Trump Can’t Turn the Economy Back on Without Overriding Executive Orders of 30 Governors
Update: Between March 30 and April 1, most of the last big states — TX, AZ, MD, VA, and FL — imposed stay at home orders.
Update: I’ve updated this and reposted. At least six states have added stay at home orders since Trump said he wanted to reopen the economy by Easter. This post was originally published on March 24, just before mid-day.
As noted, yesterday Trump signaled that he wants to turn the economy back on, perhaps 15 days after his original Emergency declaration on March 13 (which would mean the emergency would end on Saturday, March 28). As Ron Klain just noted, though, Trump doesn’t have that ability: Governors, not the President, have been the ones to shut things down (along with a number of mayors and corporate executives).
It will be governors, not Trump, who decide when to reopen the economy.
Over the last week, a set of governors (currently 30) have issued stay-at-home orders; another (MA) imposed a suggested stay at home declaration, and a number of cities and counties have similarly shut down. This NYT story has a great map and numbers showing how many people are affected (though without durations or governor party affiliation).
As the list below makes clear, Trump can’t turn the economy back on without finding a way to rescind the executive orders of a bunch of governors, including those of Republicans Eric Holcomb (whose order goes until April 6), Mike DeWine (whose order goes until April 6), and Jim Justice (whose order doesn’t have a termination date).
Update: Trump just said, “I would love to have the country opened up and raring to go by Easter.”
Update: This has been updated through March 27. This is the most comprehensive list of orders I’ve seen, including those closing businesses as opposed to ordering people to stay at home (though as of today it is missing a business closure from AL’s Kay Ivey).
Update, March 30: Maryland’s Larry Hogan and Virginia’s Ralph Northam, whose initial non-essential business shutdowns had stopped short of a stay-at-home order, have both now issued the latter.
Full stay-at-home orders
- Alabama (Republican Governor Kay Ivey) Imposed April 3, effective April 4.
- Alaska (Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy): Imposed March 27, effective March 28, in effect until April 11.
- Arizona (Republican Governor Doug Ducey): Imposed March 30, effective March 31, in effect until April 30. Some city flexibility on order.
- California (Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom): Imposed and effective March 19, in effect “until further notice.”
- Colorado (Democratic Governor Jared Polis): Imposed March 25, effective March 26, in effect until April 11.
- Connecticut (Democratic Governor Ned Lamont): Imposed March 20, effective March 23, effective through April 22. (Order)
- Delaware (Democratic Governor John Carney): Imposed March 22, effective March 24, in place until May 15 or public health threat eliminated. (Most recent order)
- District of Columbia (Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser): Imposed March 30, effective April 1.
- Florida (Republican Governor Rick DeSantis): Imposed April 1, effective April 3, effective until April 30.
- Georgia (Republican Governor Brian Kemp): Imposed April 2, originally effective until April 13; extended on April 8 until April 30.
- Hawaii (Democratic Governor David Ige): Imposed March 23, effective March 25, effective through April 30.
- Idaho (Republican Governor Brad Little): Imposed and effective March 25, effective 21 days (though April 15).
- Illinois (Democratic Governor JB Pritzker): Imposed March 20, effective March 21, effective until April 7. (Order)
- Indiana (Republican Governor Eric Holcomb): Imposed March 23, effective March 24, effective until April 6. (Most recent orders)
- Kansas (Democratic Governor Laura Kelly): Imposed March 28, effective March 30, effective until April 19.
- Louisiana (Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards): Imposed March 22, effective March 23, in place until April 13.
- Maryland (Republican Governor Larry Hogan): Imposed and effective March 30.
- Michigan (Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer): Imposed March 23, effective March 24, in place until April 13. (The state announcement, but not the order itself, states the order will be in place “at least” three weeks.)
- Minnesota (Democratic Governor Tim Walz): Imposed March 25, effective March 27, effective until April 10.
- Mississippi (Republican Governor Tate Reeves): Imposed April 1, effective April 3, effective until April 20.
- Missouri (Republican Governor Mike Parson): Imposed April 3, effective April 6, effective until April 24.
- Montana (Democratic Governor Steve Bullock): Imposed March 27, effective March 28, effective until April 10.
- Nevada (Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak): Imposed April 1, effective April 1, effective until April 30.
- New Hampshire (Republican Governor Chris Sununu): Imposed March 26, effective March 27, effective until May 4.
- New Jersey (Democratic Governor Phil Murphy): Imposed and effective March 21, effective until further notice.
