You know, if Trump ends social distancing, there will be a grace period of about a week...

[Girard442]

...when cases will still be flat or even declining. Of course, after the grace period ends, we'll be dealing with a pipeline full of incipient illnesses and deaths that will still happen even if restrictions are re-instated.

It's likely that about 2 out of 5 people in this country are too stupid to understand this.

[we can do it]

1. He can't end it, states can continue.

[Girard442]

4. He can hurt the effort badly by telling everyone it's unnecessary and politically motivated.

It's nearly all voluntary, after all.

[we can do it]

6. Sensible states took it upon themselves to act.

Some idiots aren’t doing what they should now.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Likely scenario:

You want to continue to self-quarantine, but Trump has told your boss "all is well."

So your boss makes it a choice whether you return to work against your best judgment and your will -- or you face being fired.

[lark]

14. You got it.

The rw is using every pretext to make this an extermination event and hurt the working class and poor to the greatest extent possible.

[Strelnikov_]

15. That is the problem

Without a State order, people will have to make a decision between a job and safety.

[bullwinkle428]

18. Without giving away too much about myself, I can confirm that this is already

starting to occur. The "new, relaxed" CDC guidelines for employers/employees will be used to justify a rapid return to the workplace. Now personally, my work requires zero interaction with the public in general, so I'm not going to complain at all when I see all of those in the fields of health care, food distribution, trucking, essential infrastructure maintenance, etc., out there every day, but I don't want to put myself or my fellow workers in any kind of enhanced risk situation.

I'm just hoping and praying that expanded test capability by leaps and bounds is scaled up ASAP.

[tulipsandroses]

3. I am grateful that many of our Govs and local leaders are strong on this

The ones that are Republican sycophants, I worry that when the infections and deaths continue, after they open up, they will skew the numbers to make Trump look good.

[mercuryblues]

13. They're doing that now

Which helps trump to say it's working. You can not be tested if you think you may have C-19. You also have to have known contact with someone who's tested positive.

My nephew works in retail and was sick. He was diagnosed with pneumonia. he was refused testing. He had no known contact with someone who tested positive or lived in a "hot zone."

Fuck this administration.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

5. U give the Thing Which Must Not Be Named too much credit. I for one intend to

keep distant until science-based people tell me I dont have to. If RW cultists want to obey their leader and get sick and die - who am I to argue with that.

[we can do it]

7. I'm with you.

[Girard442]

8. A loose cannon on a heaving deck is nothing more than a big dumb lump of iron -- still dangerous.

[Chainfire]

9. I fell the same way

I am going to continue my present lifestyle until such a time as I, not Trump, says its OK to resume normal activities.

[MFM008]

10. Only 2 of 5?

.......

[samnsara]

11. im following my governors directions not turd trump*s

...im waiting until at least Labor Day to relax..

[Maeve]

12. Fortunately, I live in Ohio

Wow...not sure I ever expected to write that while a Republican was gov! But DeWine listens to docotrs, not tRump. Anyway, I think it will be more like two weeks before the resurgence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/did-ohio-get-it-right-early-intervention-preparation-for-pandemic-may-pay-off/2020/04/09/7570bfea-7a4f-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html

[gratuitous]

16. Perhaps a little longer than a week

Our situation today has been determined by what we were doing around St. Patrick's Day. If Trump recklessly and arbitrarily "opens the economy" on May 1, we'll be seeing what a catastrophically wrong idea that is about May 18. Until then, though, Trump will strut and crow about what a brilliant, perfect solution he came up with all by himself. Then, when things turn to shit again, Trump will deny that his stupid order had anything to do with it.

[cwydro]

17. I agree.

Frightening.