CNN's Michael Smerconish says the most critical issues of our time are restarting the economy and protecting democracy in this election year.
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Reopen the economy too early and the curve will steepen again. Stay at home!
@O SNOOPY SNOOP I totally agree with you. No-one will risk his her life just because Trump wants them to.
@Ahmad Razi EXACTLY & WHEN DID HE BECOME A DOCTOR?! HE LOST THE PEOPLE’S-POPULAR VOTE BY NEARLY 3 MILLION VOTES & ONLY WON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE BY 77,744 VOTES WHICH MEANS THAT MOST OF US DIDN’T WANT HIM IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO BEGIN WITH SO THE HELL WITH WHAT HE HAS TO SAY!! HE’LL BE DOING THE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE PRESS CONFERENCES & SAY ONE THING & THEN DR TONY FAUCI & DR DEBORAH BRIX WILL COME RIGHT BEHIND HIM & SAY,”NO, THAT’S NOT TRUE” & HE GOT SO MAD ABOUT IT THAT HE TRIED TO STOP THEM FROM EVEN GOING ON CNN A FEW DAYS AGO BECAUSE THEY SAY WHAT THE TRUTH IS & HE CAN’T STOP THEM LIKE HE TRIES TO TAKE OVER THEIR PRESS CONFERENCES!! IF YOU APPOINT GENERALS TO CERTAIN POSITIONS & THEN A WAR BREAKS OUT PEOPLE DON’T WANNA HEAR FROM YOU THEY WANNA HEAR FROM THE GENERALS WHO HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN ON THE BATTLE FIELD & THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE IN THIS CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC WAR BUT OH NO, HE HAS TO GET ALL THE ATTENTION & DOESN’T EVER KNOW WHAT THE HELL HE’S TALKIN’ ABOUT ESPECIALLY WHEN THOSE PEOPLE 👀 SEE & 👂 HEAR THEIR OWN GOVENORS, MAYORS, DOCTORS, NURSES & SCIENTISTS FROM THEIR STATES & CITIES & TOWNS ON THE NATIONAL & LOCAL NEWS ALL DAY SAYIN’,”THAT’S A LIE”, HELL, SOME OF THEM MIGHT EVEN BE YOUR RELATIVES YA KNOW?!🙏🇺🇸💯💪✌😂😂😂
I’m staying at Joe Biden’s house
So everyone should be homeless because of fear mongering over a little flu bug?
@J K that won’t even get your tonsils wet,Melania.
“Protecting democracy…” PAPER BALLOTS, HAND-COUNTED IN PUBLIC!!! YOU OVERPAID SUITS KNOW THIS!!! DO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY AND SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, DAMN IT!!!
@Jock Young no, only registered voters. We don’t need convicted felons, or minors to have voter ID.
@Dale Anderson There are no laws prohibiting people from getting an ID. But there are roadblocks that make it difficult (cost and the process to obtain necessary documentation, for example) and the cost of photo ID from the state are a defacto poll tax on the poor and people w/o transportation.
@Vickie Clark Funny how the poor have money for cigs, booze and drugs but an ID is financially out of reach. Give me a break snowflake.
@Dale Anderson That is a gross exaggeration. Not all poor people buy cigs, booze, and drugs.
@Vickie Clark A lot of them do and you know it.
Smerconish, I developed a financial hibernation plan to get this country through the economic catastrophe.
All bills should be put on hold for 3 months as if the three months never existed. The beauty of this is the poor who are still working would have more disposable money than they normally would have. The hibernation should be from the treasury on down to a lemonade stand. Only the very wealthy would see less income and they can absorb it. All Trump has to do is bring together Nobel economists to work out a hibernation program. When people do not have any bills they can just focus on food, My plan would save trillions in the long run. For some reason republicans like to borrow into the national debt and what makes this reckless is the president doesn’t want the funds to be monitored.
David Clark
This comment is more than all Democrats have done collectively with regards to the crisis
I’m not really worried about people who have second houses. I’m worried about people LOCKED IN TINY APARTMENTS WITH NO YARD. ABUSE MUST SKYROCKETING!!!!!
I agree with you. It’s Trump’s America. And he’s doing EVERYTHING to try and protect his position.