- New Mexico (Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham): Imposed March 23, effective March 24, in place until April 10.
- New York (Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo): Imposed March 20, effective March 22, in place until April 19. (Most recent orders available here.)
- North Carolina (Democratic Governor Roy Cooper): Imposed March 27, effective March 30, effective for 30 days (until April 29).
- Ohio (Republican Governor Mike DeWine): Imposed March 22, effective March 23 in place until April 6.
- Oregon (Democratic Governor Kate Brown): Imposed and effective March 23, effective until terminated. (Order)
- Pennsylvania (Democratic Governor Tom Wolf): Imposed and effective April 1, effective until April 30.
- Rhode Island (Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo): Imposed and effective March 28, effective until April 13.
- South Carolina (Republican Governor Henry McMaster): Imposed April 6, effective April 7.
- Vermont (Republican Governor Phil Scott): Imposed March 24, effective March 25, effective until April 15.
- Virginia (Democratic Governor Northam): Imposed and effective March 30, effective until June 10.
- Washington (Democratic Governor Jay Inslee): Imposed March 23, effective March 26, effective until April 8.
- West Virginia (Republican Governor Jim Justice): Imposed March 23, effective March 24, effective until terminated. (Order)
- Wisconsin (Democratic Governor Tony Evers): Imposed March 23, effective March 25, effective until April 24.
However, Trump can posture himself as a “wartime” president, bone spurs and all and blame the Ds for anything that goes wrong. which just might work for re-election. After all, 54% in a poll said the WH was doing a good job. Sheesh.
It would be VERY WEAK to call himself a “War time President” and not to make use of his power wrt: Defense Production Act.
I have exactly the opposite opinion on this. He’s been a “war time President” since the moment he was sworn in, for whatever the hell it’s worth. We’re in two “forever wars” in the Middle East. We don’t hear much about them these days, because the rest of the country has long since “moved on”, and I haven’t heard anything about them in the last several months. My guess is that they’ve both gone from “bad but stable” to “much worse and much more volatile”.
Wait until the press starts showing all the body bags
Just saw a picture in Italy which Vanity Fair has up. It’s a street full of army trucks lined up at a hospital waiting for the nightly load of bodies
The article goes on to strike out at Republicans who carried on like lunatics about death panels. The article points out Italy has more hospitals and equipment than the USA yet the doctors in the ERs have to decide who gets treatment and who doesn’t
Posted a pic of Italian military trucks this past Saturday. They’re only now beginning to slow after weeks of lockdown they didn’t initially take seriously.
That’s us this next week. Italy warned us.
There are also a bunch of federal courts which are either closed or operating under various restrictions, including SCOTUS itself.
Somehow, I don’t think John Roberts and his judicial branch colleagues are going to say “OK, let’s open everything back up again” just because Trump says to do so.
They are lickspittles. They will.
I bet that the last thing Roberts wants to do is rule on Trump’s tax returns before the election. Arguments on that case were scheduled for the end of the month and are now delayed indefinitely. Now Trump, on the other hand, probably wants his lackeys to rule in his favor asap.
Agreed
The administration is playing a losing hand and the only way with their limited abilities to win would be to bluff the virus into submission.
Instead we get nonsense about it will get better in the summer and to watch out for the fall. or that the new cases will be a bell shaped curve.
When the first community transmission virus was reported here there was a run on TP. Of course todayls the lines wrapped around grocery stores make that look normal. Restaurant business went off a cliff before it was shut down. Air travel went off a cliff without any mandates. Hotels business went off a cliff. That part of the economy is not coming back until the virus is defeated.
Tragic decisions are non partisan. People in call centers with 3 foot spacings were incubators that could have been avoided. Just one example.
Hola, I’d like to pass on what a nurse in Sarasota FL told me yesterday:
1) The swabs they’re using to test for Covid-19 have a 40% failure rate.
2) They don’t have enough masks.
The most accurate place to swab for COVID-19 is inside the lungs. I suspect that’s why nasal/throat swabs aren’t as effective.
My neighbor said (yeah I know) that her sister in law works in the surgical unit of a local hospital and her hours are getting cut.
I would assume that initially, they would limit the hospital staff that cares for covid -19 patients and then it would be all hands on deck.
Someone tell me I am right?
Do I need to go down there and tell them that they need these nurses to help them prepare?
Do I need to go down and give them a list of things they could be doing?
Are these hospitals worried about their bottom lines?
