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Two Weeks That Changed America

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Posted By: DW626, 12/12/2023 6:26:46 AM

I was recently asked if there was a defining moment that dramatically accelerated and perhaps made permanent the chaos this nation is presently facing. My answer: the two weeks between March 16 and March 30, 2020. On March 16th, Donald Trump declared a National Emergency for COVID-19 and effectively shut down the nation for “15 days to slow the spread”. At a press conference announcing the temporary shutdown he said: said: “ With several weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner, and turn it quickly.” Regardless of the severity, never throughout the annals of mankind has a nation been shut down to combat a pandemic.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: TCloud 12/12/2023 7:01:09 AM (No. 1615476)
Well written and so now we are teetering the slide that takes into 3rd World Status!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: spacer 12/12/2023 7:25:37 AM (No. 1615490)
Included in the decisions made by President Trump that TDS expert McCann left lout of his timely smear is the info given to President Trump at the time. Like the scientist in England and buttressed with our own experts that were telling us 22 million Americans would die with the wave of this unknown highly contiguous world wide disease. I could go on about President Trumps actions that eventually led to the unmasking of the fraud and his unprecedented actions for treatments. But those like McCann artfully dodge those deeds and supplant their 20/20 hindsight for reality. In the end as truth will out it was one man against the onslaught of those with malice and deceit in their minds. MAGA
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Birddog 12/12/2023 7:27:50 AM (No. 1615492)
Keep in mind...there were two strains of covid, and two major outbreaks. East Coast/West Coast. When It first showed up the only Americans with this "New Virus from China" were securely contained aboard a cruise ship in Japan,where Trump ordered them to remain, under quarantine until the issue could be defined, and sorted.. A mid level State Dept. functionary defied that order and instead chartered several planes to quickly fly those passengers back to the USA and release them into several cities. The second strain came in through NYC...carried by a "Doctors without Borders" physician who KNEW he was sick, and sick with a rapidly spread New Virus that he had seen spreading and caught while in IRAN! He had been there despite the travel bans and sanctions already in place against that terrorist state. Even though already Ill he insisted on attending a Convention immediately upon his return, glad handing and hugging an east coast epidemic into effect.One that was being spread from the very "Medical Centers" that were supposed to be trying to halt it. Personally I think both that State Dept employee and the DWB MD should have been, and still should be, arrested, tried and convicted. For public endangerment at least...if not for the deaths of thousands, and the costs of $Trillions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 12/12/2023 7:42:26 AM (No. 1615500)
Bottom line, "it's Trump's fault!!" He closed down every restaurant, church, school and bar in every state, well okay, only the Blue ones, and he was pressured by the Deep State and the MSM to listen to the experts from the CDC who financed and and set up the offshore labs to create the virus in the first place. Orange Man bad, bad!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bgarrett 12/12/2023 7:47:01 AM (No. 1615502)
Never in history have we quarantined the healthy
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Reply 6 - Posted by: homefry 12/12/2023 7:54:53 AM (No. 1615506)
Trump followed the SCIENCE! He had to, this was something new and had no precedent to follow.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BarryNo 12/12/2023 8:05:19 AM (No. 1615519)
This is what happens when you depend on "Experts", who in this case, were being paid by the people who caused the problem. Never Again...
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Chiritwo 12/12/2023 9:37:13 AM (No. 1615613)
President Trump's so called experts weren't experts. This was all politics to keep the deep state under cover and to bring down the gov't The deaths from covid and the shot they just consider collateral damage.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: chumley 12/12/2023 10:04:58 AM (No. 1615642)
Ditto on the "experts". Hopefully we will know better next time. I bet Trump will.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/12/2023 11:06:03 AM (No. 1615692)
It was a coup against the presidency. It was a historical mistake to shutdown the economy. There is no getting around that. Trump should have been more suspicious of the fools that were advising him. Even Trump must acknowledge past mistakes in order to go forward. There are a lot us that are going to vote for Trump. The theft of the 2020 election, and illegitimate Biden presidency must be corrected as well.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Citoyen 12/12/2023 11:19:19 AM (No. 1615704)
We are constantly told that Covid is not to be an issue in 2024. That is insane since the dire straits that we are in was the result of how Covid was handled in 2020. This article is one of the best I've read and it certainly isn't anti-Trump since it accurately details what Trump did. I don't blame Trump since he was hardly the only one to be fooled by the federal medical establishment. The biggest mistake he made was extending the emergency past the "15 days to slow the spread." I think he should admit that was a mistake and vow never to let the "experts" wield such power ever again.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: red1066 12/12/2023 11:58:19 AM (No. 1615734)
Trump didn't make that decision on his own. I guarantee Fauci was all in on this. As I've said before. Even when Trump offered a possible remedy for Covid, (which turned out to work) he was raked over the coals by the media (he's not a doctor) while Fauci made faces behind his back at news conferences on almost every word that came out of Trump's mouth.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: privateer 12/12/2023 12:08:44 PM (No. 1615743)
Hey, the Deep State Department guy, and the one from Doctors Wipeout Mortals were only doing their job: spreading the virus far and wide to effect the eventual theft of the 2020 election. Mission accomplished!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: AGGW 12/13/2023 1:05:13 AM (No. 1616099)
As it got closer to the end of the 2 weeks, Trump held an upbeat news conference about referencing Easter. Behind him, Fauci was making faces and rolling his eyes before his turn to speak. So Fauci knew all along what he planned to do.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Luandir 12/13/2023 1:34:00 AM (No. 1616117)
One of the very worst disasters visited upon America and its people, perhaps exceeded only by the Civil War and the Great Depression. Foisted on us by enemies not foreign, but domestic. We won't get fooled again.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DiegoDude 12/13/2023 6:49:00 AM (No. 1616189)
No doubt the song "Won't Get Fooled Again" by the Who, is playing in Trump's mind.
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