Fauci says states with major outbreaks should 'seriously look at shutting down' again

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease official, is advising that some states seriously consider “shutting down” again if they are facing major resurgences of the virus — a warning that conflicts with President Trump’s push to reopen the country as quickly as possible.

“I think any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down,” Fauci said Wednesday. “It’s not for me to say, because each state is different.”



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/09/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I keep saying this is just the beginning...What I get a kick out of is if putin had not stolen

the election we would have 1800 deaths and 85,000 infections, which is 6 times what S Korea has as they have 50 million population.

Mass murder by the GOP and we still cant seem to do shit about it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. That's assuming we could have shut down the entire country

as quickly and efficiently as South Korea did. Which in all honesty, probably wouldn't have happened. There would still have been the Republican states who would have been slow to shut down, individuals who would still have refused to wear masks or social distance. And the claim that the virus is simply a hoax would have been even louder, because so few people would have been infected.

Never underestimate the ignorance of most people.

[IronLionZion]

12. Some GOPers got fabulously wealthy from insider trading and sweet contracts

especially new companies who have 0 experience in providing the product or service they were paid for, and still haven't delivered it.

Putting profit over people has yielded deadly results while some dumbass somewhere is claiming socialist countries ration health care.

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. And as Rachel Maddow just tweeted, it is "Off like a Rocket and NO END to it"

Which i knew and we knew months ago, this would happen.

GOP are murderers, they can turn this around TODAY and they wont remove the traitor who is killing us.

Wow, talk about partisanship.

[IronLionZion]

17. They're getting tons of conservative federal judges approved

and lots of nice stimulus dollars. So why would they stop that gravy train just because Americans are dying? Priorities!

[aggiesal]

2. Duh! n/t

[Champp]

3. Republicans will label this FAKE news

and go back to encouraging Americans to get sick and die so their whiney, golf-shoe A-hole-in-Chief can continue to fantasize that the "virus will just disappear one day."

[ancianita]

9. That's not what polls show. Polls are showing that reality is piercing their bubble.

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. Good, now how do we stop putin from shutting down everything so we cant vote or count

votes etc.

Sure hope someone is preparing for that.

[ancianita]

18. Good question. The postal system can do it, given cyber vulnerabilities of over 30 states.

Ballotpedia and the ACLU sites have information on their plans to keep voters up-to-date on state changes to voting.

https://ballotpedia.org/Changes_to_election_dates,_procedures,_and_administration_in_response_to_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020


Alot of how this election will work has to come from voters. Across the country, COVID-19 has people paying more attention and taking more social responsibility; so that could be a change of mindset that could lead them to being more proactive about their voting.

The sicker and more impoverished they are because of the trump depression, the more they could be negatively motivated to vote. There's also help for them. Thing is, they have to want to productively spend their time to use the help that's there. We'll have to keep an eye on state actions, use social media to spread information for registered non-voters, at the very least.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/voting-rights/

It's a big country where a lot has gone wrong, and so the hope is that enough Americans are ready to do their part to turn this ship around, because they've learned that, otherwise, no one is coming for them, except in the destructive sense.

[Initech]

5. I've been saying I am fearful that we're heading back to a second shutdown.

And it will be worse. Just whatever we can do to end this nightmare!!

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. Trumpy-Boy has always been pro-death. Re-opening the economy is a boon for

the funeral industry. And re-opening schools is insurance that we'll be sending the parents of children into the viral meat-grinder. It's all good for the Sociopath-in-Chief.

He hates them all.

He hates the Democrats, he hates Republicans. He hates Independents. He hates his base. He laughs inside when he gets all of them in a closed venue and has them spreading the virus on one another, while he remains "socially distant." His base are suckers.

[dhill926]

7. we ain't seen nothin' yet...

[beachbumbob]

8. those states haven't been listening to Fauci before, no chance they are now.

let karma solve the issue

[OneCrazyDiamond]

10. I think California should shutdown again, but

that will come from Gov. Newsom. We don't need guidance from this administration. They have already proven themselves inept.

[LuckyLib]

11. "It's not for me to say" -- say it, Dr. Fauci. Thinking Americans have written off

this administration's feeble work on the pandemic. Any voice from the wilderness keeps you credible as a physician and health administrator. Buck the system. Dare to have Trump fire you!

[Maxheader]

15. Stumpy declared a national emergency to ...

build a wall..to start a trade war..Worthless bastard needs to see this national emergency and start requiring

that the public follow the cdc's rules...stay home, wear masks when out in public...no open bars, no spring

break type gatherings and no fucking church socials...Jail and $$ for the violators..Microchip the worst

offenders...keep track of their where abouts...my ho...

[SharonClark]

16. How many "shut down" in the first place?

Was it even enforceable?

We never had a shut down in Iowa, just suggestions with no enforcement.