If so, WTF?
Bottom line. Currently in hospital in Nanaimo,BC,Canada
6 days so far. Fractured leg—surgery etc
They’ve been ramping up since before I got here. Protocol being raised each day. Elective surgery cancelled. OR nurses now on floor. Patients being sent home. Supplies under lock and key. Recently retired docs and nurses asked to come back to work
In the city of Vancouver has turned the civic Queen Elizabeth theatre into a triage centre so people go there first for testing etc and then will be sent elsewhere. The theatre is in the downtown core with huge under ground parking and elevators
They are also ramping up care for doctors and nurses children. Early childhood educators are being advised where they will be seconded
A bunch of mayors have also shut things down. Can a governor overturn a mayor’s order? Even in Texas, there are a bunch of those in place.
Some of them may try – especially in Texas.
Yep, our shutdown was a joint mandate by the city and county. Went into effect at midnight last night.
Had the students already been kicked out?
Not formally. They had been strongly encouraged to go home, but the admin has held off on a full shutdown because the ones who live overseas have nowhere to go. Hard to imagine there won’t be a more complete campus lockdown soon with some sort of accommodation for them.
Same in Chicago.
I THINK a state would have to pass specific legislation that overturns an ordinance issued by a city.
How hard or easy that would be to accomplish depends on the states constitution.
There are a lot of stories talking about situations in Texas and it looks like most of the time the states has been winning.
https://www.nlc.org/sites/default/files/2017-03/NLC-SML%20Preemption%20Report%202017-pages.pdf
All of it will be shot to hell anyway if Trump declares America has beaten the virus.
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This is already a tool well-known by the right wing.
ALEC has used state legislatures to overturn or prohibit certain kinds of local ordinances they don’t like. For example, in Missouri, as both St. Louis and KC were on the verge of raising the minimum wage, ALEC got the legislature to prohibit any local ordinances that put it higher than the state’s (laughably low) minimum wage.
Those favorable polls are taken at the beginning of the disaster that is going to unfold. Once the deniers are dying and their elders are dying, Trump’s BS will fade and the real people will have a say on what they have seen. BS won’t save Trump from a big drop in favorability. Then we see how strong the cult is and if it can keep him above 30%
Something isn’t right
The March 18-19 IPOS poll that gives Trump 55% approval also shows that 41% of the people answering the survey were unemployed and 28% had not cancelled or postponed any event or activities on a pretty representative list.
Where did they find THAT slice of America?
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2020-03/topline-abc-news-coronavirus-032020.pdf
Diners in Pennsyvlania and Iowa?
LOL you nailed it!
Have you cancelled r postponed plans to go out for a meal?
Donald Trump thinks if he can invoke a “wartime” persona, he will acquire the aura of a Winston Churchill, defiant and unyielding in the face of great odds. He wants to be rallied around and thanked worshipfully. And I will bet you his core supporters will buy it. And the evangelicals will bury the dead as martyrs to the cause of the faith, and declare the failures the result of having too little of it. They always do.
Trump and Co. want us to go back to work as though we are all Rosie-the-Riveter. I would like to believe the voting public will turn on him, but there is much room for doubt. “You don’t change horses in the middle of the stream”. You heard that when George Bush (Shrub) was running for his second term, only they substituted “president” for horses and “war” for stream. These folks out there saying “you need to get behind the president and help send a unifying message”—-that is what they are alluding to. That is only meaning of “together” for them. And they are getting louder.
I do not hear the voice of reason out in the public where I live. Soon enough the scientists and the rational are going to be called traitors. I live in a state that has not declared a full lock-down. It is politically divided between the governor and the legislature. And I work for a state university which has a medical school adjacent a regional hospital. We’re going to wait until March 31 to “revisit” the existing recommendations to maintain social distance and work remotely. I am willing to bet they will all agree to postpone further consideration until after April 15. They will be smart enough not to say it that way, but they will not advocate for a lock-down.
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Funny thing, Churchill more or less won the war, and then… he lost the 1945 election.
The lesson there (Brits, please correct me if mistaken) is that the common striving/common good the war effort raised was hostile to a Tory in peacetime. Or words to that effect.
As I heard my grandfather say when I was just a wee nipper, people also felt that they were owed something for all their sacrifices, which actually went back to the 1920s and -30s when many people really had to struggle to exist within a class-dominated system. Grandpa didn’t hate Churchill, but he thought of him as a Tory and an imperialist, and he remembered his various positions from before the war. The publication of the Beveridge Report also had a huge impact. Many voters, like Grandpa, felt that while Churchill was exactly the leader needed during a war, he and the Tories would be ill-suited to a peace-time role, particularly if the Beveridge Report was to become policy.
