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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,334 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:38 PM May 2020

Trump says US won't close over second COVID-19 wave

President Trump said Thursday the United States would not shut down in the case of a second coronavirus wave.

"People say that's a very distinct possibility. It's standard. And we're going to put out the fires. We're not going to close the country. We're going to put out the fires," Trump told reporters during a tour of a Ford manufacturing plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., when asked if he was concerned about a second wave of COVID-19.

Trump expressed confidence in the country's ability to contain future outbreaks, referring to them as "embers."

"Whether it's an ember or a flame, we're going to put it out. But we're not closing our country," the president continued.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-us-wont-close-over-second-covid-19-wave/ar-BB14qUB5?li=BBnb7Kz

It's up to the states to decide not him. Besides I doubt he'll still be president.

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Trump says US won't close over second COVID-19 wave (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
What's the line, Don? OAITW r.2.0 May 2020 #1
We need to make sure that it's Pres. Biden making those decisions. woodsprite May 2020 #2
He will be a lame duck president at that time. People will be ignoring him tulipsandroses May 2020 #3
It's not up to him. aquamarina May 2020 #4
+100000 Celerity May 2020 #11
Projecting a future... Newest Reality May 2020 #5
The Orange Idiot doesn't have a say. J_William_Ryan May 2020 #6
It's what happened in the 1918 flu pandemic. People ignored the rules when it came back mucifer May 2020 #7
All too likely. I don't know when Flu season starts Vogon_Glory May 2020 #12
He didn't close anything the first time. It's not up to him. onecaliberal May 2020 #8
How? Tree-Hugger May 2020 #9
It's not his decision. He fucked this up the first time. smirkymonkey May 2020 #10

woodsprite

(11,934 posts)
2. We need to make sure that it's Pres. Biden making those decisions.
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:43 PM
May 2020

Hopefully it will hold off long enough, although if it follows in the steps of the 1918, we'll be seeing it start to escalate in October/November. The way some of the states are playing it, it may even be before that.

tulipsandroses

(5,131 posts)
3. He will be a lame duck president at that time. People will be ignoring him
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:44 PM
May 2020

What he has to say will not matter much by that time. I trust that our governors and mayors are thinking ahead and strategizing how to handle resurgence in the Fall. We know he'll be petty as hell as a lame duck president.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
5. Projecting a future...
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:45 PM
May 2020

He is just projecting something based on his campaign ambitions, which seem to be all he is ever really concerned about, (ratings).

If the second wave is bad, and it could be with all this equivocating, premature opening, protesting in groups, etc., then it won't be a choice for things to close down, it will be a priority.

Again, as I have said, it is not some door he can open or close at all, the states will deal with it and the Federal Government will confuse, mess up and abandon the efforts, as before. Trump is totally worthless and even a bane in a crisis. We all know that as a fact.

mucifer

(23,580 posts)
7. It's what happened in the 1918 flu pandemic. People ignored the rules when it came back
Thu May 21, 2020, 11:26 PM
May 2020

and the second wave was the most fatal.

I suspect that is what is going to happen.

Vogon_Glory

(9,133 posts)
12. All too likely. I don't know when Flu season starts
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:59 AM
May 2020

But if it starts T least two weeks before Election Day, Trump will lose.

A very thin silver lining on a hurricane-sized dark cloud of death and destruction.

onecaliberal

(32,940 posts)
8. He didn't close anything the first time. It's not up to him.
Thu May 21, 2020, 11:32 PM
May 2020

56,000 people would still be here had that loathsome soulless pos actually got off his morbidly obese ass and done something.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. It's not his decision. He fucked this up the first time.
Fri May 22, 2020, 01:08 AM
May 2020

Nobody is going to defer to him during a second wave. He has proven that he is incapable of handling a crisis of this magnitude. We are on our own. The states are on their own.

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