unemployment, forced separation, restriction of normal activities is certainly causes millions to fall into fits of depressions. The LAST thing we need is a President saying, "this thing is going to last YEARS..."

The "journalists" who bad-mouthed the President for saying that we should start coming out by Easter should be shot. In public. Bad mouthing him for EXPRESSING A HOPE???

How low can you go?

Because it’s confusing and misleading. People are getting mixed messages. Trump says everything is going great. Five minutes later we hear that cases are accelerating from the CDC.

So he should say we are all going to die and should form Mongolian hordes on horseback to run across the plains to rape and pillage?

Obviously that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Good lord. Y’all are taking this really hard.

Sorry, but your general "Trump is doin it wrong" statement deserved nothing but snark.

He shut down China Travel, Put in place the CDC warnings, Authorized the NDA to get the manufacturers moving, mobilized FEMA, and is mobilizing parts of the military to help out.

If he tries to calm people by saying sooner or later we need to reopen the country for business, where is the actual harm being done?

And all parts of the US aren't the major cities like NY, hell even parts of NY State could probably lessen restrictions without issue.

If all you have is snark, then there’s no point in discussion.

Trump’s statements are fair game for criticism. His “hopeful” statements are confusing because it’s putting out a time frame which is not backed by anything real, just his hope. Confusion is not calming. It’s the opposite.

 

[Siete]

Voters More Worried About Health Than Economy, Want Social Distancing to Stay

Voters are far more concerned about public health than damage to the economy, and most are willing to commit to social distancing measures for as long as it takes, according to new Morning Consult data.

morningconsult.com

lucky for the country sanity exists -