Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Trump tells governors to seriously consider and maybe get going on opening schools.

Yeah it would be nice to reopen everything back up. It would be nice having a president that actually took responsibility and had some empathy too. Instead we have Trump saying crap like this when even by the feds standards it’s not safe to reopen schools.



While your side is selling its lying narrative to that effect, countries like Sweden, Austria,Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech republic, and even Spain and Italy are gradually re-opening their countries. Far faster than the U.S.
While I share concern for opening the economy safely, and like anyone else am concerned about a resurgence, it seems to me that Fauci and Birx are overseeing that re-opening and as Birx said, they look county-by-county, and if there is a resurgence of cases, they will re-instate shelter restrictions. But clearly they want to do it right the first time, so they don't have to issue a new shelter order later.

You also seem to be selling (like so many times before) a lying narrative of a conflict between Fauci and Trump, despite that Fauci has never expressed that, and is right there in front of the cameras with Trump every day.

If you look at the numbers, the ratio of fatalities for the U.S. is lower than any nation in Europe except Germany. Why assume the worst, except because of a mindless hatred of Trump and partisan zeal to destroy him?

Sweden NEVER had a shutdown, and yet has a ratio of infections and deaths on a par with the U.S. and other countries. And as I cited with linked sources, the outbreak in the U.S. has been far wider than previously known, as revealed by random testing in Santa Clara county (San Francisco area), Los Angeles County, Miami, four Ohio State prisons tested, the New York state area, and foreign studies such as in Iceland.
This virus is highly infectious and spreading beyond expectations, but that ISN'T Trump'ss fault. Despite your obsessive need to MAKE IT his fault. The fortunate thing is in a majority of cases it is mild or even symptom free, and the fatality rate is far lower than they initially believed a few weeks ago. Previously believed to be about a 3% death rate, with random population tests nationwide now believed to be about 0.02%.

AGAIN: the reason for the shutdown was to prepare hospitals so they would be fully supllied and ready, and not be overwhelmed. That goal was reached and the peak passed around April 14th.
So what is the logic at this point of a complete shutdown, in a third of the country, that was never even impacted?

Many believe Democrat governors and their brethren in Washington are abusing the shutdown to advance authoritarian socialist abuses against gunstores and Christians and other groups they don't like, and to advance welfare spending and other spending way beyond the needed period. And to prolong the economic destruction to damage Trump in the November election. And in the process, throw 27 million small business owners and their hurting employees under the bus, just to advance Democrat power.