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Trump Says Country Will Ride Out Any Second Wave
May 21, 2020 at 7:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/21/trump-says-country-will-ride-out-any-second-wave/
"SNIP......
President Trump says he wont support shutting down the country of a possible second wave of coronavirus cases develops, NBC News reports.
Said Trump: People say thats a very distinct possibility. Its standard. And were gonna put out the fires. Were not gonna close the country.
......SNIP"
paleotn
(17,931 posts)incompetently, badly, stupidly.
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)ecstatic
(32,712 posts)Don't they understand that their neck is on the line too?
Initech
(100,081 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Thats up to the states.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)And if the people don't care for what the states say..then fuck them too...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)As a matter of fact he tried his best to keep it from happening.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)If the ground opened up and swallowed every single Trump, by birth or marriage, the world would be the better for it.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Nearly 80% of the economy is fully functioning.
This is riding it out, and we've got 40 million unemployed, an inflated market down 15%, the largest deficit in history, & 100k dead.
Riding it out less strictly will make it worse, including on the markets.
Economy is 70% consumption. Dead people don't buy food, pharma, cars, iPhones, etc. Economy shrinks, investors freak out, nobody happy.
Opening up is not the cure to what ails them, they think it is!
applegrove
(118,696 posts)don't need the domestic market anymore.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)...and their "world" will fall again.
Besides they're too dumb to notice that this is about where the markets should have been.
Soft cash positions, low inventory carrying, increased debt:equity, was funding profits.
The markets were rising at 4% more than macroeconomic conditions suggested.
The crash to 18k was the virus. The market simply rose to a reasonable equilibrium.
If it falls again because too many dead contracts C there will be no bounce to this equilibrium. Equilibrium will be a much lower number.
Notice how they don't talk about the markets when they go down? Notice how they don't mention it's down 16.4% from it's high? Yeah, me too!
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)What second wave are you talking about Don? You said the first one was a hoax. So how does one "ride out" a hoax for the second time when the first one never happened. You seem a tad confused.
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)By then Biden will be in the oval so not your concern.
malaise
(269,056 posts)That is all
tblue37
(65,408 posts)ananda
(28,866 posts)nt
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Trump might be kicked to the curb at this timing.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)If the Governors don't take action, people will isolate themselves. Nobody in their right mind is going to sacrifice themselves for "his" economy.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)And it drives him absolutely crazy - tin pot dictator.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Because I've saved up, stocked up for my family. We socked it away when times were better for that rainy day. If MAGAts didn't and it sounds like they didn't, good luck to them?
MR. ELECTABLE
(218 posts)I'm pretty damn sure that a wave you need to actually see numbers *DECREASE*!
We have not seen a decrease in cases, only a *DECELERATION* in the growth rate!
The first wave hasn't even crested yet... Red Don wants to ride this surf board straight to hell!