Blessings from Holland! 🇳🇱❤️PrTrump is the one keeping his promises- see promises kept. com, while arrogant dRATS are stuck in their leftist lies: and everyday THEY are more exposed! BOOM!🇺🇸 On his watch, together you have: • Created over 7 million jobs—and counting • Achieved the lowest unemployment rate in half a century • Lifted 2.4 million of our citizens out of poverty • Lowered medicine prices at rates not seen since the 1960s • Cut violent crime by nearly 5 percent since 2016 • That’s just the short list. And there’s much more to come. Trump, Republicans working to help your country — despite Democratic obstruction at every turn🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@Freda Langston Maybe a lot people shouldn’t have been together in the first place.It’s a good time to really get to know your partner.
@Downright Dutch People’s lives over voting in person ? Nahh , no President/Politician is worth loss of life Sir.
You should be more worried about your poor grammar.
The GOP use to pretend to occupy the moral high ground.
All pretenses are gone.
Hop ers are scummy liars and crooks.
Dale Anderson
Social Security, the minimum wage, Medicare/Medicaid, disability insurance, workmen’s comp are a few examples of socialism.
@Kilgore Trout WHOOP THERE IT IS!! FOOD STAMPS TOO!! PLUS THE $12 BILLION & THEN THE $16 BILLION THAT TRUMP GAVE THE 🚜 FARMERS FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS BECAUSE OF HIS TRADE WAR WITH CHINA & I KNOW THEY’LL GET ANOTHER WELFARE CHECK THIS YEAR TOO!!🇺🇸💯💪✊😎✌😂😂😂
@Kilgore Trout Social security of I live the avg. life span I can expect about 1.3 percent return back on my confiscated money. Just wonderful. Inflation will devour that return into the red, thank God for that socialist program.
@Dale Anderson And you can thank REPUBLICANS for that.They are always at the trough.
Like Trump. No amount of money is EVER enough.
stop paying millions in corporation’s
and focus in the real American’s people
God bless all Americans and all people around the world
🙏🙏🙏
@Juan Rivera Sure, Jan.
@John Tack I love it when liberals hate on corporations and capitalism yet also spend lots of money shopping at Target, Amazon, Whole Foods, etc.
THAT’S NOT HOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THINKS!! THEY’RE ALL ABOUT BIG BUSINESS WHILE THE REPUBLICAN STATES ARE THE POOREST STATES IN AMERICA & THEY’RE POORLY EDUCATED BASE LOVES IT THAT WAY TOO!!💯💯✌😂😂😂
@Juan Rivera “Himself”
All voting should have paper trail. Literally, a physical paper trail. Luckily that is law in CT
@P. L. ODay … MA has it and in this last primary election they were promoting on TV to vote by mail… Seems to be the in thing to do now… I guess because of the population growth as compared to 20 yrs ago as way to avoid long lines…
@Facts First … I have not done it.. So I wouldn’t know… I would imagine because they have to send it to an address they would know but not in a way that a person would think… Your name on a voter registration form that’s in file , so they already know who you are… It just not broad casted…
@whyputaname2 Vote by Mail is certainly convenient, and ballots can be mailed or hand delivered to secure big ballot boxes around town. But the other selling point is not having voting machines. Can’t hack paper.😉
@P. L. ODay …. That is the most secure way of doing it…
@whyputaname2 that’s not how it works at all. There are many safeguards to it.
The real question is how do we protect morality?
Are you reading all this stuff i think its to late for that sad to say
What???
Morality is a distant memory at this point. Assigned to the annals of History.
And civil liberties!
EVERYONE should have the opportunity to vote safely! Regardless of the coronavirus pandemic.
Randi Creitz Vote 🗳 for whom ?????
Bob Kay Trump all day!
By November most states will be using vote by mail. The Republicans might be able to block some of them, but it won’t make them very popular.
I live in Oregon. We’ve had Mail In voting for a few decades now. So you’re all saying us Oregonians are far far smarter than most people from other states because we’ve made it work here with less fraud than what happens in most other states? I’ll take that. Disagree? Make your State work better than ours. That’s on you!
I’ll be waiting at home for my ballot to arrive. After living in Michigan for a while I have come to Love Oregon voting. The ballot comes with a long guide to all the issues and candidates on the ballot with laid out arguments from both sides. I can take up to an hour sitting drinking a beer as I educate myself on the minor issues. How does the whole world not do this?
@Marcus Williams the ppl that count the ballots replace them like they got caught doing in Florida.
In Michigan they’ve had absentee ballot voting for decades. I will use it this year, citing “potential health risk” for the reason I can’t vote at my polling place. And no one was screaming voters fraud like the jackass in office.
