CORONAVIRUS: WHY NOT JUST MASK, INSTEAD OF THE SHELTER IN PLACE?

ICHEOKU says the government should have just issued a nationwide order to wear protective mask by everyone, especially those still in the workforce, instead of the shelter at home measure being implemented by various States. A policy, which is now crushing the American economy further, in addition to other aspects of American life which are already being asphyxiated by the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus. It is a war alright, but countries don't usually shut down because of war; not even Britain was shutdown during World War 11 when Germany was trying to bomb London out of existence. So, why the United States of America? 

The damage to America's economy will be more difficult to recover from than the direct deaths and sicknesses which the Coronavirus will cause; so the whirling economic engine should not have been allowed to sputter out due to the virus. Every effort and risk should have been made and taken to keep the wheels churning, but to allow America to grind to a halt just because a virus is spreading is not just acceptable nor is it the best option. A matter made even more tolerable because the recovery rate is very high and as with other viral diseases, not everyone will be infected nor equally impacted. It should have been treated like a war situation and various battle fields, people who cannot function should be replaced with healthier people to keep the engines of the economy roaring. 

Just like soldiers die in war fronts and are replaced with more soldiers, the economy should have continued to run in the same fashion; but to completely grind everything to a halt is not the American way or has America become so weak that a great generation cannot rise out of the situation. So what if some people succumb to the virus, people die daily anyway, regardless. A land of the brave should have been more courageous during this time of great peril but not to completely surrender to a virus. 

Doctors, nurses and other medical workers on the frontline in hospitals are still alive and thriving; so, if face masks could keep them protected from infection, why not apply the same measure to the rest of the country through a nationwide order to wear mask by everyone and keep the country open. Such a measure would have achieved the same purpose, to protect people from being infected, which the shelter in place order is purposed to achieve. But unlike the later, people would have still gone to their jobs, factories would have remained opened, as well as other businesses, small and large, which have been booming since the great economic miracle of this past three years plus. If masks could protect against community spread of the virus, why not adopt it instead of shutting every place down. 

Were ICHEOKU formulating the Coronavirus policy, would take the wear your mask route, which would have served America better, instead of the current shelter in place devastation being wrecked on America's economic and social wellbeing. People are ordered to stay at home to avoid community spread of the virus and medical workers wear protective masks to also avoid being infected by the already infected patients they are treating, a somewhat community (hospital) spread of the virus. Both ways, not spreading the virus is the main objective intended to be served; so, if protective masks can protect medical workers who are in constant contact with infected people, they can   also protect the general public who are not as in contact with infected people, as well. 

The only plausible argument in retort is that there are not enough masks to go around the entire population, but this is where the government would have scaled up the production of masks to meet the need. Asking people to stay at home is just an easy way out which on the long run will cause untoward damage to the economy. The cost to the economy of the shelter in place stay at home measure will surpass whatever amount which the providing of masks to the general public would have cost. 

Also, since the general public are not in confined space like hospital environment, their masks will last much longer, thus removing the need to replace their masks frequently, hence no run on masks. At worse too, only those who are still actively employed in jobs would be prioritized for masks distribution, so that they can wear their masks as they go to their workplaces to keep the engine of the economy humming. Anything to keep the economy going, should have been preferred to the total shut down being currently experienced. 

It is heart rending watching all the gains of the past three years flushed down the sewer just because of a virus, whose origin is known but how it originated is still a mystery; thus begging the question, did the Deep State strike so devastatingly to ensure that the president did not secure a second term berth in the White House. Something about the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus has been bothering ICHEOKU ever since it broke out. It smells of a purposeful outbreak, intended to achieve a certain end; which but for the president decisively leading the war against the virus, those agents of doom would have succeeded. 

But American people know that the president did not bring about the virus and they have also seen how decisively he is leading the effort against the virus. They have also come to the same conclusion that no other person would have been better in the White House at this time of great tribulation and leading the effort than President Donald John Trump. American people are fair and will not punish the president for something that is not his fault and will, on November 3, vote to reelect him and let the battle tested, steady hand of the president to remain on the tiller of State. 

ICHEOKU says has no scintilla of doubt that the president will be reelected for a second term on November 3, 2020. He has done enough to earn his reelection, the sudden Chinese Coronavirus triggered economic nose dive notwithstanding. The president did not cause the virus to break out, the Chinese people did; and the president is doing his possible best and as is humanly possible to arrest the pandemic. American people appreciates his glaring effort ; moreover, they do not change horses mid stream and for a president who is fighting as hard as President Donald John Trump is fighting for America, especially in this particular time of great affliction, they will renew his contract with America for four more years. 

ICHEOKU says wishes the president and his Taskforce on Coronavirus all the best as they strive to solve the Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus problem. God's speed.