Our President shares how cancelling gatherings can slow the spread of the virus and save lives

[DesertRat]

@BarackObama
If you’re wondering whether it’s an overreaction to cancel large gatherings and public events (and I love basketball), here’s a useful primer as to why these measures can slow the spread of the virus and save lives. We have to look out for each other.
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/10/21171481/coronavirus-us-cases-quarantine-cancellation

Link to tweet

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1. My president! nt

[520to17]

2. Love him

Brought a tear to my eye. I love and miss him what a wonderful human being

[gristy]

3. That is such an important graph - and really well done here.

So cool to see President Obama tweeting it.

[Thekaspervote]

4. My president...still looking out for all of us

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5. Self- home- quarantine doesn't work, China tried that at first but found that 90% of

new cases were gotten from family clusters. Just heard on "The Daily" on NPR.

Here's how I remember hearing it --

China - they measure everyone's temperature -- when you enter a building, when you get home (a committee of the apartment complex takes your temperature), and so on. If you have a fever, you are separated, and then dealt with by medical people dressed head-to-toe in protective gear. If they have a flu test available, they administer that. They do a white blood cell count. They ask questions about symptoms. If you are still a coronavirus suspect, they do a CT scan on you -- these are portable CT scanners that do about 200 scans a day, not like the big ones in hospitals that take 30 minutes or so. If you are still a suspect, you end up in some portable hospital. There is no home quarantine -- they found that didn't work as they found that about 90% of new cases were in family clusters.

South Korea -- pretty much doing the same thing.

All other countries, including even Italy, just aren't doing enough to begin to bring the daily new case loads down.

[warmfeet]

6. Certainly one of the best Presidents we have ever had.

We may want to listen to what he says.

Barack.

[Talitha]

7. I expected to see donnie dum-dum with a sharpie.

Seeing our beloved President just raised my spirits - thank you for posting!

[IronLionZion]

8. I wish he were president right now

our next best chance at survival is Biden.

[DesertRat]

12. +1000

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9. Obama, are you coming home soon? The babysitter is really weird.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Perfect!

[LostinRed]

11. My forever president

Miss him so much at time like this