Horses midstream has some comfort to it.
Watching hearses might evoke hard rational thought and realizations.
Depends on the level of delusion.
Churchill was a leader and a master of the English language:
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
The contrast with Trump is mind boggling.
It’s probably worth remembering that Churchill’s Nobel Prize was for literature. It’s hard for me to see Trump winning that one.
how strong the cult is…hope they are really super strong for Trump…He is so ignorant he is going to kill off a good part of his racist base; he is defeating himself and doesn’t know it.
And: is this the beginning of the end of the 30-40 year run for the fundamentalist Christians ? Liberty U and Jerry F. who don’t believe in anything but their personal Santa Klaus are calling students back, opening again. Koch ALEC ? etc etc
And the crazies at FOXX are helping themselves to early retirement too.
Be thankful you all: we couldn’t do it without them. Of course, Trump is so terrible. His actions will kill off way more than necessary to flatten the curve.
Be Safe; Shelter in Place my brothers and sister.
Falwell’s bluster reminds me of a joke popular among mainstream Christians that Seems apropos-
During a flood a man prays to God to deliver him. As the water begins to rise a police cruiser comes by and asks if he wants to be evacuated. He says, “No. God’s going to deliver me.”
The water continues to rise. A National Guard high water vehicle stops by and asks if he wants to leave. Again he refuses “I trust in God.”
The floodwaters rise again. The Cajun Navy now arrives in a boat. He turns them down. “God will save me”, he says.
The water rises so high that he’s standing on his roof. A Coast Guard helicopter swoops in. Again he refuses. “My help is the Lord.”
Shortly thereafter, the torrent carries him away and he drowns. Upon reaching Heaven he confronts God. “Why didn’t you rescue me?”
God replies, “Who do you think sent the police, the National Guard, the Cajun Navy, and the Coast Guard?”
I know it doesn’t work this way, but Trump declaring an arbitrary “all clear” by Easter seems criminally liable / negligent.
At least these days if he fired a shot down 5th Ave there would be no one on the receiving end.
I think he’s being pushed by the hotel/travel people and by the conservative religious “leaders” who have his ear – he’s talking about having the churches full for Easter. (A great way to kill off more people!)
Jerry Falwell Jr is pushing against VA state officials who have ordered no gatherings of more than 10 people. Falwell is keeping Liberty University open by going to online classes, but he’s not closing the dorms and is requiring faculty to (a) teach from their offices (not homes) and to hold in-person office hours face to face meetings with students. This has not gone down well with at least some of the faculty, staff, and students, but the power of Falwell over them all limits the amount of public criticism and blowback.
Most of those young people haven’t seen their friends more or less die as they choke to death because their lungs aren’t working. Once they do they’ll have another tune
By hotel people, you mean Eric, Don Jr, and Ivanka, right?
Florida, Las Vegas, the cruise lines, Boeing….
Cruising.
I gotta ask through my laughter – I must be sick – or is that an Al Pacino movie reference?
Nope! It was either a Naked Gun movie or a Police Squad television episode. But the woman is Priscilla Presley.
Times are so strange, I may have to go dig out Lisa Marie’s first CD, weirdly rather good.
Lisa was good in Fury Road as well.
Speaking of, “Lisa Marie Presley”, I can find no such credit.
“It’ll be a Resurrection”
You people are nuts. I live in s. Jersey 6 cases of virus none in last 4 days. Its all crap
So South Jersey, huh? And no new confirmed cases, meaning nobody had a test run OR that any test produced a positive reading, is that what you’re claiming with a dearth of words?
Here’s the number of deaths posted in obituaries in the Courier-Post, newspaper for South Jersey.
2016 — 32
2017 — 30
2018 — 36
2019 — 40
2020 — 59
The average number of deaths reflected for the same period, March 26 for four years running, 2016-2019, was 34.5 obituaries.
Gee, I wonder why March 26, 2020 had a nearly 70% spike in obituaries posted?
Buh-bye, come back when you can produced a reasoned argument with data and citations.
Here’s a perfect photo for their ad campaign:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/03/13/three-things-good-family-news-bad-covid-19-news/#comment-832474
“Oh come on man….”
