Originally published at: Trump Under Pressure to Call for a Nationwide Lockdown | Infostormer.com
The media and other political actors are trying to pressure the orange man into calling for a nationwide lockdown.
President Trump is holding back on declaring a nationwide stay-at-home order, even as some governors resist imposing restrictions that Trump’s top public health officials say are needed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The president has been reluctant to wade into matters he argues are better left to governors. But the pressure is growing for Trump to be decisive as Republican-led states like Texas, Iowa and Missouri are among the final holdouts to issue stay-at-home directives.
Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, said Trump may not have the legal authority to halt interstate travel or require governors to lock down a state. But the president has yet to fully use the power of his bully pulpit to encourage them to do so.
It doesn’t even matter what he does or doesn’t do at this point. All the major states and the vast majority of the population has already been subjected to some type of lockdown order. The economic damage from this prolonged closure of vast portions of the American economy is already done.
But what the lockdown is doing is preventing people from seeing just how bad the economic damage really is.
It will be impossible to mask this reality forever though. It doesn’t matter how long they try to keep these insane measures in place. We are heading into a major economic crisis. There is no denying this.
