Mnuchin Urges People To ‘Explore’ US Despite CDC Warning Against Non-Essential Travel

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during the daily briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on March 25, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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There’s a global pandemic going on, so what better time to have a picnic in Yosemite?

During an interview with Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo on Monday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said it was “too hard to tell at this point” whether international travel would be possible this year due to COVID-19.

“But it’s great time to explore America,” the Trump administration official told Bartiromo. “A lot of people haven’t seen many parts of America.”

“I wish I could get back on the road soon,” he added.

But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines urge people against embarking on any kind of non-essential travel, including road trips.

“Travel increases your chances of getting and spreading COVID-19,” the agency warned. “CDC recommends you stay home as much as possible, especially if your trip is not essential, and practice social distancing especially if you are at higher risk of severe illness.”

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  1. These idiots are only causing the stay at home orders to keep extending by allowing the virus to keep spreading, its not spreading at huge rates because most people are listening but if everyone listened we can clamp down on this a lot faster.

  2. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    “Please, won’t someone, anyone buy some oil?”

  3. Kinda hard to explore when everything’s shut down. There’s nowhere to go, and getting everyone travelling is the best way to keep it spreading nicely.

    Why more of these cretins haven’t been part of the Johns Hopkins dataset is beyond me.

  4. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    And the flip side (posted on the EU warning thread):

    European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Director Andrea Ammon told EU lawmakers Monday that “this is not going to end any time soon and people need to prepare mentally for it.”

    Had Trump not ignored the warnings?
    A lower death toll would have been the most welcome result.
    The secondary benefit might have been a period of normalcy between the predicted three waves of a novel virus pandemic.

    As it is, we’ve been ‘sentenced’ by Trump and his incompetent minions-- to a continuous lockdown. Forced to eschew social constructs that might help us as individuals to weather this first exposure until a vaccine can be engineered and distributed.

    Instead, any semblance of hope has been shrugged-off by idiots.
    While we have ‘not done the crime’? We are made ‘to do the time’.

  5. Mnuchin: Hey people stuck in area’s with high number of cases, go explore areas that don’t have high amounts of confirmed cases.
    Fauci: /facepalm

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