Even Trump wouldn’t try to steal the spotlight on Jesus’s big day.
Trump has been the premier Mammonist in the world for . . . at least several years.
And Trump came perilously close to committing black letter blasphemy with his supposedly sarcastic claim upon being The Chosen One.
What’s more, Trump didn’t say anything about being The Second Coming–just The Chosen One.
Thank you. Perfect word
mam·mon | \ ˈma-mən \
Definition of mammon
material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence
you cannot serve God and mammon
— Matthew 6:24 (Revised Standard Version)
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Thank you, Rayne!
Yeah, fuck fixing that crap. Anybody that cites Claude Taylor is an idiot.
Why not just cite Louise Mensch? Get out of here. And, yes, I very much mean that.
Sorry, Bmaz, I have never heard of Claude Taylor. The video actually has nothing to do with him. I just copied and pasted from another website because it is hilarious.
This is hillariously perfect!
Here’s the original from the comedian:
https://twitter.com/JLCauvin/status/1242515702688485376
2:16 PM · Mar 24, 2020
Look at his MAGA hat – it’s really an AGAM hat. It says:
“niaga taerg acirema ekam”. Best hat I’ve seen since the “Lock Him Up” ones…
Only a fool understates what our own Stalin can do. Kill millions unnecessarily to get business (albeit with a reduced consumer base) going sooner, delay the election, refuse to leave office…
And Wall Street’s up to day because POTUS’ SecTreasury, scummy as he is, is smart enough that dealing with the Party of Trump won’t, shall we say, result in anything good; that is, he realizes handouts to business with little more and few crumbs to the people isn’t enough. So Wall Street is excited AF that there’s likely to be a deal soon because Mnuchin’s dealing with the Dems instead of Moscow Mitch.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/restart-the-economy-is-a-prayer-to-a-conservative-god-who-demands-human-sacrifice/
By Stephen Young, Religion Dispatches
March 24, 2020
Excerpt:
“A simple translation of “restart the economy” suggests itself: the economy or the free market is God. It rules over and defines reality. And this God demands human sacrifice to rescue us from Coronavirus.”
Trump demands the sacrifice and his followers are waiting patiently to see the toll paid by others demise.
Reminds me of the old joke mocking consent, “Don’t!…….stop!
Don’t. Stop.
Don’t stop.
Ah yes, the old Fleetwood Mac song:
“Don’t Stop Thinkin’ about the Few Churls”
a reader at TPM writes:
People who think that it won’t be anyone in THEIR family or THEIR friends, because they’re all good people (and vote the right way). People who have been taught over the last 40 years that government is a problem, that feelings and instinct are more reliable than experts, that science is wrong because it doesn’t agree with the feelings and instincts (and their preachers).
The virus doesn’t ask questions. It doesn’t read or watch TV. It doesn’t care about you: you’re just a food source and an incubator.
Quote from a great movie, apply as needed: “Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”
Can “Soylent Green” be very far behind? After all, the movie is set in the year 2022.
I think Target must be out of Green, but they’ve got plenty of other flavors of Soylent.
Can Elysium be far behind?
A sadly under-rated film.
1] This thread from 10 days ago, was retweeted at the time by Aaron Weisburd:
https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1238854136818331649
11:46 AM · Mar 14, 2020
2] https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1240316136169725952
12:36 PM · Mar 18, 2020
How about they just process that bullshit before they spray it around thinking people?
What part of “it will break our healthcare system” do they not understand?
Trump isn’t going to let them all bunk with him at Mar-a-lag-o with him and his chosen until this thing passes.
I heard someone on the radio this morning say that people should go back to work when these CEO’s that are lobbying Trump to blow off this whole mitigation strategy start taking the subway to work or take their grandparents on a Walmart run
Who the hell is going to fix their kid’s appendix when it’s bursts? Who is going to come rescue them from a burning building if the whole fire department is out sick?
Who is going to work on taking away a women’s right to choose if too many of the old geezers in congress have kicked it? My god! what if Mitch dies?
If they don’t care about being advocates for the certain death of their friends, neighbors and co-workers, at a minimum someone needs to make these fools go get a piece of paper and spend five minutes thinking and writing down what can and will happen downstream if we allow highly contagious virus that will requires a two week hospital stay for 20% of the people that get it.
Tell them to grab a calculator too, they won’t be able to do the math in their heads.
Vicks asks, “What part of ‘it will break our healthcare system’ do they not understand?”
The part where ‘they’ no longer hurl those words in other people’s faces.
