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    Trump calls for restarting economy by Easter: 'We have to get back to work'

    President Trump said Tuesday during a Fox News virtual townhall that he wants the country's economy re-opened by Easter amid questions over how long people should stay home and businesses should remain closed to slow the spread of coronavirus.

    Speaking from the Rose Garden alongside others on his coronavirus taskforce, Trump said he "would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter." The holiday this year lands on April 12.

    Trump argued he doesn't want "to turn the country off" and see a continued economic downfall from the pandemic. He also said he worries the U.S. will see "suicides by the thousands" if coronavirus devastates the economy.

    "We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don't turn the country off," Trump said during the interview.

    Trump added: "We lose much more than that to automobile accidents. We don't call up the automobile companies and say stop making cars. We have to get back to work."

    Taking questions before Trump, Vice President Mike Pence said the administration is not considering a nationwide coronavirus lockdown like some states and cities have taken.

    "I can tell you that at no point has the White House Coronavirus Task Force discussed what some people call a nationwide lockdown, or as you describe a stay at home order," Pence said.

    Pence also noted that the federal government sent 2,000 ventilators from the national stockpile to the state of New York, which has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the U.S., and vowed to send 2,000 more on Wednesday.

    Pence's comments come after the president tweeted early Tuesday saying that the government had sent just 400 ventilators to New York.

    New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had requested some 15,000 ventilators to deal with the outbreak in the state. Both de Blasio and Cuomo have repeatedly sounded the alarm on the shortage of ventilators in New York City hospitals, as many COVID-19 patients need the machines to help them breathe. New York now has more than 25,000 positive cases of coronavirus in the state, with roughly half of that in New York City.

    The president's prediction that the U.S. economy would be up-and-running by Easter, however, was tempered by comments earlier in the day by top officials at the Pentagon who predicted the COVID-19 outbreak could last anywhere from 10 weeks to three months.

    During a coronavirus town hall with U.S. forces around the world, Defense Secretary Mark Esper estimated it could take up to 10 weeks, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley went a little further saying he expected the military to be dealing with the virus for the next three months.

    Trump's enthusiasm for getting people back to work also comes as he takes stock of the political toll the outbreak is taking. It sets up a potential conflict with medical professionals, including many within his government, who have called for more social restrictions to slow the spread of the virus, not fewer.

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases and a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told WMAL on Tuesday that Trump has always heeded his recommendations.

    "The president has listened to what I have said and to what the other people on the task force have said when I have made recommendations he has taken them. He's never countered or overridden me, the idea of just pitting one against the other is just not helpful," Fauci said.

    During the Rose Garden interview, Trump also called on the Senate to pass a massive stimulus bill that is currently being debated between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The president blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for demanding a number of additional stipulations to the bill for the delay in its passage in the Senate.

    "I cancelled the deal last night because Nancy Pelosi put in a lot of things that had nothing to do with the workers," Trump said. "They start throwing Green New Deal stuff in, and the board rooms what they will look like...They have things that are just terrible, windmills everywhere."

    Arguably the most controversial aspect of the proposal, the initial GOP plan called for $208 billion in loans to larger businesses like airlines, which would have to be repaid, and a subsequent; a version released over the weekend called for $500 billion.

    Democrats have complained that the Republican-led draft of the aid package did not go far enough to provide health care and unemployment aid for Americans, and failed to put restraints on a proposed $500 billion "slush fund" for corporations, saying the ban on corporate stock buy-backs are weak and the limits on executive pay would last only two years.

    Schumer said Democrats also want included in the bill new collective bargaining powers for unions, higher fuel emissions standards for airlines, and expanded wind and solar tax credits.

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., McConnell accused Democrats of trying to extract concessions from airlines over their "carbon footprint," with the economy hanging in the balance.

    "They ought to be embarrassed," he said on Monday. "This is no time for this nonsense."

    The nearly $2 trillion stimulus package would include direct financial help to Americans in the form of stimulus checks sent out to many Americans. The proposal would include a one-time payment of $1,200 per adult, $2,400 per couple in the U.S. and up to $3,000 for a family of four.

    An estimated $350 billion would be provided for small businesses to keep making payroll. Companies with 500 or fewer employees could tap up to $10 million each in forgivable small business loans to keep paychecks flowing. The program would provide 8 weeks of assistance through federally guaranteed loans qualifying employers who maintain payroll; if they do, other costs like mortgage interest, rent, and utilities would be forgiven.

