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A Seattle-​based NPR sta­tion has stated that it will no longer be air­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s coro­n­avirus brief­ings because of “mis­in­for­ma­tion.” As we’ve learned over the past sev­eral years, mis­in­for­ma­tion is sim­ply the infor­ma­tion they don’t want you to hear.

So what is the “mis­in­for­ma­tion” Trump has been say­ing? Obvi­ously things the main­stream media wants to avoid, like ask­ing peo­ple to remain calm, look at the objec­tive facts and sta­tis­tics about the pan­demic and stop play­ing into the fear-​mongering of the main­stream media. Fear has boosted main­stream media’s rat­ings in the past few weeks, adding to their prof­its. Reopen­ing the econ­omy means peo­ple would be at work or at least out doing things instead of watch­ing the panic-​laced head­lines scroll across the TV.

“KUOW is mon­i­tor­ing White House brief­ings for the lat­est news on the coro­n­avirus — and we will con­tinue to share all news rel­e­vant to Wash­ing­ton State with our lis­ten­ers,” the sta­tion tweeted.

“How­ever, we will not be air­ing the brief­ings live due to a pat­tern of false or mis­lead­ing infor­ma­tion pro­vided that can­not be fact-​checked in real-​time.”

How­ever, we will not be air­ing the brief­ings live due to a pat­tern of false or mis­lead­ing infor­ma­tion pro­vided that can­not be fact checked in real time. (2)

— KUOW Pub­lic Radio (@KUOW) March 24, 2020

This habit of cen­sor­ship needs to end now. How about instead of cen­sor­ship like total­i­tar­ian regimes resort to, we let peo­ple have access to all of the infor­ma­tion and decide for them­selves if it’s fact-​based or not? It’s time to pro­vide peo­ple with facts, not fear. This is sim­ply another tac­tic to panic Amer­i­cans, who are already scared to death about the pan­demic and the after­math they’ll have to live through.

Most recently, Trump has called for the lift­ing of social dis­tanc­ing guide­lines in the near future, per­haps by Easter, even though pub­lic health pro­fes­sion­als are still grap­pling with the spread of the virus. He also has made false claims about the avail­abil­ity of tests, the time­line for find­ing a vac­cine and the poten­tial ben­e­fits of a treat­ment that includes the ingre­di­ent chloro­quine. While there is some promis­ing study of its poten­tial use, it has not been approved for treat­ment. NBC News reported on one Ari­zona man who died after ingest­ing chloro­quine phos­phate, and his wife said that they learned about its use after watch­ing a brief­ing. –Yahoo

First, call­ing for the lift­ing of the eco­nomic shut­down is not “mis­in­for­ma­tion.” It should be done sooner and peo­ple should be respon­si­ble and not spread the dis­ease, but destroy­ing people’s lives to slow the spread is hardly a solu­tion to the prob­lem, which based on the objec­tive sta­tis­tics, isn’t that severe of a virus if you’re healthy. It sure seems like NPR should be more wor­ried about mak­ing sure peo­ple are get­ting objec­tive facts rather than scar­ing them with the “reopen­ing” of the economy.

The news net­works have been cov­er­ing the brief­ings live, but CNN and MSNBC cut away from them on Mon­day, as the event stretched beyond an hour.

Deputy White House Press Sec­re­tary Judd Deere crit­i­cized the chan­nels for the deci­sion as “dis­grace­ful,” but an MSNBC spokesper­son said that “after air­ing the press con­fer­ence for over an hour we cut away because the infor­ma­tion no longer appeared to be valu­able to the impor­tant ongo­ing dis­cus­sion around pub­lic health.” A spokes­woman for CNN said, “If the White House wants to ask for time on the net­work, they should make an offi­cial request. Oth­er­wise, we will make our own edi­to­r­ial deci­sions.” –Yahoo

Pretty dis­grace­ful that @CNN and @MSNBC have both cut away from this @WhiteHouse brief­ing with @realDonaldTrump and @Mike_Pence dur­ing a global pan­demic. Thank you to @FoxNews for keep­ing Amer­i­cans informed. #COVID19

— Judd Deere (@JuddPDeere45) March 23, 2020

The truth is, politi­cians rarely if ever tell the truth, and the major­ity of the pub­lic knows that. Cen­sor­ship, on the other hand, is noth­ing more than a tool of total­i­tar­ian con­trol. It comes out when the media des­per­ately needs to con­trol the nar­ra­tive. Per­haps they fear that they are los­ing the atten­tion of the pub­lic. It’s dif­fi­cult to say, but cen­sor­ship (like what China used at the begin­ning of the coro­n­avirus out­break) is never acceptable.

