1- Never mind that this is Constitutionally reckless.

Never mind that everyone who claimed Trump is too authoritarian now want him to be too authoritarian.

This is just dumb (cont). https://twitter.com/axios/status/1245881194253881358">https://twitter.com/axios/sta...
2- What would be the point of locking down Alaska (143 confirmed cases, 9 hopitalized, 3 deaths) or Hawaii (215 confirmed cases, 15 hospitalized, 1 death)?

So confine it to the other 48 States? Well... (cont)
3- Take North Dakota for example. There is nothing to suggest any emerging risk. Why needlessly burden the State until a model or trend emerges that suggests danger?
4- South Dakota, same thing.
5- Nebraska, same thing. There& #39;s no risk of overrunning the hospital system, even if the IMHE model is correct.
6- There are more states like this. I could list several more examples. Frankly, some states are locked down that maybe sbouldn& #39;t be.

To me, the goal is to optimize use of the healthcare system while balancing the economic impact.
7- Locking down every single state just suffocates more of the economy and (unintended consequence) drives more hospitals out of business (or they furlough workers) because they become so under-utilized.
8- The Trump Admin is rightly leaving this to the states, county executives, and mayors. If there& #39;s a problem, it& #39;s the herd mentality of this group is rushing to implement more draconian measures than their peers.
9- If anything, the Trump Admin needs to work harder on the back-to-work plan. Eventually we& #39;ll need "green zones" and "red zones", with different guidance / rules for each.

It can& #39;t be a broad-brush plan in the future, and doesn& #39;t need to be a broad-brush mitigation now.
10- This is the danger of a society obsessed with virtue signaling. We may end up burning down a forest to kill a a finite number of beehives.

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