    The bill also includes an additional $242 billion in additional emergency appropriations to fight the virus and shore up for safety net programs. That includes money for food stamps, child nutrition, hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and public health and transportation agencies. The figure has gone significantly higher during talks over the weekend.

    Trump calls for restarting economy by Easter: ‘We have to get back to work’ | Fox News

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    "We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don't turn the country off," Trump said during the interview.

    Trump added: "We lose much more than that to automobile accidents. We don't call up the automobile companies and say stop making cars. We have to get back to work."
    Bingo. But I bet he's gonna get a ton of criticism on those remarks.

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    Curry Blake who some of you know said yesterday (March 23) on his broadcast, "This day (Mar 23rd) is the beginning of the end of the Corona virus and you watch, I'm believing God that by April 12th, I believe is Resurrection Sunday, by then, this whole thing will be completely wrapped up and gone." Then Trump comes out today and says he wants to restart the economy by Easter April 12.

    So we'll see how accurate this is. But no, he didn't prophesy it per se, or say it was a prophecy, just said he was believing God that it would be wrapped up and gone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Curry Blake who some of you know said yesterday (March 23) on his broadcast, "This day (Mar 23rd) is the beginning of the end of the Corona virus and you watch, I'm believing God that by April 12th, I believe is Resurrection Sunday, by then, this whole thing will be completely wrapped up and gone." Then Trump comes out today and says he wants to restart the economy by Easter April 12.

    So we'll see how accurate this is. But no, he didn't prophesy it per se, or say it was a prophecy, just said he was believing God that it would be wrapped up and gone.
    I am in favour of believing for victory by April 12 and have greater respect for leaders like Curry for praying and expecting God for a breakthrough than all the know it all prophets trying to predict things and tell us in hindsight what is happening.

    Not saying these prophets aren't praying and I'm sure most are which is great but I wish they would stop with all their 'prophetic insight' when they didn't predict anything regarding the virus

    BTW not against leaders having general perspectives if they feel God may be saying something about the virus ...just please don't try to claim a prophetic hotline to God and heard directly from him

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    It's fine to hope for this timeline, to pray for it. I'm certainly doing so.

    But we will have to base the decision on the data. Right now, the data
    is not good. (13,355 new cases yesterday in the US.) Unlike the flu,
    we don't know the extent to which this virus will spread if we all go
    back to normal.

    With the stimulus package just passed, we should be in position to
    ramp things up quickly as soon as the threat has passed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    It's fine to hope for this timeline, to pray for it. I'm certainly doing so.

    But we will have to base the decision on the data. Right now, the data
    is not good. (13,355 new cases yesterday in the US.) Unlike the flu,
    we don't know the extent to which this virus will spread if we all go
    back to normal.

    With the stimulus package just passed, we should be in position to
    ramp things up quickly as soon as the threat has passed.
    According to more recent calculations based on anti bodies, 1 billion people worldwide were infected by swine flu in 2009-10. The real question is how many people corona will end up killing, with swine flu it was no more than half a million.

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    I wonder why they don't just quarantine all those who are high risk, instead of quarantining everybody.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Curry Blake who some of you know said yesterday (March 23) on his broadcast, "This day (Mar 23rd) is the beginning of the end of the Corona virus and you watch, I'm believing God that by April 12th, I believe is Resurrection Sunday, by then, this whole thing will be completely wrapped up and gone." Then Trump comes out today and says he wants to restart the economy by Easter April 12.

    So we'll see how accurate this is. But no, he didn't prophesy it per se, or say it was a prophecy, just said he was believing God that it would be wrapped up and gone.
    I'm hearing the same - but about Passover - April 8/9. Our church is meeting online via Zoom and praying every night. We must pray for the stabilization of the economy, and expiration of the coronavirus!

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    I recently, Feb. 18, lost my nephew, 44 yr old trucker, to the flu. We never hear about the death by flu. Only Covid-19. Pelosi and Schumer has made it a political issue.

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    The CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 22,000 deaths, 36 million flu illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations.

    US flu death toll hits 22K, hospitalization rates high for children, young adults

    More than 1,000 deaths in the United States have now been linked to the coronavirus, a figure that continues to rise as thousands of new cases are reported each day. As of Thursday afternoon, at least 81,578 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and three U.S. territories, have tested positive for the virus, according to a New York Times database, and at least 1,180 patients with the virus have died.

    Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count - The New York Times

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