'Difficult decisions ahead': Donald Trump raises the prospect of LIFTING the lockdown

[slayer14]

'Difficult decisions ahead': Donald Trump raises the prospect of LIFTING the lockdown knowing people will get infected because 'we can't go on like this' and 'the cure cannot be worse than the disease'

• The president's words during his daily briefing Saturday raises the prospect of reopening businesses soon
• 'We have to get back to work. We don't want to be doing this for months and months and months', he said
• Trump said that 'at a certain point some hard decisions are going to have to be made' in terms of lockdown
• He also reportedly told NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that the football season will still begin in September in a conference call on Saturday as the president claimed we 'have to open our country again'
• But Dr Birx warned to avoid going to the grocery store or the pharmacy unless it is essential for two weeks
• Cases of COVID-19 have increased by more than 100,000 in the past three days; the death toll tops 8,500
• 'This will be probably the toughest week. There will be a lot of death', Trump told reporters on Saturday

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189041/Trump-raises-prospect-lifting-lockdown-knowing-people-infected.html

[cincinnatikid513]

guy cares more about money than lives

[5mike5]

Saloon

[SBR_Guest_Pro]

players talk

[SBR_Guest_Pro]

not good to reopen so soon. Hopefully by June 1st but shouldn't be before that

[Booya711]

I agree with this 100%...all you guys that want it to stay shut down will be the same ones begging him for money....

[hostile takeover]

guy cares more about money than lives

kid cares more about Communism than Freedom

[GUMMO77]

Sadly, doing this right now would be terrible. We're in a f'ukd up situation. I'm lucky I don't need the money, but I have no idea what people are doing to do when they have nothing coming in at all.

[vitterd]

I agree with this 100%...all you guys that want it to stay shut down will be the same ones begging him for money....

Begging him for money? It’s not his money. Him and his grifter kids have ripped of the taxpayer for years. Bunch of criminal thieves

[Emily_Haines]

He nailed that back to work on Easter Sunday. Why would anyone doubt this?

[Biff41]

Sadly, doing this right now would be terrible. We're in a f'ukd up situation. I'm lucky I don't need the money, but I have no idea what people are doing to do when they have nothing coming in at all.

Shutdown of businesses and social distancing were based on extreme estimates that there would be no natural immunity and millions would die. Asia countries are in remission. Death numbers are sad but not worse than what happens in a heavy flu season. Economist did article in W.S. Jounal that worldwide recession caused by shutting down businesses over flu panic can cause large numbers to also experience suffering and death.

[capitalist pig]

As a Trump supporter, Im disappointed that he isnt listening and doing more of what his medical experts are telling him, it seems to me its important to give it the month of April to see if this lets up, like the experts are suggesting. At this point, staying closed down till May 1 and then re evaluating isnt going to be the end of the world, opening up everything to soon, could be the end of the country as we know it, jmo

later

[Bluehorseshoe]

Testing is the key.

The people who have an immunity can go back to work the next day.

[floki]

[themike78]

Sadly, doing this right now would be terrible. We're in a f'ukd up situation. I'm lucky I don't need the money, but I have no idea what people are doing to do when they have nothing coming in at all.

Unemployment checks. Most people will be getting more in unemployment than their regular jobs. Extra $600 a week. They should be glad they got laid off.

[themike78]

Thank God it isn't 2014. Right? We have a true leader now.

[pologq]

we need the rapid test first and then the antibody test before we consider this otherwise this could become very bad very quickly and eliminate any progress made.

can't shut things down one a week and 6 days later say we need to reopen again. it is like a kid who just changes their mind with no facts. he needs to listen to the md's. april is already lost. let's see where we are at as the month ends.

[pimike]

we need the rapid test first and then the antibody test before we consider this otherwise this could become very bad very quickly and eliminate any progress made.

can't shut things down one a week and 6 days later say we need to reopen again. it is like a kid who just changes their mind with no facts. he needs to listen to the md's. april is already lost. let's see where we are at as the month ends.

Agree

[Demonata]

Unemployment checks. Most people will be getting more in unemployment than their regular jobs. Extra $600 a week. They should be glad they got laid off.

Yeah makes me feel sick working 15 hours and getting unemployment since my hours got cut but I'm making more money so I almost want this to stay shit down a few more months.

[jjgold]

May 1 we re open

[Brock Landers]

May 1 we re open

No fuckin chance in hell pal

[Wabashwonders]

As a Trump supporter, Im disappointed that he isnt listening and doing more of what his medical experts are telling him, it seems to me its important to give it the month of April to see if this lets up, like the experts are suggesting. At this point, staying closed down till May 1 and then re evaluating isnt going to be the end of the world, opening up everything to soon, could be the end of the country as we know it, jmo

later

Agree 100%. There is a reason a more than $2T stimulus package was just passed. We did that to get us through a period of time and then re-evaluate the situation. It sounds to me like there is no kind of plan here at all. One day we want to open at Easter, then we stay closed til May 1, and now we want to open real soon again! Make a plan and stick to it.

[mjsuax13]

Agree 100%. There is a reason a more than $2T stimulus package was just passed. We did that to get us through a period of time and then re-evaluate the situation. It sounds to me like there is no kind of plan here at all. One day we want to open at Easter, then we stay closed til May 1, and now we want to open real soon again! Make a plan and stick to it.

Zero plan. Just wake up daily and tweet as he goes.