For an eye-​opening take on why social dis­tanc­ing has become the “new nor­mal,” check out James Corbett’s Pro­pa­ganda Watch:

All that said, do the right thing and do not spread this virus around. Prac­tice effec­tive hand wash­ing, teach your chil­dren how to prop­erly wash their hands, and don’t be around other peo­ple if you’re sick. Keep a safe dis­tance between peo­ple while in pub­lic to avoid the virus, and if you feel more com­fort­able, wear a face mask.

While much of the world is prac­tic­ing social dis­tanc­ing to slow the spread of COVID-​19, Indi­ans — some don­ning face masks — are still gath­er­ing in tightly packed crowds despite an order to ‘stay indoors’by Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi.

Here’s the scene at the bus sta­tion in Dheli:

Delhi bus sta­tionpic​.twit​ter​.com/​B​w​n​p​4​0​U​I​F​8

— Old Hol­born ✘ (@Holbornlolz) March 28, 2020

It’s not much bet­ter in some parts of the UK:

With the mosques closed due to #Coro­n­avirus

They just rock up on a ten­nis court in Birm­ing­ham. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​c​x​U​w​g​j​2​T​J​c

— Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) March 28, 2020

Sum­mary:

• Global case total tops 600k
• Global COVID-​19 death toll tops 30k
• Japan fast-​tracks approval of treat­ment drug for COVID-​19
• Third UK min­is­ter self-​quarantines after show­ing symp­toms of virus
• Calif. death toll tops 100
• Trump weigh­ing enforce­able quar­an­tine order for all of greater NY area
• Trump tells NBC reporter that quar­an­tines of New York, NJ & Conn. were “possible”
• Axios reports infant dies in Chicago after test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-​19
• Italy case total sur­passes China
• Spain reports dead­liest day yet
• UK case total climbs north of 17k
• France reports another 5k cases
• Navy hos­pi­tal ships leave for New York, LA
• Abe says he’s “just barely avoid­ing” declar­ing a national emergency
• Yale Uni­ver­sity slammed for deny­ing aid to city of New Haven
• Shinzo Abe promises unprece­dented stim­u­lus package
• Trump gives Pen­ta­gon power to call up retired sol­diers and reservists
• NYPD detec­tive dies from COVID-​19
• Ital­ian cen­ten­nar­ian sur­vives bat­tle with COVID-​19

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Update (1700ET):Calif. Gov. Gavin New­som just announced that California’s death toll from COVID-​19 has topped 100, with 101 deaths statewide.

Mean­while, in Chicago, Axios reports that an infant less than 1 year old has died of COVID-​19 in the city. After state offi­cials in Cal­i­for­nia denied reports ear­lier in the week about an infant report­edly pass­ing away in LA County after test­ing pos­i­tive for the virus, this would be the first con­firmed infant death in the US…if it’s con­firmed, that is.

Most recorded cases in Illi­nois have been found in the Chicago area and sur­round­ing coun­ties. The state health depart­ment has reported 3,491 COVID-​19 cases as of Sat­ur­day, includ­ing 47 deaths.

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Update (1624ET): COVID-​19 has killed more than 30,000 human beings around the world.

It looks like those last 300+ deaths out of France pushed it over the top.

Though Italy has been car­ry­ing a lot of weight on the deaths front lately…

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Update (1600ET): Want to see some­thing funny? Watch what hap­pens when jour­nal­ists from Tai­wan ques­tion the WHO about com­ments it made regard­ing Taiwan’s response to the virus.

oh. my. god. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​G​A​w​E​j​5​y​v​T​0

— masks work (@wilfredchan) March 28, 2020

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Update (1500ET):France reports just shy of 5k new cases, bring­ing its total to 37,575, and another ~300 deaths, bring­ing its death toll to 2,314.

Mean­while, the num­ber of Ital­ian cases of COVID-​19 climbed by 6.9%, the slow­est daily rate of increase since Italy’s lock­down began.