Yes we have had mail in voting too in California…why are some states so behind the times?
@Linamee Swanson California had 3.5M fake votes in 2016, that’s why.
solomon kane bs. What they did was remove that number of older inactive voters names. Not the same thing at all. They are tricking you. Please look it up for yourself.
Bill Barr has no credibility to be telling anyone anythng ……..
@JimmyJack neither did I,
And I didn’t compare Barr to Biden. What made you bring up Biden?
*MUTE ALL RUSSIAN TROLLS-BOTS & TRUMP’S-PUTIN’S WHITE NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN MAGA NAZI ASSLICKER’S WHENEVER THEY POP-UP ON YOUR NOTIFICATIONS!!💯👿👿🆗🇺🇸✌😂😂😂*
@JimmyJack a comment about Bill Barr being grandfatherly. Don’t you even read the comments? I can actually blame you if you don’t YouTube makes this such a stupid way to jumble so many different threads into one long stream. Biden is the perfect example of a dementia ridden Grandpa.
@Wayne T Common sense isn’t a POV.
Liberal’s common sense was reprogrammed and indoctrinated into your tiny brain in public educ. Where independently thinking was punished and shamed. It’s why half of millennials have taken or are on psychotropics.
CIA ( i love them ) gave him the advise in december 2019 about this virus. Did he act? NO.
@Alisa Johns THE PENTAGON RELEASED A REPORT THAT SAID THEY ACTUALLY BRIEFED HIM BACK IN NOVEMBER & THEN HE WAS IN DECEMBER & THEN IN JANUARY THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY TOLD HIM AGAIN BUT ON FEBRUARY 28TH AT HIS RALLY IN SOUTH CAROLINA HE WAS CALLING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC A DEMOCRATIC HOAX BUT THEN AGAIN HE DOES HAVE AN EXCUSE THOUGH BECAUSE HE CAN’T READ!!💯💯👿🆗🇺🇸✌😂😂😂
O SNOOPY SNOOP That crazy…no matter what proof these people still going to believe anything Trump says. Im so ready for Nov. even if we had to go out in public im voting. Im ordered mask n making them so i can pass them out at the voting locations. We all need to do what we can. I dont care for Joe but he is 200% better then what we have.
@Alisa Johns YUP YUP & THAT’S WHY ON FEBRUARY 24TH, 2016 HE SAID,”I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED & THE POORLY EDUCATED LOVE ME TOO” & THEY DO THEY DO BUT HEADZ UP=95% OF THESE POORLY EDUCATED FOOLZ ON YOUTUBE ARE RUSSIAN TROLLS-BOTS!! I SHOULD KNOW BCUZ THAT’S THE ONLY REASON I EVEN DO YOUTUBE WHILE I’M WATCHIN’ REAL AMERICAN CABLE-SATELLITE 📺 T.V. AT THE SAME TIME & IN 2 YRS. & SOME CHANGE I’VE SCHOOLED & MUTED MOST OF THEM & SOME OF THEM MULTIPLE TIMES A’IGHT?!🙏✊😎💯💪🗽🌉🌉🗽✌😂😂😂
Michael I ❤️ u
Deborah Freedman can you provide how China hiding the information? Did you know it’s new strain of virus? How does doctor knows something that has never happened before? People can be so ignorant sometimes, if it started here, I don’t think Trump administration would be able to report it at least for three or six months coz he defunded CDC research lab in 2018
You can’t leave your Manhattan apt to go spend some time in your other house on the beach – massively out of touch alert.
@Steve Withers Wtf are you talking about? I guess you didn’t understand the comment.
@MADE IN CHINA Says the broke loser!
@Jack Ryan I’m at my beach house right now…
@MADE IN CHINA Lol, so am I!
I listen to Michael just about every morning on satellite radio (Potus channel), and yes, he does tend to be out of touch at times.
Does anyone know where I can buy some masks?? In my opinion, it’s impossible to always keep social-distance from others. Mask is a reliable protection. It’s like driving a car with seatbelt on, you always wear a seatbelt even though you keep distance from other cars.
