On March 16, 2020, after spending the weekend with his public health advisors, Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Deborah Birx, with President Trump, in a press conference announced the US will go into lockdown for 15 days to get “people separated” to get the virus contained or to “flatten the curve”. The “15 days to slow the spread” communication [5]. Dr Birx referenced the UK Imperial Model of “social distancing” is used as justification for such unprecedented, extreme measures. [1, 2, 4, 6]
“This press conference is what unleashed the political panic. States all over the country locked down.”
Never before had healthy people been locked-down or quarantined, but Dr Birx, former military, pushed for these measures. There was no science to support this non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to control a respiratory virus, as revealed in an October 2019 WHO report. [It failed]
Previously:
- On March 9, 2020, Trump was still of the opinion that the virus could be handled by normal means. [7]
- On March 12, 2020 President Trump misread the teleprompter saying “that the travel ban would include goods” triggering the first stockmarket fall (Black Thursday), then
- on Monday March 16, 2020 following the announcement of the lockdown plan, the second stock market fall was triggered and the market crashed 3,000 points, the largest point drop in history.