Mr. President, the only answer is to shut down the country for the next 30 days and close the borders. Tell all Americans that you are putting us on an extended Spring Break at home with family. Keep only essential services open. The government pays wages until we reopen.
As the virus spreads across America, Ackman sees only one way out…
“You cant borrow your way out of the problem, you can’t lend your way out of the crisis.. you have to kill the virus.”
“America will end as we know it,” warned the infamous hedge fund manager, unless President Trump shuts down the country for 30 days to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus, calling it the only option to rescue the economy.
“We need to shut it down now… This is the only answer.”
Ackman added if Trump saves the country from the coronavirus, he will get reelected in November, with the billionaire urging US companies to stop their buyback programs because “hell is coming.”
“The hotel industry and the restaurant industry will go bankrupt first, Boeing is on the brink, Boeing will not survive without a government bailout,” Ackman said.
Finally, a clearly emotional Ackman exclaimed”
“I’m not going to kill my father [who is immunocompromised], I went into lockdown almost a month ago to save my father’s life.”
Every American should listen:
“The only shared sacrifice that is going on right now is the health-care community, the nurses, the doctors, the people taking care of patients. Those people are making enormous sacrifices,” said Ackman.
[The president] is not saying storm the beaches of Normandy right, he’s saying go home, go home, spend a month with your family. ”
If you weren’t concerned before – you should be now – Watch the full interview below…
Well, most of us are now there. We will never have 100% of the people accept the truth but we are as close as possible. I have learned much over the past 9 weeks concerning people and their character. It is good information and will not be forgotten.
COVID-19 has changed our world and the changes are just beginning. How we adapt will either temper our souls or cast them into darkness. For those who are in despair over their personal fortunes, the economy and the future, turn to your faith and Trust in the Lord.
David DeGerolamo
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What’s the better for dealing with pandemic disease: martial-law quarantines imposed by the state according to geography, or keeping society open while trusting medical professionals, individuals, families, and communities to make intelligent decisions?
A month ago, such a question would have been purely hypothetical but the answer in the United States would have been settled. After all, this is a country of law, with a Bill of Rights, limits on state power, and an essential trust in freedom. Right?
How times change in a crisis. Mayors and governors around the country are imposing quarantines, not because they work but because they don’t want to be blamed for failing to act. So let’s consider that essential question: what works?
South Korea has seen a steady decrease in new coronavirus cases for the latter half of the last week. The country had the fourth most cases of coronavirus in the world. There were no geographic quarantines enforced by armed guards. Instead, the sole focus was on widespread testing and isolating the sick.
After averaging over 500 new cases per day back to the last week of February, between Friday and Sunday the daily totals numbered 438, 367, and 248 according to the Korea Center for Disease Control.
How is it that without deploying the military or imposing widespread, enforced quarantine, the spread of coronavirus in South Korea is apparently slowing?
Actually, there’s a better question: why should the U.S. copy China rather than South Korea?
While the global spread of the virus is still unfolding and the appearance of new strains may throw the proverbial wrench into Seoul’s policy mechanism, at present the results speak for themselves.
Every government action which reduces liberty from any starting point generates net costs, whether put forth under calamitous or idyllic circumstances. Freedom is not a fair-weather proposition. We love it and defend it because it works, in normal times or crisis times.
The quick decision among most countries to deploy their military, force the lockdown of communities, pressure firms to withhold their services, and paralyze individual movement reveals precisely what we suspected but did not fully know about our ruling classes. Our liberties are expendable when they say they are.
Once
upon a time, Jennifer Rubin was an intelligent woman. Things started
to go downhill when she went to work for the Washington Post, but what
really flipped the switch in her brain was seeing Donald Trump become
president. Not only did she lose perspective, but she also lost
intelligence, self-restraint, and decency. Her latest flight of
NeverTrump nastiness has her speculation about possible Republican
deaths during a time of coronavirus. Her speculation not only reveals
an even further degradation of mind and soul, but she’s got things
entirely bass-ackwards wrong — and a couple of maps prove it.
Maybe
the seeds of Rubin’s decay were always there, considering that she
attended U.C. Berkeley both as an undergraduate and at law school. Her
downslide might also have come from spending twenty years in Hollywood
working as a labor and employment lawyer.
Or
perhaps the problem was when she moved with her family to Virginia and
started writing for The Weekly Standard and Commentary magazine. Her
work there was excellent during the Bush and Obama years, when these
magazines were conservative stalwarts. As you may recall, though, both
magazines went all in for NeverTrumpism, which eventually killed The
Weekly Standard.
By
the time The Weekly Standard died, Rubin had already moved on to
the Washington Post, ostensibly as a “conservative” commentator. At
that point, the years at Berkeley, in Hollywood, and at two cocktail
party–circuit “conservative” magazines had already started to catch up
with her. By the time Donald Trump came along, the term “conservative”
when attached to her name was a misnomer. As with Bill Kristol, her
hatred for Trump caused a seismic shift in her political
ideology. Rubin’s fanatical hatred for Trump is such that she’d rather
embrace a hard-left platform (for there’s little real difference between
Bernie’s agenda and Biden’s other than the speed of change) than see Trump in the White House.
