Trump considering enforced quarantine in NY

[choie]

US President Donald Trump has said he is considering imposing a quarantine on New York in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

"We'd like to see [it] quarantined because it's a hotspot," he told reporters. "I'm thinking about that."

He spoke as confirmed cases in the state increased to more than 52,000, with at least 728 deaths.

But the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo, said he had not discussed such measures with the president.

"I didn't speak to him about any quarantine," he told reporters shortly after he had spoken with Mr Trump by phone.

"I haven't had those conversations," he added. "I don't even know what that means."



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52079121

[FarPoint]

1. Ohhh for crying out loud!

Just more confusion and distraction from the american king ..Stop chasing the rotten bait.

[ramapo]

2. Idiotic

He pulled this shit out of his ass. Neither Cuomo or Murphy know anything about it. Enforce it how? Good way to incite (more) panic buying 😡

[Grammy23]

3. Neither does tRump know what it means.

He is just looking for a way to punish NYers and Cuomo. Oh, and to look like he is serious when he is anything but serious. Well, he is serious about his own finances. Everyone else is chopped liver.

[RKP5637]

4. The king speaks and leaves Cuomo out of the picture. What an ass. n/t

[Quemado]

5. Trump's statement on possible quarantine on NY could lead to a massive exodus and spread the virus.

It happened in China:

"About five million residents left Wuhan, before the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus epidemic and the Spring Festival holiday, mayor Zhou Xianwang revealed on January 26 at a press conference.

"Wuhan and several cities in Hubei Province shut down all inbound and outbound transportation on January 23 hoping to stop the new virus from spreading to other parts of the country. However, many had already left the city for the holiday, while others rushed out after the lockdown was announced on Wednesday night."

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-27/5-million-people-left-Wuhan-before-the-lockdown-where-did-they-go--NACCu9wItW/index.html

[Newest Reality]

6. Give Trump a break!

A dictator has to dictate. His whole modus operandi is total control in the end. El Presidente is not just about his properties or much of the facade he creates to deceive people so well.

If you spent your entire life as a confidence man, cheating and stiffing people, stepping on and crushing heads and, never having been made accountable for anything, (even now) or paid a real price, or even "worked" in the traditional sense, you would be jaded too.

What's left? Well, a decent mark is a country. How amazing. He has his fist up the butt of America and he is only looking to tear out our guts, just to prove a point and just to get the thrill of any sense of expanded power he can grasp. If you put yourself there, then there is nothing left but to seize the opportunity to be a full-blown, tin pot dictator.

He is getting closer to that and we should see more strong-arm and vindictive tactics. This is an opportunistic deal for authoritarians. That's all that motivates him, in my mind. He wants the rush and probably lives for the day.

[Alex4Martinez]

7. "It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear"

Fuck you, you fucked up ratfucker.

[Eyeball_Kid]

9. Reminds me:

A character in a movie played by Dennis Hopper once screamed, "Fuck you, you fucking fuck!"

[Sunriser13]

12. Wasn't that "Easy Rider"?

Awesome movie. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson... Stunning end...

[Alex4Martinez]

13. Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet"

[eleny]

8. Running to the head of the list of officials who have already declared sheltering at home

[GeorgeGist]

10. "I don't even know what that means."

It'll be like an internment camp for NYers.

[GusBob]

11. Look a squirrel!

Its amazing how folks fall for Trumps distractions

[greenjar_01]

14. LEADERS don't tell you what they're "THINKING ABOUT"

They make decisions and act.

ENOUGH of Trump's nonsense. Honestly. What the fuck?

"I'm thinking about this."

"Maybe this will happen."

"We'll see."

"We'll see what happens."

FUCK THIS GUY. This isn't even good authoritarianism, for fuck's sake. Pick a pose and fucking go with it. Motherfucker I hate him like poison.

[pat_k]

15. Why not the whole New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area ??

If he's gonna go for it, Go Big!!!

The MSA definition is titled the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and includes a population of 20.3 million people by 2017 Census estimates, roughly 1 in 16 Americans and nearly 7 million more than the second-place Los Angeles metropolitan area in the United States.