The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

[QMany]

After three years of unconstitutional, illegal, and/or authoritarian rule, I'm actually surprised at Trump's lack of action so far. He really hasn't done anything of substance. You'd think overreaching unchecked action is his jam, but he's just deferring to local authorities to fend for themselves and impose their own restrictions. 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

1 minute ago, QMany said:

After three years of unconstitutional, illegal, and/or authoritarian rule, I'm actually surprised at Trump's lack of action so far. He really hasn't done anything of substance. You'd think overreaching unchecked action is his jam, but he's just deferring to local authorities to fend for themselves and impose their own restrictions. 

Speaking of that I heard an additional rumor that the State of Iowa is going to shut down for two weeks here pretty quickly. Of course rumors are rampent right now of stuff like that so I have no idea what to believe. 

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

So, they want to give families approximately 1/5,000th of what they gave the stock market.

 

Maybe I should be voting for Bernie.

I'm fairly sensitive to the financial industry needing to stay healthy.

However, in this instance, I fail to see what benefit the Feds got for what they did.  

[Danny Bateman]

20 minutes ago, QMany said:

 

 

"You're on your own, sorry."

 

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President Trump told a group of governors Monday morning that they should not wait for the federal government to fill the growing demand for respirators needed to help people diagnosed with coronavirus.

 

“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times.

 

“We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”

 

The suggestion surprised some of the governors, who have been scrambling to contain the outbreak and are increasingly looking to the federal government for help with equipment, personnel and financial aid.

 

Mr. Trump used much of the call to repeat the same upbeat rhetoric he has offered in public, assuring the governors: “We’re going to get it remedied and hopefully very quickly.”

 

Alluding to the Federal Reserve’s emergency intervention, Mr. Trump also told the governors that the central bank’s purchase of $500 billion of Treasury bonds and $200 billion of mortgage-backed securities will “probably go up substantially from that level.”

Without directly faulting former President Obama, he said “we broke down a system that was broken, very badly broken” and vowed to create one “that I think is going to be the talk of the world.”

 

But aside from his rose-colored predictions — which are at odds with his medical advisers, who say the worst is yet to come — Mr. Trump often evinced little awareness of the severity of the contagion.

 

Explaining why he did not include the United Kingdom in his initial travel ban from Europe last week, Mr. Trump said “all of the sudden we were getting numbers that weren’t good so we had to put U.K. in.”

 

He has no idea what he's doing. He's falling back on the same old bullsh#t artist conman shtick he's used his entire career. 

 

It's hard to imagine a person less well-equipped to handle this crisis.

[GSG]

 

[GSG]

 

[commando]

https://abc7news.com/health/6-bay-area-counties-ordered-to-shelter-in-place-due-to-covid-19/6018723/

 

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, at least six San Francisco Bay Area counties are expected to announce a shelter-in-place order. All residents will need to remain at home except for essential needs starting at midnight.

Essential government services will remain open, such as transit, police, fire, and healthcare services, as well as essential stores like grocery markets, pharmacies, banks, and gas stations. Restaurants will be limited to take-out and delivery only; bars, gyms, and non-essential stores to close

 

CORONAVIRUS: Get live updates on the COVID-19 outbreak here

This includes Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda counties.

The order begins at midnight tonight and is expected to last through at least April 7.

[Nebfanatic]

4 minutes ago, commando said:

https://abc7news.com/health/6-bay-area-counties-ordered-to-shelter-in-place-due-to-covid-19/6018723/

 

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, at least six San Francisco Bay Area counties are expected to announce a shelter-in-place order. All residents will need to remain at home except for essential needs starting at midnight.

Essential government services will remain open, such as transit, police, fire, and healthcare services, as well as essential stores like grocery markets, pharmacies, banks, and gas stations. Restaurants will be limited to take-out and delivery only; bars, gyms, and non-essential stores to close

 

CORONAVIRUS: Get live updates on the COVID-19 outbreak here

This includes Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda counties.

The order begins at midnight tonight and is expected to last through at least April 7.

New Orleans announcing similar regulations right now 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

s#!ts getting real now! It'll be like dominoes falling with the lockdowns now. 

[The Dude]

Deleted: wrong corona thread.

[knapplc]

We are going to need this kind of package soon.

 

 

 

 

Also, this is what real leadership looks like.  Get yourself a guy like this.

[knapplc]

Nebraska is not closing schools at this point. I know it's not serious here yet (partly, maybe, because we don't have enough tests to figure out who's infected), but why wait until we have widespread community spread?

 

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

Not closing the schools makes ZERO sense at this point. 

 

Our governor has a press conference scheduled for 4pm. 

[QMany]