Only 2% of Americans dead because of Trump’s reckless response to Covid-19? That’s 6.6 million people. The six million figure has awkward historical analogies. So I’ll stick with what would a Covid-19 Memorial for that many people look like.
If you carved their names on the sides of the Washington Monument, you would need to build two more to hold them all. If you built a Covid-19 Memorial along the lines of the Vietnam Memorial, which holds 58,000 names, you would need 114 of them. Or one memorial with walls 2.6 miles long, over five miles in total. At a brisk walk, you could do it in just over an hour – if you didn’t stop to cry or read the names.
For comparison, the distance from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial is less than two miles, and you pass the Washington Monument, the Reflecting Pool, and the Vietnam Memorial along the way. To walk the length of the Covid-19 Memorial once, you would pass them three times. As he endlessly repeats, Donald Trump sets records wherever he goes.
3,000,000 million US soldiers served in Vietnam and 58,000 died there. That’s what, about 2% mortality? No bid deal. Nobody would ever affect bone spurs to avoid that, would they?
About what it was during the Civil War – from the war alone. (Population about 32 million, 600k dead.)
No at the time i wrote that the figures were 2% of those who contracted the virus died. That # will go down because we are rationing the tests, and only testing those that are sick enough to qualify.
My point was that 20% of people that contract the virus require an average of a two week hospital stay, and that our federal “leaders” are ignoring the potential for “collateral damage” being as bad of worse than the virus.
Can you imagine the terror of being a pregnant woman right now?
Vermont’s locked down now.
I’m in DeKalb County GA. A shutdown order for the county was put in place 12:01 am today March 24. The EO continues until revoked or amended by subsequent EO. It includes a lot of Whereas.. language, much like I’ve seen elsewhere.
But, a lengthy section emphasizes that the CDC is in DeKalb Country, its importance, blah blah. Be interesting to see if Trump tries to mess with DeKalb Co.
https://www.dekalbcountyga.gov/sites/default/files/users/user715/DeKalb%20COVID-19%20Executive%20Order.pdf
I can open this, not sure others can.
Niece and her family, including a very small baby, are in Decatur.
Another good read from Lawfare on the same subject: https://www.lawfareblog.com/can-federal-government-override-state-government-rules-social-distancing-promote-economy
This is a good article. But there is a scenario it does not consider. What if someone’s boss decides that Trump is right and, contrary to a governor’s EO, employees have to come to work or be fired? They might sue, but it would seem that this puts the legal burden on people who cannot afford to bear it.
Hoping that’s a negotiating chip with Congress, and states may have to implement their own restrictions to protect the public from employees forced by employers to return to work too soon or while ill.
Go to work and chance dying. Not me. The money isn’t worth it. On the other hand person rtw becomes ill thinks they’re going to die finds the gun they ought to not really own and goes postal at the home of their least favourite politician
A community with a lot of unhappy people who own guns what could possibly go wrong
Lee Harvey Oswald
This is from Monday in New Jersey:
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1242403815569178626
6:52 AM · Mar 24, 2020
VIDEO
For the quote, scroll down at this link:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-live-updates-japan-begin-quarantining-visitors-us/story?id=69742183
An interesting wrinkle from the prosecutorial perspective…County Prosecutors in New Jersey are appointed by the Governor for a term of five years, and must be affirmed by the State Senate. They are not elected to office, as with equivalent positions in other states.
I am having a hard time imaging a legitimate company demanding employees come back to work.
My worry is that the devil that is Donald Trump will create incentives that will make it difficult for the greedy and the desperate to resist.
There is so much to watch with this ass-h*le, now I have to check to see if Trump has replaced the higher ups in OSHA with toadies yet.
There’s an outside chance that Trump is going to try to convince people that the US economy would have miraculously recovered if only “those crazy socialists in the Democratic party” had gone back to work when Trump told them to go back to work.
It will not be true. Therefore, FOX News will proclaim that it must be true. And Trump’s worshippers will believe it to be true to the full depth of the crow’s feet in the corners of their squinting eyes, while they feverishly pray for “Four More Years.”
P. S. Trump should’ve gone with “Green Grass And High Tides Forever” for his 2016 campaign theme song instead of . . . you know . . . the one he did run with. How’s that tune go? It’s not the one about satisfaction. No. It was the other one.
Just in case anyone needs a reminder.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/outlaws/greengrasshightides.html
Thanks Mitch. Now for the live 78 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIaS_vYIQ_A
One of my Favs.
