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Almost all of the stock market gains from yesterday are gone.

We cannot grind our economy to a halt every single time China intentionally or unintentionally releases a new pathogen on the world.

Team Panic has no ideas other than longterm economic and cultural damage.
We have to learn to live with protocols that allow us to carry on with our lives while protecting the vulnerable.

As dangerous as this is for certain groups, the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus is not Ebola.

We have to make structural changes to truly protect us.

That includes...
That includes economic and socio-cultural changes.

1. Supply chains for products in demand under new norm.

Look at Honeywell. Great example of how domestic production can quickly meet crisis demand for products that NEVER should've been outsourced in the first place.
That has to serve as a template for everything from face masks to pharmaceuticals.

There are industries that can't be outsourced for national security reasons. We need to start thinking bigger and add many, many other sectors to that list.

Globalism over nation-state is a myth.
Our over-reliance on foreign, hostile nations for products necessary for normality under such conditions has long been thought of as a "rightwing conspiracy" to our political and elitist classes.

Until now.

We can't do this again. It's negligent and our system can't take it.
Think about how our children will suffer these edu setbacks from closures. They could literally be behind just as much as if they were left back a grade.

Are we supposed to hold our children back a grade each time China or another hostile nation unleashes a new pathogen on us?
For years, @realDonaldTrump and "rightwing conspiracy theorists" have warned about these very scenarios.

The vast majority of his critics helped to bake these vulnerabilities into our system and now we suffer the consequences of their actions.

But he's now the president and...
But he's now the president and he needs to step up with radical changes to this system.

Now is his chance. Now is all their chances.

Payroll tax cuts are BS. They take far too long to have an impact unless they have a new plan.

Jobs must be saved and even added.
Americans go big, they make big changes when the times call for it and they rise to the occasion.

Jobs must be saved, and we must go big/bold.

I'm talking about CREATING jobs by opening up completely new supply lines that never should've been outsourced in the first place.
Out of one side of their mouths, the "experts" tell us the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus is a "new" deadly unknown.

Out of the other side, these same "experts" assure us it is not bioterrorism.

I'll rule out nothing without solid evidence, expect the worst.
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