@On Couch Arrest MASKS ARE THE NEW HOT COMMODITY!! I HAVE A NEWS APP ON MY PHONE & LAST WEEK A GUY IN SPAIN WUZ BUSTED FOR TRYING TO STEAL 2 MILLION MASKS FROM A WAREHOUSE!! GOOGLE IT & READ THE NEW YORK POST, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES OR THE https://hollywoodunlocked.com, CNBC!! THE BUSINESS INSIDER ARTICLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE STEALING MASKS FROM HOSPITALS!!✌😂😂😂
Ask God to save your soul ……..Jesus Christ still heals today ….except the fearful and unbelieving
One of the most intelligent analogies yet, thank you.
I bought mine through Amazon. The only place I could find them.
Masks (except the N95) are to protect OTHERS from *YOU* (in case you have Covid19) *_Don’t take away from the front line healthcare SOLDIERS. They’re in battle with NO amo!!_*
The only way to get back to “normal”, is MASSIVE TESTING, this way a return is done in a smart and calculated fashion.
@504since78 seriously, and we take our kids to the hospital every time they have the sniffles, we take an ibuprofen every time we have a headache, we only drink water from a sealed bottle as though tap water will make an arm grow out of your chest. And don’t get me wrong, I’m all for safety when reasonable, and I’m all for keeping our kids safe, but we’ve become so sheltered and safe as a society that people cripple the second there’s a real danger presented.
Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 key word SHELTERED. It’s getting to the point where we don’t let our immune system even try to work. Now every time someone coughs or sneezes ppl give them a crazy look. I’m like y’all know this occasionally happens right.
@Betty Blowjob I’m sorry Betty but Trump will get re-elected, why? Bernie Sanders doesn’t have the support and Biden is not mentally capable
@504since78 I went to my nephews baseball tourney recently, he’s 11. And the on deck circle for the next better is always behind the batter according to if he’s left or right handed, when we were kids the on deck circle was just on our side of the dugout. They do that because a foul ball is less likely to hit them that way, I get it, and it’s smart, we don’t want the kids to get hurt….. But at the same time, a valuable lesson you learn playing youth sports is PAY ATTENTION!!!!! Or you might get hurt. Not killed, not seriously injured, but I think it’s important for kids to learn how to protect themselves, because life is dangerous, and mom and dad aren’t always going to be 5 feet away. I also noticed whenever they got hit by a pitch they would cry and be all dramatic, I understand it sucks, and it hurts, but it’s not THAT bad, it’s like getting punched in the shoulder or back really hard, you’re fine. Kids are sheltered babies these days.
Minion…. turn to Almighty God …… Ask God to save your soul ….. you won’t go to hell with the Cnn maggots
US overtakes Italy as country with world’s highest death toll
Where was you at when h1n1 killed 65,000 people? Oh I forgot that people been ignoring that fact because it was Obamas virus.
H1N1 Killed about 12,500 people and infected 60 million.
@GRANT MCCABE Whataboutism won’t work here.
Of course it did dickhead. Look at population difference and density. Are you that dumb?
@Jose Diaz How fortunate we were that there was a H1N1 vaccine, and anyone that had the flu showed symptoms.
We aren’t hiding under our beds. We are staying home until our government can provide us with enough information to safely go out again. What a jerk the AG is.
New Wuhan cov-19 virus outbreak Guangzhou China. Southern Chinas health officials are blaming africans who just arrived , for the outbreak. Chinese officials and citizens are driving the Africans from their homes. Video available.
South korea announced that 51 survivors ov the Cov-19 virus tested negative and were sent home. Now after being retested all 51 cases have reactivated. Officials trying to figure out why.
Lock down for a little bit its getting kinda weird now..
I’m already outside. Just took my kids to the park and store for ice cream.
Kassi
WTF makes you think I watch Fox???? I have never watched Fox except for the live briefings. Hahahahahaha!! You’re so desperate, is fake news making you crazy??
@Joe Poes Damn, so defensive. You mentioned how CNN doesn’t cover the briefings… So I decided to mention how Fox is also the same, I didn’t say YOU watch Fox news. I just brought up Fox news because even conservative news does it. If you want to call out CNN, call out the other news stations that do it too. Otherwise, your bias is showing. 🤔😃😍
Kassi
But Fox do show the press conference, I know this because I’ve ONLY watched the conferences on Fox…. So, what are you talking about???
Stop calling what we have to do ‘hiding under the bed’. That staying at home is not.
@kermets
Stop Posting the Democrat-Marxists talking points. Your statistics are right from the Communists running the former Democrat Party and their puppets in the Press..