I think this will mimic the way that Bush was able to use PR and clan loyalty to prop up support for the Iraq war.
But I also think it is going to turn sour for Trump much, much faster than it did for Bush.
Agree. Never liked the man’s politics but never really disliked him the way I do Trump
Baby Chump HAS to get the economy going again to get his commissions on the situation .
Nah, you gotta use the Baby Shark song.
Baby Trump
Doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Baby Trump
Doo doo, doo doo doo doo…
Isn’t it the case that you people in the USA have literally thousands of evangelical pastors who are telling their congregations they are immune to COVID19 because God is protecting them and the rapture is coming? Videos are out there of pastors saying this and asking their congregations to shake hands, hug and even kiss each other? Somehow I think their nutjob rapture isn’t going to turn out as they expect – they will kill themselves and many many more. The USA aint gonna do well in this pandemic because of a directly associated epidemic of STUPID2020
Exactly, sir or madam; this is the great culling self-inflicted due to the belief in Santa Klaus and the rejection of reason.
OH, BTW: thank you. Sorry, we have here in the USA a lot…A LOT of stupid people sadly not all their fault as our education systems have been poorly managed by the same.
I’ve read about assemblies of Muslims in Sulawesi and in other countries thinking the same thing. It’s not limited to any one religion or country.
heard that on the news. Perhaps they’ll stop when they find out Muslims in many places are not going to Mosque or if they are they’re keeping 6ft away with only a few at a time in the Mosque. Catholics will also survive. They cancelled church services and mass in Canada.
The Mormons have closed all their temples, worldwide. (They’re restricted to members in good standing, and even then it requires a recommend from a bishop.)
Excellent piece in the New Yorker by Joshua Yaffa, with this conclusion:
“What’s clear is that Russia’s response to covid-19 is inexorably bound up with the political needs of the moment—and, as Vlassov told me, that as the government weighs the two “the virus comes second.” ”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/why-is-russias-coronavirus-case-count-so-low
Trump’s idea of America is Putin’s Russia.
Excellent, clever and spot on with so many nuggets.
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
https://thehobbledehoy.com/2019/03/08/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-ive-read/
The author left out (i) Trump’s ignorance of history, of his own country or any other; and (ii) Trump’s carnival barker, lowlife sleaziness.
Meant to say “unctuous, lowlife sleaziness.”
His ignorance, full stop. Lazyness-induced, loud-broadcast, proud ignorance.
And assholiness. Sorry, I can find no other word. Worthy of the fate of the Marbles’ in the hands of Divine, who convicted them of first-degree stupidity and assholism. (Pink Flamingos, 1972, dir. by the lovable John Waters)
Thoroughly enjoyable. A tribute that suits him to a ‘T’.
Stimulus Bill to Prohibit Trump Family, Lawmakers from Benefiting from Loan Programs
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/489427-stimulus-bill-to-prohibit-trump-family-lawmakers-from-benefiting-from-loan
https://mobile.twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1243664170496688129
I have a feeling once the funds are in the executive branches groping tiny hands, they are going to do whatever the hell they want with it and dare the Roberts court to stop them.
DJT is now claiming he can override Congress and not report which businesses get the funds.
There’s nothing we can do about the 30-35 percent of Americans who can’t seem to figure anything out. But I think open rebellion, first from the nation’s governors, will break out if the moron-in-chief attempts to end the lock down.
Back to the subject of the post, the law apart, does anyone think that the Mayor of Austin, for instance, where there is clearly ongoing person-to-person community spread, is going to allow his shelter in place order, not due to expire till mid-April, to be set aside while people are in hospital and, no doubt by then dying? The prospect of Federal and City lawyers arguing it out is surely too grotesque to contemplate.
Everything gets much, much worse between now and Easter. There will be nobody arguing for a return to work in a week; they would be hung from a lamp post before they had finished speaking.
To add to Rayne’s list: Vermont, Republican governor, Stay home/Stay safe order until April 15.
In NM the Governor just extended school closures to the end of the regular term. There are various stated ways that seniors can certify qualified for graduation. she has also restricted air travelers arriving in the state to a mandatory 14-day self quarantine, which will be enforced. For a tourism state that is big. I also saw that we rank 47th in the number of hospital beds/1000 persons.
If some localities can flatten the curve locally, and prevent importation as the incomer quarantine may, perhaps they can delay the peak until other localities’ have passed, reducing stress on health resources, overall. However, nationally, we aren’t looking too good.