One can be wrong but not evil. The coronavirus, though, has brought had the true nastiness that underlies Rubin’s character:
What’s
ironic about Rubin’s mean-spirited conclusion that Republicans will die
is that the disease’s spread belies it. Remember that the coronavirus
is a disease of proximity, and the Democrat Party is essentially an
urban party, where people are jammed cheek by jowl into the same
places. It’s also a party that facilitates homelessness and enables filth and drug use, encourages reusable shopping bags that are disease vectors; and wants to pack people into densely populated high rise buildings and public transportation. With that in mind, you’ll notice a similarity between the two maps below.
The first map is a screenshot from the New York Times’s coronavirus page. It shows reported cases, with the larger circles identifying higher numbers of cases:
The second map is a screenshot of a Time 2016 election map showing the proportional winner’s vote total in each county:
The two maps look remarkably similar.
Republicans
are not blind to the fact that the coronavirus is a nasty disease that
must be respected. However, they know a few other things, too:
They
know that the Democrats and their media hacks are using the coronavirus
to destroy Trump’s presidency, in contrast to their placidity about the
H1N1 problem during Obama’s presidency, when many more people took ill
and died. They know that the Democrats are trying to use emergency
legislation to push through their political agenda. And they know that,
living as they do in more wide open spaces, they’re less at risk than
people packed into filthy Democrat-run cities.
What
this means is that Republicans, unlike Democrats, are not running
around like Chicken Little, screaming that we’re all going to die. They
believe in American strength, modern science, and the power of the free
market. They know that those countries hardest hit — China, Italy, and
Iran — have socialized medicine, aged populations, bad pollution, and
widespread cigarette smoking.
And
being decent people, rather than gloating that people in Trump-hating
cities appear to be most at risk, they know that we Americans are in
this together and wish them well in this time of fear and sickness.
This isn’t a ramble. I have a number of lines of thought I’ve been stewing over at work all weekend, and I’ll be going down each one until I’m done. Let’s begin. 4000 8000 16000 32000 64000 128000 256000 512000 1000000 2000000 4000000 8000000 16000000 32000000 64000000 128000000 256000000 512000000
4000 is the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. now. (That we know about. Reality could be 100,000 or more.)
If that original number doubles seventeen more times, the product is a number larger than the populations of the U.S. (330M), Mexico(137M), and Canada(37M), combined. IOW, it’s virtually everywhere in North America at that point. (No, I’m not particularly concerned about the banana republics between Mexico and South America in this regard. They can lump it.)
What I’ve read is that the outbreak is doubling every 4-6 days. So somewhere between 68 and 102 days from today, the shit sandwich on this continent reaches full maturity.
If the spread of the disease is moving at that rate. If the current voluntary measures don’t halt that growth, or even slow that pace. If it doesn’t run out of people stupid enough to keep doing things to spread it.
With the above caveats: May 22nd, to June 26th, give or take. It crests 100M cases a week to two earlier.
Long before then, we’ll have a great view of how lethal it is, and how many cases are serious. So by somewhere between mid-May and Mid-June, we’ll either have metric f**ktons of people requiring hospitalization, and dead, or not. How much better or worse it is then will be a foolproof look at whether this is a nothingburger, or Spanish Flu. Oh, and if there are really 100,000 cases now, we get there a full month earlier.
Now maybe you can figure out why POTUS said this will last through July or August, at minimum.
The more we learn about the coronavirus, the more nefarious it becomes. Most public efforts to are focused on detecting those with symptoms, like a fever. But new research shows that the majority of covid-19 carriers (50%-75%) are asymptomatic. So you’re much more likely to get infected by someone who looks and feels fine.
To date it looked like only the elderly and immunocompromised were at risk of serious complications. Well, that assumption is changing. European doctors are reporting a concerning number of younger, healthy people getting sick, too.
Similarly, it was assumed that the virus didn’t thrive in heat and humidity. Hopes in the northern hemisphere have been pinned on the nearing arrival of Spring. Well, new data shows that this may be false hope. And as government response plans become clearer, the math shows that most of them will be too insufficient to “Flatten The Curve” much and prevent national health care systems from being overwhelmed.
Combined, most of what we’re learning now reinforces the conclusion that many, many people will become infected; the virus will be with us a long time; and the economic legacy will be massive and painful.
As an MIT PhD in Biological Engineering who studies & does research nearly every day on the Immune System, the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine! https://t.co/Q5VeOqzWEp
— Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email (@va_shiva) March 9, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that intelligence community personnel have at least three months’ worth of food on hand in the event of an uncontrolled pandemic.
The recommendation was contained in an unclassified influenza contingency plan drafted in 2009 by the National Security Agency. It details the sweeping steps the spy agency should take to keep its personnel safe and working on critical intelligence matters in the event of such a crisis.
As we detailed below, Amazon was already struggling to meet delivery goals and having problems with stock, but now, in a blog post, Amazon told sellers on Tuesday that it’s suspending shipments of all non-essential products to its warehouses to deal with the increased workloads following the coronavirus outbreak.
“We are temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into our fulfillment centers so that we can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers,” the message said.
That means sellers who use Amazon’s storage and delivery network for a fixed fee, through a program called Fulfillment by Amazon, will no longer be able to ship their products to Amazon.
“We are seeing increased online shopping, and as a result some products such as household staples and medical supplies are out of stock.”
