I traveled last week - airlines are already affected due to changes in travel policies by many companies. Also canceled my travel for next week.
Domestic Travel Ban?
- Thread starter Travis Galey
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What's your news source(s)? Serious question.
Trump has been a stream of inaccuracies from day 1. Evaluating his own words, and BTW he has the best words, he's the embodiment of the fake news he rails against.
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 13 Trump declares a national emergency to deal with coronavirus.
How much time did you spend in the coronavirus thread that started on Jan. 25th? People, including me, were showing serious concern more than a month ago.
I actually own a business and this shit has been keeping me up at night for about a week. I’ve started implementing plans to ensure that my employees are taken care of to the best of my ability.
Thanks for your input tho
This assumes the leader of a country has little bearing on how the country responds and behaves. I'm not a fan of Bush 2, but this (video below) was a defining moment and he deserves a ton of credit for making Americans feel better that day.
The current guy, not so much.
On feb 23rd I asked why our borders are still open to South Korea, Italy, and all other Europeans countries.
Y’all should elect me in 2024.
Really not fair for you to use his actual words against him.
hardly. I’ve never voted for a democrat for president and I actually voted for Trump. Unlike you I’m not completely in the tank blindly agreeing with whatever my “side” does.
People forget the reaction when Trump put the China travel ban into effect. He’s been ahead of others on travel bans.
How can you think shutting down for 3 weeks is a good idea? There is no scenario where every single business just hits pause for 3 weeks. Refiners would start sourcing from Mexico or whoever cheats and stays open. The same would be true across the spectrum. You would lose your market share even if you had the cash to stay viable.
I’m missing the part where I said it was a good idea? All I said is it seems like that’s the direction it’s going in and if that’s the case then just rip the damn bandaid off and do it...I said nothing about it being a good or bad idea.
This entire thing sucks.
You realize we don’t live in a country where the president has total power right? He can’t just do whatever he sees fit his goal was to keep panic down so the economy didn’t crash.
Just doesn’t seem like a reasonable response to what is ostensibly a light flu. It would be more reasonable to let everyone get it than destroy millions of jobs and thousands upon thousands of businesses.
once they can announce the protections to the airlines they will announce the domestic travel ban.
That current data, not news. Looking for something more like this -
France orders non-essential public places to close
And this one REALLY gets your attention, right? 50% of people in ICU are under 60 years old.
What the obtuse don't realize is that things in nature change, and can do so rapidly. And that scientists tend to be the best at projecting these changes.
JFC...of course hospitals aren't overrun when this thing is in its infancy in this country. Ebola was far more deadly, but also far, far less contagious. The fact people still don't understand these very basic facts is pretty staggering.
Poors love Spirit Airlines. It’s like riding a greyhound bus.
certain areas will absolutely have their health care infrastructure overrun. we wont know if the measures we take will impact the future for another 10 days.
The DOD just issued a stop movement on all domestic travel. Are you insinuating that they are a bunch of dumbasses that took too long?
You’ll still be called a liar and fake news. They’ll argue with you, even though those are his own words.
Well you’ve been a clown this whole time so the fact this is even being considered by trump (with all the other things done so far ) should tell you things are more serious than a cold
cases in Italy still exploding and we are about 10-15 days behind them per the experts
Spain going on lockdown today. France being locked down
I’m not saying he handled it well. I’m saying people who act like these types of decisions are easy are out of their mind. Keep your politics aside. No matter who is in charge, these decisions are incredibly difficult.
this impacts all services we take for granted. police forces (already happening in denver) might not respond to all low level crime calls.... hospitals will likely cancel elective procedures...store inventories wont be restocked.. etc... etc.... etc.
how exactly do you cancel a presidential election? Trump just automatically serves another term because? Can you imagine the riots and unrest if people aren’t allowed to vote?
Hundreds of old people confined in small spaces all repeatedly touching the same machines just seems like a recipe for disaster.
i bet this because a big talking point in 30 days if this doesnt improve. online voting? not sure we have the people to roll that out in time.... or ways to verify the votes/voters. how does the constitution address a matter like this?
