A Never-ending Lockdown Would Invite Public Health Calamity, Donald Trump Says

President Donald Trump has said on Thursday May 21, 2020 that a never ending lockdown would only invite a public health calamity as the president insists that his country won’t been shutting down in case of any second outbreak of Coronavirus.

A permanent lockdown is not a strategy for a healthy state or a healthy country. Our country wasn’t meant to be shut down,” the president said.

We did the right thing but now it’s time to open it up. A never-ending lockdown would invite a public health calamity. To protect the health of our people we must have a functioning economy.”

The president has already expressed his desire for the country to reopen as soon as possible. Reports have it that over 30million Americans have lost their jobs due to the lockdown. With America being the most hit nation so far, it is unclear how the nation will reopen when there yet to be a vaccine.

People say that is a very distinct possibility. It’s standard. And we’re going to put out the fires. We’re not going to close the country. We’re going to put out the fires,” Trump told reporters during a tour of a Ford manufacturing plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., when asked if he was concerned about a second wave of COVID-19.

Trump expressed confidence in the country’s ability to contain future outbreaks, referring to them as “embers.”

“Whether it’s an ember or a flame, we’re going to put it out. But we’re not closing our country,” the president continued.

All 50 states have announced plans to begin loosening restrictions meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus, opening their economies at varying speeds so that Americans can begin to return to normal life.