Ital­ian cases of #COVID19 rise 6.9%, the slow­est daily rate of increase we have seen dur­ing the lock­down period https://t.co/140SeQbEgT

— Conor (@Conor_Coops) March 28, 2020

Two weeks since report­ing its first case, Cameroon total cases climbed to 99 on Sat­ur­day, as African coun­tries report sur­pris­ingly slow spread of the virus despite their rel­a­tively poor infrastructure.

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Update (1420ET):As the death toll sky­rock­ets, Span­ish offi­cials said they would need to tighten quar­an­tine rules, and are now order­ing all peo­ple to stay indoors at all times, unless they’re going to work at an “essen­tial” job. We expect the bare min­i­mum of excep­tions (trips out­side per­mit­ted to get food) will continue.

Mean­while, in France, large num­bers of the pub­lic con­tinue to ignore the quarantine.

Spread­ing coro­n­avirus in France — This is what the 12^th day of “con­fine­ment” means for some peo­ple in Parispic​.twit​ter​.com/​L​G​k​a​Z​P​4​J​a​l

— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) March 28, 2020

Though France’s health min­is­ter said Sat­ur­day that the coun­try could soon face short­ages of crit­i­cal drugs, he assured the pub­lic that an order for 1 bil­lion masks had recently been put in to ‘China’.

In Italy, the tone was far more somber.

WATCH: Ital­ian police offi­cers salute those who died of coro­n­avirus as their bod­ies are trans­ported in mil­i­tary vehi­cles pic​.twit​ter​.com/​L​i​f​k​5​p​W​i​Y​c

— BNO News­room (@BNODesk) March 28, 2020

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Update (1412ET):The coro­n­avirus out­break has pit­ted many inter­ests against one another in the scram­ble for resources. But some of the most fla­grant exam­ples of com­mu­nal self­ish­ness so far have occurred in ritzy Con­necti­cut, where a town full of wealthy bankers and doc­tors shut down a drive thru test­ing cen­ter (well, they stopped it from open­ing in the first place), and now, Yale Uni­ver­sity is at the cen­ter of a con­tro­versy after refus­ing to allow the town access to any of its (now empty) facil­i­ties to help the com­mu­nity fight off the virus.

Last fall, a gang of ide­al­is­tic Yale stu­dents inter­rupted the Yale-​Harvard Game, one of the few tra­di­tions that locals actu­ally enjoy, with an lengthy “inter­rup­tion” to protest cli­mate change, or what­ever. But on this issue, they have been oddly silent (maybe because they’re all back home liv­ing in their par­ents’ base­ments right now).

One reporter remarked on twit­ter that this would be an excel­lent oppor­tu­nity for Yale alumni to pres­sure the school into doing the right thing and help­ing the community.

Huge oppor­tu­nity here for Yale alums to pub­licly pres­sure the uni­ver­sity into doing the right thing while also get­ting to note in pass­ing that you went to Yale https://t.co/rPnpyywvAr

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 27, 2020

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Update (1400ET):Abe said Sat­ur­day that he’s at a pre­car­i­ous stage, and that the gov­ern­ment is only barely avoid­ing declar­ing an emer­gency, he said told reporters Sat­ur­day evening.

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Update (1355ET):Trump just con­firmed that he’s strongly con­sid­er­ing quarantines…after he told a reporter with a cam­era exactly that.

So in case you didn’t get the memo…

I am giv­ing con­sid­er­a­tion to a QUAR­AN­TINE of devel­op­ing “hot spots”, New York, New Jer­sey, and Con­necti­cut. A deci­sion will be made, one way or another, shortly.

— Don­ald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2020

Cuomo says he hasn’t heard any­thing about a quar­an­tine order.

And the gov­er­nors of Con­necti­cut and New Jer­sey haven’t said anything.

Noth­ing yet from @GovNedLamont on Pres­i­dent Trump con­sid­er­ing quar­an­tine for part of CT, along with NY and New Jer­sey. https://t.co/Gj10CKC5hu

— Nick Rondi­none (@nickrondinone) March 28, 2020

Gov Phil Mur­phy has been tweet­ing up a storm, but noth­ing about the quar­an­tine issue.

