READ: President Trump's Letter To Governors On New Coronavirus Guidelines

[UpInArms]

Source: NPR

President Trump said in a letter to U.S. governors on Thursday that his administration is working to publish new guidelines for state and local governments to use when making decisions about "maintaining, increasing or relaxing social distancing and other mitigation measures" for the coronavirus epidemic.

Trump said officials are gathering testing data that will suggest guidelines categorizing counties as "high risk, medium risk or low risk" for the virus. The data will drive "the next phase" of the response, he said.

Trump has indicated that he wants to adjust his 15-day social distancing guidelines so that more parts of the stalled U.S. economy can reopen by April 12. The 15th day of the original guidelines is Monday.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/822049287/read-president-trumps-letter-to-governors-on-new-coronavirus-guidelines

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Edited to add:

We have now officially passed China in number of cases

United States

Coronavirus Cases:
81,384
Deaths:
1,173
Recovered:
1,864

China

Coronavirus Cases:
81,285
Deaths:
3,287
Recovered:
74,051

Italy

Coronavirus Cases:
80,589
Deaths:
8,215
Recovered:
10,361

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Amazing how fleeting states rights is amongst the christofascists...

[Squinch]

2. What a fuckheaded imbecile.

[BarbD]

3. Is this real?

It's got to be fake. Right?

[gibraltar72]

4. I am losing my good humor.

[stillcool]

7. Thanks...guess I needed it more.

[gibraltar72]

8. We would be doomed to fight this battle over and over.

[groundloop]

5. Obviously getting pandemic response advise from economists

tRump is obviously getting advise on how best to deal with this pandemic from his economic advisers, and ignoring scientists and healthcare professionals.

WHAT A FUCKING MORON.

[Demonaut]

6. death panels

[Alex4Martinez]

9. Screw him. The states are doing everything and his 15-day plan is just bullshit.

He get's crazier each day. Someone needs to declare him unfit for duty and lock him up for his own good, and ours.

[BComplex]

12. He is so totally unfit. McCabe knew that, and tried to do something about it early on.

Boy, did they ever trash him, or what?

My guess is the governors are going to tell trump where to stuff his plans.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Worse than that, he's outbidding states on ventilators & USAF shipped 1meg nasal swabs to mystery US

... 1,000,000 nasal swabs to mystery undisclosed US company.

[WePurrsevere]

10. Hopefully every blue state governor tells him...

to shove this hooey where the sun doesn't shine.

His doing this morally and fiscally the wrong thing to do. It's like a twisted off shoot of their trickle down crap. In the long tern this will not help the economy since dead people don't pay taxes, dead people don't purchase services and products, dead people don't invest.

[TheFourthMind]

11. Trump's letter

[Corgigal]

14. Virus is control of the terms.

The faster we humans understand this fact, the smarter we will collectively behave.

[tclambert]

15. Here's what will really happen on Easter:

The United States will pass the 1 million mark in confirmed coronavirus cases, still rising at an exponential rate.

Unemployment will also grow. The stock market will not be open that day, but will continue its long slide afterwards.

Trump will insist he knew before anyone else it would get this bad and will praise the members of his staff who have died from the virus.

[UpInArms]

16. Thank you

That is probably the best case scenario

[struggle4progress]

18. Is he trying to gaze at his naval while looking from somewhere inside his lower abdomen again?