Coronavirus is about to change your life

If you think that this COVID -19 virus is not a big deal and it will eventually going to be normal again, You are wrong. It’s time to wake up. Because your life is about to change.

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Issued a disturbing warning during a White House briefing on Tuesday. He said that Americans need to change the way they live their lives right now. And he said, “We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we can’t be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a state that has no cases or one case.” Also, he referred to the new federal coronavirus.gov website. You can get details on precautions that you should take when you are at home, at work or out in the public.

Furthermore, Dr. Anthony said, “If and when the infections will come — and they will come, sorry to say, sad to say — when you’re dealing with an infectious disease… we want to be where the infection is going to be, as we as where it is.” and he also said, “Everybody should say, ‘All hands on deck,'”

He is not the only one who gave people a red alert about this Coronavirus. According former homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump, Thomas Bossert, We are at an infections point. Wrote in the Washington Post. You should read the entire article.

But here are the key points from his article. “Officials must pull the trigger on aggressive interventions. Time matters. Two weeks of delay can mean the difference between success and failure. Public health experts learned this in 1918 when the Spanish flu killed 50 million to 100 million people around the globe. If we fail to take action, we will watch our health-care system to be overwhelmed.”

He compared the situation happened in Italy which lead to national lockdown. And also more strict and invasive early actions in Singapore and Hong Kong. He also said that Americans have to prepare to stay away from their daily activities for weeks. “How long? Epidemiologists suggest eight weeks might be needed to arrest this outbreak. administrators, students, teachers need to get busy figuring out how to continue the education for our children while contributing to this community-wide public health effort.”

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States of emergency

The suburbs of New Rochelle, New York is under containment. And also national guards are called to help with delivering foods to residents. As of Tuesday evening, 18 governors had declared states of emergency.

School closures

Dr. Anthony said at the briefing, it is not appropriate to initiate a nationwide school ban at the moment. America is a massive country so we need to monitor where the outbreak is going and target closures there.

Government help

The president would put the full weight of the government to fight back the virus outbreak. This is assured to the Americans by Vice President Mike Pence. He said that people who feel sick shouldn’t feel like they have to work or risk their paychecks because of the sickness.

Assuming people keep their jobs, Administration officials are also pushing a payroll tax holiday to put more money in people’s pockets. After President Trump made a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a meeting with Senate Republicans, it’s clear that there won’t be an execution of this package in recent times.

According to the CNN Congressional team report, “After the hour-long meeting in the Capitol, where the conversation included proposals of payroll tax holidays for workers, targeted relief for hard-hit industries — like airlines, cruise ships, restaurants, and retail — tax cuts to help small businesses better afford sick leave for their workers and other proposals, some GOP senators remained skeptical about quickly passing an expensive stimulus package.”

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel said afterward that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, would have ‘Ball control’ on negotiations that could take place in the coming weeks and that Senate Republicans would defer to them to see if they could cut a deal.”

The Bottom line is that this is so much bigger than partisanship. And also how anyone feels about President Trump and Washington.

President Trump skipped the white house briefing on Tuesday but he tweeted about how low US unemployment and digging Democrats over climate policy. And also he retweeted coronavirus safety precautions posted to Pence’s account. And recently he said that the coronavirus is under control.

Source: CNN