Pelosi and her cohorts blame Trump and hope that no one is keeping an eye on HER.
Pelosi is saying Trump is fiddling while people are dying. Yet on the 31st of January Trump stopped Flights from China from entering our country. Then 4 weeks later Pelosi is in the streets of San Francisco inviting people to come to China Town to shop and eat in Chinese restaurants.
Then Shotgun Joe Biden was saying that Trump’s China Ban was Racists, although he’s now denying it, not coming forward to offer a plan, and then saying NOW that if he were President, he would have done it earlier.
So then that GENIUS Biden said his plan would not have discriminated against Chinese. Sure Joe, anything you say. The man is not only a LIAR, he’s Senile.
Anyone that listens to those IDIOTS is not very smart. No wonder you’re an outsider.
@American Paisa It’s not about your freedom to do as you please. It’s a pandemic, until there is effective treatment or cure, your behavior directly effects everyone else’s health. *IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT YOU*
Meme Zanders Oh really. Take a look at our first responders and police officers here in Los Angeles. https://youtu.be/q3eTH_el_xE The so called people you depend on to help, serve and protect your community because you can’t protect yourself.
Meme Zanders It is about my freedom and nobody is going to take that away from me. Not you an certainly not no virus.
@American Paisa Then, by all means, GO! Be free home-slice 😂
This governor wants a system that helps the fraud that the DNC have systematically been successful with.
You mean like Florida?
It’s ok for Republicans to commit fraud, voter suppression and destruction of opposition ballots. Right….
stfu – there is no democrat voter fraud
@D Snyder No one is too poor to have ID. Thats the biggest election fraud ever bestowed on the public. Election fraud with gerrymandering is done by both parties. Dems want methods of fraud that allows illegals to vote and where their foot soldiers will commit microcosms of crime without the need for a well defined organized network, its their MO. Republicans arent organized that way, so you will never uncover a huge network of fraud but lots of small disconnected instances of it. Whether its populating the federal government with activist (the deep state) to voter fraud, they know, just put the rules in place and their foot soldiers will do the rest.
Any one official who declares that we go back sooner than later MUST be made to sign a pledge that if a re-occurrence does take place he/she must resign immediately. and face stiff fines and jail time (Like they might do else where)
I guess I’m fine with that as long as you go to jail if it doesn’t surge
It will not be possible to shut down society in the 12-24 months it will take until a vaccine is ready. There more or less must—unless people accept a totally collapse of economy and extreme poverty and unemployment rates—be a “heard immunity” (as it is called) developed so many restrictions can be lifted within a few months. But by “flattening the curve”, healthcare will be able to manage the situation better and have time to develop methods to treat the most severe symptoms that leads to death. And if we eventually manage to test everyone to see who is ill, has been ill and has developed immunity, it will be a bit more easy to manage the spread. As heard immunity slowly takes place all the time, the probability of getting infected decreases. And as the methods to treat the ill evolves, the probability of dying will also decreases. When the probability to get infected and die is closing in on the death rates of the common flue or as dying in a traffic accident, restrictions will probably be lifted more and more. Although, measures to protect and isolate elderly and people with medical preconditions probably will continue until there is a vaccine.
There will be re-occurrences, but they will become easier to manage. And there will be deaths. But in the same way we don’t ban cars because people get killed in car accidents, or guns because people kill each other, it unfortunately will be a reality that we have to accept it.
If someone think it is possible to lock down society for 12-24 month until there is a vaccine… can you explain how tenths—or hundreds—of millions of Americans can afford food, rent, etc. for 18 months without income?! And in the same way is it quite impossible to increase the national debt to the extent that would be needed if economical support to everyone—to pay for such costs—would be released by the Congress.
@MADE IN CHINA It takes years to move manufacturing. And how do you move manufacturing… you’d probably infect more when you do it than if you just keep on going as usual, as there must be all kind of “outsiders” hired if you want to move manufacturing. And it would cost far to much for the businesses, especially right now when many businesses already are under severe economical stress.
And your idea would most likely also only work if we force a total shut down on every county where there is the slightest suspicion that there is one or more infected. And there isn’t enough police, national guard or soldiers to be able to enforce such shut downs around the nation.
Spoken by someone who has clearly never taken responsibility for any personal failures.
You stay home and continue hoping the ‘government” will provide you with food, shelter and water. It ain’t gonna happen. At some point you will have to put on your big boy pants and provide for yourself.