They Tell Us Don't Panic - Yet They Want To Shut Down Congress.....

[global1]

hmmmmmm....

Ya think we should start to panic?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Who is "they?" NT

[global1]

2. Trump, Pence And His Crew.....nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Where and when did "they" say that? What authority will "they" invoke? NT

[rso]

3. Congress

Moscow Mitch can shut down the Senate, but Nancy Pelosi decides whether the House shuts down.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. too many of the GOP Senate caucus at CPAC eh...

[Javaman]

6. coming attraction of november. nt

[Ilsa]

7. I think they 25% is over age 70.

And another big percentage is over 60. No wonder they want to go into quarantine.

Sometimes I think we should have a mandatory retirement age so we get fresh thinkers voted in. 75, maybe?

[Hortensis]

8. :) I think we should trash the word panic.

It's not really that whole populations will hurt themselves and others by running screaming down the streets in their bare feet, jumping out of windows, racing blindly into fires, etc. It's that some may decide pandemic disease is a sensible reason to keep their children home and not to go to work.

As for congress, it's a gathering of people whose work exposes them to large numbers of people from all over. I'd say a competent government would have sent them to work from semi-isolation already.

[Kaleva]

9. Shutting down or keeping open Congress has no effect on my preparations

[defacto7]

10. Think of all the fundraising and media campaigning they can do

at home.

[monmouth4]

11. Well, let's face it, they don't do a damned thing anyway so...n/t