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Update (1245ET): As the US scram­bles to con­tain COVID-​19 as New York emerges as the nation’s No. 1 hotspot, US media are report­ing that Pres­i­dent Trump is con­sid­er­ing a national “quar­an­tine” order affect­ing the entire tri-​state area — that is, all of NYC, the greater New York area, north and most of cen­tral New Jer­sey and all of south­ern Connecticut.

NBC News described it as an “enforce­able” quar­an­tine, imply­ing that the national guard, which has been deployed in the area, might be tasked with enforc­ing it.

In a video that sur­faced a few min­utes later, Trump can be heard telling an NBC reporter that he was look­ing at quar­an­tines of New York, and “prob­a­bly” New Jer­sey and parts of Con­necti­cut. “They’re hav­ing prob­lems down in Florida…and we don’t want that,” Trump said.

A few min­utes later, Gov. Cuomo chimed in, telling a reported that he had no idea what Trump was talk­ing about, even though Trump claimed to have just spo­ken to the gov­er­nor, pre­sum­ably about the pos­si­bil­ity of a quar­an­tine, which Trump said might be announced “some time today.”

JUST IN: Pres­i­dent @realDonaldTrump now says he’s con­sid­er­ing imple­ment­ing a “quar­an­tine” of hot spots in north­east, like New York City, and restrict­ing travel.pic​.twit​ter​.com/​3​q​n​z​H​T​C​C​W​x

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) March 28, 2020

Mean­while, in New York, the NYPD has con­firmed the death of a detec­tive, the first on-​duty ser­vice­man to die from the virus. Another ~500 or so NYPD employ­ees (that includes offi­cers and civil­ians) have also been diagnosed.

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Update (1220ET): In Lom­bardy, the num­ber of con­firmed cases climbed by 2,117 to 39,415, a sign that the out­break might be start­ing to slow. But the death toll climbed by a star­tling 542 to 5,944.

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Update (1100ET):The Pen­ta­gon is tak­ing steps to clar­ify its pow­ers now that it has the abil­ity to call up reservists and retirees.

• PEN­TA­GON SAYS IT HAS ACCEL­ER­ATED THE PROCESS FOR HOW DEPART­MENT OF DEFENSE AUTHO­RIZES THE USE OF NATIONAL GUARD FORCES UNDER TITLE 32

Addi­tion­ally, Italy has now passed China in total infec­tions, with 86,498 to China’s 81,996. Fol­low­ing sev­eral days of back-​and-​forth crit­i­cism with Michi­gan Gov. Gretchen Whit­mer, whom Pres­i­dent Trump infa­mously referred to as “that woman” and crit­i­cized for not tak­ing the out­break seri­ously enough, the pres­i­dent finally granted her request for a dis­as­ter dec­la­ra­tion, as well as one for Mass­a­chu­setts, accord­ing to White House state­ments released Sat­ur­day. And the Ital­ian death toll has passed 10,000, hit­ting 10,023.

Finally, some good news out of Italy: A cen­te­nar­ian from north­ern Italy has report­edly been released from a hos­pi­tal after a bat­tle with COVID-​19 that he man­aged to sur­vive despite being a high-​risk can­di­date with a weak immune system..

The man, iden­ti­fied only as “Mr. P”, was admit­ted to the hos­pi­tal last week and released on Thurs­day, accord­ing to Glo­ria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the city of Rim­ini, told the local Ital­ian lan­guage press.

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Yes­ter­day, the US reached a crit­i­cal mile­stone: it became the first coun­try to record more than 100,000 cases of COVID-​19, the ill­ness caused by the novel coronavirus.

Though more peo­ple were almost cer­tainly infected in China — epi­demi­ol­o­gists have esti­mated that hun­dreds of thou­sands were likely infected in Wuhan alone — the surge in America’s test­ing capac­ity, some­thing that’s only going to con­tinue to improve thanks to a slate of new rapid-​response tests are hit­ting the mar­ket, means the US will almost cer­tainly record the largest num­ber of infected patients going forward.

Already, the global total of con­firmed cases sur­passed 600,000 overnight, thanks mostly to the US, though Spain and Italy also reported large num­bers of new cases and deaths reaf­firm­ing that the lock­downs in each of their respec­tive coun­tries are far from over.