Disturbing statistic: my county, Whatcom in WA, released today’s coronavirus figures and included a breakdown by age. The largest age group is 80+ at 25%, followed by 30-39 at 17%.
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241565491.html
The US economy is not going to recover quickly even if Americans go back to work just because Trump asks them to go back to work.
I doubt that very many Americans would go back to work just because Trump asked them to go back to work.
Trump has not done much to supplement the global supply chain with expanded domestic manufacturing. And the pandemic has already eviscerated the supposedly strong fundamentals beneath the US economy before the pandemic broke out.
If Americans do go back to work because Trump tells them to go back to work, the collapse of the American private health care system will also crash the US economy very deeply for a prolonged period of time.
And the combined death tolls from COVID-19, normal causes of death and causes of death exacerbated by economic recession or depression will be far worse than those death tolls otherwise would have been.
Trump’s Easter miracle is a pipe dream–for Trump. A nightmare for everyone not named Trump.
Robert Reich on Twitter: 6:48 PM · Mar 27, 2020
I don’t know how many times I need to say this before Congress will listen, but taxpayer money should be used to bail out people, not corporations.
A one-time $1,200 check is insulting.
How can we expect families to pay their bills for the duration of this pandemic with $1,200?
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1243671138045169665
A $500 Billion Corporate Bailout? With Few Conditions? Katie Porter Wants Oversight Now.
“I want to be crystal clear: The Treasury can move this money in an hour,” said the California Democrat.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-porter-coronavirus-stimulus-corporate-oversight-treasury_n_5e7cfe6cc5b6cb08a92a52b8
Robert Reich on Twitter: 2:34 PM · Mar 27, 2020
When this pandemic is over the same Republicans in Congress who demanded billions in handouts for corporations will demand billions in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to pay for it.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1243607448558211072
Mark my words.
Here’s Trump’s emergency declaration [???]:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-approves-michigans-disaster-declaration/
…dated and “issued”, and posted today, it begins:
From WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/27/trump-coronavirus-inspector-general/
Trump already trying to cut off House oversight of corporate bailout funds.
I highly recommend this article on the bioscience of COVID-19 from The New Yorker: “From bats to human lungs–the evolution of a Coronavirus”
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/from-bats-to-human-lungs-the-evolution-of-a-coronavirus
It seems that even here, people are a little bit under Trump’s sway of the narrative, because people are talking it in terms of the dichotomy he presented: the economy versus people’s lives.
The economy was already having very serious troubles, before the declaration of emergency, and before different state governments started closing things down.
The Dow Jones isn’t a perfect metric, but it can be illustrative here. On Friday, February 21st, the Dow Jones was at 28,992, basically a little off its all time high. A week later, it had decreased to 25,409, a 3,500 point drop in a week. This was when the big news was the coronavirus’ presence in Italy. Just the secondary effects to tourism and trade of Italy having a serious problem were enough to put the market into “correction” territory. On March 9th, when Italy ordered its lockdown, it had declined another 1500 points, for a 5,000 point drop in 20 days. Three days later, when the NBA suspended its season (which, to be honest, was when this became “real” for me), it had descended to 21,200. This was all before there was large scale or even piecemeal closures or declarations in the United States, and the stock market had already lost 8000 points, or 25% of its value. Again, the Dow isn’t a perfect metric, but the point being:
The entire tourism, hospitality and airline industry had already been decimated before any real government action was taken. Even if the federal government and every state government decided to lift all restrictions, large sectors of the economy would have no demand, or not enough demand to remain in business. Other sectors of the economy would be following anyway, cutting hiring or laying people off because of the general downturn in activity from such large sectors going blank. Which doesn’t even mention the expected problems of global supply chain disruption, etc.
Governments didn’t shut down the economy. The economy shut down itself.
The stock market dropped every time Trmp made another speech about the virus and how bad it wasn’t.
You know who warned us last July of serious economic downturn? Same person also had a plan for dealing with COVID-19 back in January.
I hate resigning myself to misogyny’s existence for the rest of my lifetime.
Way past the point of only reacting since everything the DC GOP says is a lie. Yes the economy shut itself down before local mandates and the president is doing his King Canute act about telling the tide to stop coming in.
Proactive people will fix the US anyway they can.
I live in Washington state, and I’m pretty sure we’re have an “all but essential business shut down” that started with the stay at home.
Perhaps I misread your list?