The Washington Examiner reported that there is a potential plan for a possible two-week lockdown. Only grocery and drug stores would be open. The plan comes from someone the Examiner calls a reliable source.
“Senior officials have said that dozens of radical ideas are being considered and that the president and his virus task force are moving quickly to protect the nation,” the Examiner reported.
THE NATIONAL GUARD WOULD BE CALLED UP
The National Guard would allegedly be dispatched to control looting and other crimes.
Shall we do this every time a superbug hits the nation? How is this different from other pandemics?
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The Hill backs up the Examiner report, claiming that momentum is building for a national shutdown. Some of the President’s advisers including Dr. Fauci are pushing for it.
“I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting,” Fauci said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “I think Americans should be prepared that they’re going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.”
There is no denial from the White House at this time, although they did say on Monday that a nationwide shutdown was not on the table.
We have no idea if this is true, but the owner of the Chinese takeout near my house in New York said that they were informed by the state that all takeout restaurants should prepare to close down.
CRAZY STORY
Rolling Stone is reporting a crazy story about Bill Barr, a constitutionalist, allegedly wanting legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutional rights during the coronavirus crisis and other emergencies. Something is amiss. It’s either a lie or not quite as described. Bill Barr is a strong defender of the constitution.
This is what will go on if the President does go with the nationwide quarantine. The Democrats will accuse him of assuming dictatorial powers even though they are pushing for exactly that. If there are incidents with the National Guard, it won’t be pretty.
OTHER ACTIONS
Secretary Ben Carson announced Saturday, “The President has authorized the immediate cessation of foreclosure and eviction proceedings for American citizens … It’s all about helping our people.”
He also signed legislation providing American workers with paid sick leave and paid family medical leave, at no cost to employers, and free tests for those that need it.
.@SecretaryCarson: “The President has authorized the immediate cessation of foreclosure and eviction proceedings for American citizens … It’s all about helping our people.” pic.twitter.com/LjQpjN3ZEV
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 21, 2020
“Stay at home and save lives. It’s a time of shared national sacrifice, but it’s also a time to treasure our loved ones and to take stock of what’s most important.” pic.twitter.com/BziblJcNjj
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 21, 2020
The trillion or two trillion dollar rescue package will include a great deal of money for state stabilization funds. Democrats asked for $750 billion, although they won’t get quite that much. The money will be used for shortfalls.
Other actions can be reviewed on this link.
Of course Fauci wants martial law! He’s a globalist!
Get ready to arrest me. The military is under no obligation to carry out illegal orders. There should be mass resignations it anyone issues an order like this. There is absolutely zero justification for this. Everyone should be in the streets if this happens. This is the sort of thing that happens in communist dictatorships. This sort of thing violates the entire Bill of Rights and we should all be willing to die to stop it. Somehow we got through WWII without such draconian measures. This entire media manufactured crisis is total BS.
Now we learn Italy is counting every death as Wuhan virus death. Sounds like possibly China in reverse.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/
And what will that do to the markets. There are a great many retirees in this country that depend on a viable market. There’s no way in hell the Government can make that many people whole again.
How will a market collapse affect the many pension funds. Many are underfunded as it is. The Government will be on the hook for those failures but those receiving the funds will get very little in comparison. It will be another segment of society that cannot recover. How many unrecoverable sectors will be the result.
People like Will Chamberlain and a few others are pushing people hard on this idea. Those who are taking that stance cannot see the ramifications with an economic collapse. For those who remember the simple gas shortage of the 70’s and the upheaval that caused. At that was just One commodity. This will be a crash “without” productivity and that spells disaster. We also have to consider global macro-economics. If our market collapses it will affect the entire globe, which puts even more pressure on the US. We are talking a second, more severe Great Depression. The most likely result would have Governments nationalizing entire industries because of a lack of solvency. No Corporation could otherwise accomplish that task. They wouldn’t have the means.
We are treading in VERY dangerous territory and too many aren’t seeing the problem. Who thinks it will stay at National Guard “assistance”. As more and more people are left with nothing it is unlikely they will just “sit at home”. It will have to revert to ‘martial law’. That will make any recovery even more difficult.
I’m having a real difficult time believing Trump would sanction such an action. Surely a person of his past experience in economic development would understand negative ramifications. He understood the Government’s mishandling in the Savings & Loan debacle. I can believe some in his Administration would push for this because they see the press fixated on masks and “tell us when will it end” questions.
Would,be a mistake. Don’t think the economy could withstand it