A chart pro­duced by the New York Times and pub­lished last night sparked a heated debate online as jour­nal­ists, sci­en­tists and other wannabe ‘experts’ weighed in on the pos­si­bil­ity that the out­breaks in New York City, Detroit and New Orleans might be more severe than what Italy has seen in Lombardy.

Source: New York Times

Mean­while, Spain recorded its dead­liest day so far, but new infec­tions are slow­ing after two weeks of lock­down. The Span­ish Health Min­istry reported 832 new deaths, bring­ing the country’s death toll to 5,690 as of early Sat­ur­day, a 17% jump. The num­ber of con­firmed cases climbed to 72,248 from 64,059. Spain now has the second-​highest num­ber of deaths, out­side of Italy.

In the lat­est hint at how the outbreak-​induced reces­sion will rever­ber­ate through sec­ondary and ter­tiary indus­tries, Airbnb con­firmed on Fri­day that it’s sus­pend­ing all third-​party mar­ket­ing work in an attempt to save some $800 mil­lion, one of sev­eral ini­tia­tives that it hopes will save the com­pany lots of money dur­ing the cri­sis. As UK Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son and his Health Sec­re­tary Matt Han­cock strug­gle to con­tinue per­form­ing their duties after being diag­nosed with COVID-​19, Fitch down­graded the UK’s credit rat­ing from AA to AA-​, cit­ing the bud­get impact of the coro­n­avirus pan­demic and con­tin­ued uncer­tainty over Brexit.

Source: FT

As a third UK cab­i­net min­is­ter, Scot­tish Sec­re­tary Alis­ter Jack, announces plans to quar­an­tine after show­ing mild symp­toms, Japan­ese Prime Min­is­ter Shinzo Abe pledged on Sat­ur­day to fight the coro­n­avirus out­break with an eco­nomic pack­age of “an unprece­dented scale” as Japan reports a sud­den resur­gence of cases, many of which have been travel-​related.

On Sat­ur­day, the UK case total climbed to 17,089, while 160 new deaths were con­firmed, bring­ing the UK death total above 1,000, to 1,019.

Accord­ing to Nikkei Asian Review, Abe said that in addi­tion to push­ing through his “boldest-​ever” eco­nomic stim­u­lus pack­age, his gov­ern­ment will deliver speedy approval of the flu drug Avi­gan as a treat­ment for those infected with COVID-​19.

“We are on the brink,” Abe said at a news con­fer­ence, refer­ring to the pos­si­bil­ity of an explo­sion of COVID-​19 cases in Japan after 63 new infec­tions were con­firmed on Sat­ur­day in Tokyo, a third-​consecutive day where author­i­ties con­firmed more than 40 new cases.

Abe also stressed that Japan must be ready for a “long-​term bat­tle” to keep COVID-​19 from surg­ing out of con­trol and over­whelm­ing health care sys­tems, as it’s begin­ning to do in Italy and other places, like NYC.

Still, he said “now is not an emer­gency” and called on cit­i­zens to con­tinue tak­ing steps such as avoid­ing large gath­er­ings to limit infections.

Abe

Regard­ing the econ­omy, Abe said that his gov­ern­ment will for­mu­late a “strong stim­u­lus pack­age of unprece­dented scale” to lessen this blow to busi­nesses and indi­vid­u­als brought about by the coro­n­avirus. All of this comes after Tokyo’s gov­er­nor warned about the prospect for an “unprece­dented” out­break if noth­ing is done.

In addi­tion to boost­ing spend­ing on med­ical infra­struc­ture and other neces­si­ties, Abe said a spe­cial mea­sure will be estab­lished to allow for the defer­ral for up to one year of tax and social insur­ance pre­mium pay­ments to sup­port cor­po­ra­tions suf­fer­ing from con­stricted cash flow. Also, interest-​free and unse­cured lend­ing will be expanded to assist them, he said. All of this should trickle down to deferred tax pay­ments for indi­vid­u­als as well.

Mean­while, the New York Post has been keep­ing care­ful track of how many New York­ers have been dying from COVID-​19, and on Sat­ur­day, the paper deter­mined that for the past two days, New York­ers have been dying at a rate of “one every 17 min­utes”. That’s up from one an hour nearly a week ago.

