Some Trump allies are getting cold feet
, suggesting that the efforts to contain it were more harmful than the virus itself. “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” Trump tweeted just before midnight Sunday, borrowing a line from Fox News that he’s since made his own. He has since doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on the talking point,that “people want to get back to work” and suggesting Americans should “pack” churches on Easter—just over two weeks away.
This, of course, is a completely arbitrary deadline. “I just thought it was a beautiful timeline,” he said this week when asked how he arrived at that date. But he appears unwilling, so far, to budge. “The country wants to get back to work,” TrumpWednesday. “Our country was built to get back to work. We don’t have the —a country where they say, ‘Hey, let’s close it down for two years.’ We can’t do that. It’s not our country.
No one has suggested that the U.S. will be entirely shut down for two years, but public health experts have made clear that about a month of recommended social distancing and a patchwork of state- and municipal government-imposed lockdowns will not be enough to blunt the spread of the virus. “I think what the president was trying to do, he was making an aspirational projection to give people some hope,” Dr.on the plan to have the economy “raring to go” in a matter of weeks.
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