By easter
Apparently Trump is on Fox right now, talking dangerous bollocks. Yamiche Alcindor is taking notes for us so that we don’t have to watch.
President Trump is now answering questions live on Fox News.
Reminder: There is no White House briefing scheduled today so this is the only way to hear from Trump today on camera.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 24, 2020
Pres Trump on easing coronavirus guidelines: "Our country…It's is not built to shutdown…Our ppl are full of vim & vigor, they don't want to be locked into a house or an apartment or some space…You can destroy our country…by closing it down…We have to get back to work."
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 24, 2020
President has said at least three in the last 10 minutes: "We have to get back to work."
Health officials, along with Trump's GOP allies like @Liz_Cheney & @LindseyGrahamSC, have said very clearly that social distancing for wks, maybe months is key to stopping the virus spread.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 24, 2020
Pres Trump: "You are going to lose a number of people to the flu. But you are going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You're going to lose people. You are going to have suicides by the thousands…You're going to have instability."
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 24, 2020
"I'd love to have it open by Easter," President Trump just said on easing coronavirus guidelines.
Easter is Sunday, April 12, 2020.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 24, 2020
More American exceptionalism bullshit. You think Americans don’t like to be shut up inside? Then you’ve never been to Spain. Most people in Spain live in small apartments (by US standards, at least), and their favorite activity is strolling around or going to crowded bars and cafes and restaurants, but now they’re shut in at home and trying to make the best of it. Judging from my wife’s relatives, at least, they’re accepting the terrible inconvenience with humor because they know what the alternative would be (things are bad enough as it is).
And every night at 10 (i.e., around dinnertime) they go out on their balconies to give all the health care workers an ovation.
Suicides! WTF?
Projection?
If only….
I hope when Trump makes noises about getting America back to work around Easter time, that someone up there on that podium is willing to interrupt him and contradict him to his face in real time. Trump would be directly responsible for even more deaths, because there are enough idiots out there who would follow his delusional hopes that it would reignite the contagion.
To be honest, an uptick in suicides is something I’ve imagined as a possible result. Business close down with no end in sight, the government does nothing whatsoever to help anyone, people can’t get food or other necessities, and they kill themselves in despair.
But I’m not the president of the United States, someone in a strong position to help people endure the shutdown.
He stole that from the trans playbook.