On both Thurs­day and Fri­day, another 84 peo­ple died in the city from the coro­n­avirus, as the num­ber of pos­i­tive cases and of those who are crit­i­cally ill also climbed. Total city­wide coro­n­avirus cases rose to 26,697, a 4.4% increase from the 25,573 reported Fri­day morning.

Over in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Sin­ga­pore, and Hong Kong have recorded unnerv­ing bursts of new cases over the past cou­ple of weeks, but these ‘after­shock’ out­breaks appear to have qui­eted down in South Korea, while more cases have been con­firmed in Sin­ga­pore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Mean­while, In Seoul, author­i­ties marked a new mile­stone in the fight against the virus as, for the first time since the start of the out­break, the num­ber of coro­n­avirus patients being dis­charged has out­num­bered those cur­rently under­go­ing treat­ment. Some 4,811 South Kore­ans have recov­ered from the virus as of Sat­ur­day, while 4,500 patients still remain in iso­la­tion and are under­go­ing treatment.

In the US, Trump signed the CARES Act into law last night, approv­ing direct pay­ments of $1,200 to mil­lions of Amer­i­cans, includ­ing those earn­ing up to $75,000, and an addi­tional $500 per child. It will sub­stan­tially expand job­less aid, pro­vid­ing an addi­tional 13 weeks and a four-​month enhance­ment of ben­e­fits, and for the first time will extend the pay­ments to free­lancers and gig work­ers, an extra­or­di­nary step that will go a long way toward quelling the con­cerns of all those free­lance writ­ers who live off hand­outs from their par­ents and the occa­sional pay­check in Brooklyn.

How­ever, across the US, experts are point­ing at Abe and Japan as exam­ples of what might hap­pen if the entire coun­try starts going back to nor­mal before the out­break is truly under control.

As Navy hos­pi­tal ships head to New York and the West Coast, Pres­i­dent Trump on Fri­day night gave Defense Sec­re­tary Mark Esper the power to call up national guards­men and army medics to serve in the effort to com­bat the virus. The pres­i­dent said Fri­day night that the deci­sion will “allow us to mobi­lize med­ical, dis­as­ter and emer­gency response per­son­nel to help wage our bat­tle against the virus by acti­vat­ing thou­sands of expe­ri­enced ser­vice mem­bers includ­ing retirees.”

The ships will travel to New York and Los Angeles.

WHAT A BEAUTY: The USNS Mercy, one of the #Navy’s two hos­pi­tal ships, will begin tak­ing patients from pier­side in Los Ange­les to relieve over­bur­dened med­ical facil­i­ties in the city as it strug­gles to han­dle the coro­n­avirus out­break. https://t.co/Qc1RCoPLWn#covid19 #losan­ge­les pic​.twit​ter​.com/​l​p​r​L​x​G​L​x​g​1

— wdsu (@wdsu) March 27, 2020

The order will affect reservists and “cer­tain Indi­vid­ual Ready Reserve” mem­bers, chief Pen­ta­gon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoff­man said in a state­ment released just after mid­night on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. The Indi­vid­ual Ready Reserve com­prises for­mer active-​duty and reserve ser­vice mem­bers who are com­monly con­sid­ered ‘out of the mil­i­tary’ and thus rarely recalled.

It almost sounds like the start of an action movie: some­where, in the remote moun­tain west, a for­mer ace army medic is hear­ing the sound of tires crunch­ing gravel in his driveway…

After Pres­i­dent Trump’s approval rat­ing jumped to record highs in the wake of the cri­sis, some early poll results from this past week sug­gest that Trump’s insis­tence that the US get back to work “by Easter” has dented con­fi­dence in his han­dling of the crisis.

Per WaPo, Trump didn’t clar­ify whether any­one will be invol­un­tar­ily recalled to duty, but said some retirees have “offered to sup­port the nation in this extra­or­di­nary time of need.”

A Pen­ta­gon spokesman told WaPo that the order was still being reviewed, and that gen­er­ally, these mem­bers will be per­sons in Head­quar­ters units and per­sons with high demand med­ical capa­bil­i­ties whose call-​up would not adversely affect their civil­ian communities.

“It’s really an incred­i­ble thing to see,” Trump said. “It’s beautiful.”

Though we sus­pect that, like his deci­sion to invoke the Defense Pro­duc­tion Act, though he finally did invoke it to try and boss around GM.