Trump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster

[applegrove]

Trump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster

SLOOOOW IT DOWN

Erin Banco, National Security Reporter

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster?ref=home

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One of the studies that the Trump administration is relying on as it moves ahead with plans to reopen the U.S. economy, warns that even if states take the necessary steps to ease social distancing restrictions, counties across the country—both big and small—will see a significant spread of coronavirus.

The study, which was put together by PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is in the hands of top coronavirus task force officials and those working with the team, sources confirmed to The Daily Beast. It projects that if officials move too quickly and too aggressively to reopen in mid May, individual counties could witness hundreds, if not a thousand-plus, more coronavirus cases reported each day by August 1. A mere two weeks more of social distancing, the study projects, could result in substantial progress in keeping infections down—with potentially hundreds of thousands of fewer cases if the projections are conservatively expanded out to all 3,000-plus counties across the country. 

The modeling shows that those counties exist in various parts of the country, including in both urban and rural communities. In almost all cases, counties would see notably less cases per day if they waited to ease social distancing restrictions until June 1, according to the study’s projections. The model also suggests that states moving to ease restrictions should consider allowing individual counties to craft their own policies. Under the projections, one county could experience significantly different daily case numbers than others in the state—even those nearby—merely by continuing to adhere to social distancing protocols. 

“There’s going to be transmission if people stop sheltering in place,” Dr. Rubin, the director of PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in an interview. “It’s not that all [counties] are safe to reopen. Every area is extremely sensitive to the amount of distancing you’re doing. The more cautious you are the better.”

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[Aussie105]

1. Most countries agree.

Opening up needs to be done slowly and in stages. And the effect of each stage given a few weeks to materialize.

Trump though, doesn't care. Open up NOW, get the economy back on track NOW, let the corpses pile up somewhere else.
It's the election-economy thing, with a sick economy, Trump worries his reelection is in jeopardy. After all, he claimed credit for a booming economy, now he must take the consequences of an economy going backwards.

Perhaps if 65,000 little white crosses were planted on the White House lawns, he'd get the message?

No, probably not.

[procon]

2. Trump doesn't give a damn about people.

H ed kill off ten of thousands of our fellow Americans in his desperate efforts to get a quick boost in the economy prior to the election. He's staked his whole campaign on his boasts of having a great economy so he's got to get as many businesses operational as fast as possible to have any shot on winning.

He thinks he can convince the media and the people that he isn't responsible for the death count. Look at all the hapless personas and villains he has shoved out ahead of himself to take the blame. We might indeed reach that obscene body count of 150K lost souls, but Trump will never take any responsibility for killing them.

[tanyev]

3. Well that's fake news, obvs.