President Trump's Difficult Decision

I can only speak my mind in regards to this article by the Wall Street Journal, and I would not post this on my social media. 
In brief, President Trump will need the wisdom of Solomon, and a miracle of pandemic reversal. There is the potential for another Great Depression if Trump keeps the quarantine in place for a month or two. If he makes the tough call to encourage regions to get back to work, it brings back the economy the media and democrats will put body bags in the streets to ensure the loss of the Trump Presidency.
Now, if you see this clearly, you will pray with the needed sense of urgency and fervor.

Updated March 24, 2020 8:16 pm ET By Rebecca Ballhaus, Stephanie Armour and Alex Leary

WASHINGTON—President Trump said he hopes to have the country reopened in just over two weeks, a timeline that is dramatically sooner than what many public-health experts have recommended to help contain the coronavirus pandemic.

“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” Mr. Trump said on a Fox News town hall filmed in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday. At a press briefing later Tuesday, Mr. Trump referred to Easter, which falls on April 12, as a “beautiful timeline” for reopening.

He said that once the 15-day period in which the government has urgedAmericans to practice social distancing ends next week, “we’ll stay a little bit longer than that,” but that he wants the effective shutdown of the U.S. and its economy to end “very soon.” He said Americans could continue to practice some form of social distancing while also going back to work.

Mr. Trump’s comments marked the extension of a complicated debate, both inside and outside the White House, over how to balance the public-health benefits of coronavirus restrictions against the broad economic pain those measures are causing.

For days, Mr. Trump and his aides have been discussing easing social-distancing guidelines as early as next week. The president has been pushed by advisers and business leaders to boost an economy beset by deepening job losses nationwide as state and local governments have directed people to stay home, people familiar with the discussions said. Financial markets have taken a steep dive in recent weeks and volatility in American stocks has reached historically high levels. Unemployment claims, which are reported this week, are expected to have soared.

Among those who have pressed Mr. Trump to get the economy running are Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Domestic Policy Council director Joe Grogan, people familiar with discussions said.

Other aides, particularly public-health advisers, have cautioned Mr. Trump against easing the guidelines, warning the measures remain necessary.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Tuesday’s White House press briefing there was not a firm plan to reopen the economy by Easter. “That’s really very flexible,” he said.

Dr. Fauci was more expansive on the point in an interview on NBC on Friday. “I cannot see that all of a sudden, next week or two weeks from now it’s going to be over,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a chance of that. I think it’s going to be several weeks.”

Other leading public-health experts have also called for greater caution. More than 130 million Americans are being urged by cities and states to stay at home. There have been 544 deaths in the U.S. from coronavirus and about 44,100 identified cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has firmly disagreed with the president’s call to open up businesses soon, saying that the country should listen to the medical professionals.

“This is not a time for notion-mongering, this is a time for serious, evidence-based decision making,” she said in an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday. “What the president is suggesting is really a formula for more uncertainty, more infections and more harm to the economy.”

Source: Trump Hopes to Have U.S. Reopened by Easter, Despite Health Experts’ Warnings | The Wall Street Journal