President Donald Trump has called the efforts to combat COVID-19 “our big war.” He has referred to himself as a “wartime president” and of his administration’s efforts as a “war against the virus.” Last week he spoke of the virus as “an invisible enemy.”
And to provide confidence as well as calm, he has also iterated many times that this will not be forever, tweeting Monday: “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem, at the end of the 15-day period we will make a decision as to which way we want to go.”
Still, state and local governments are also engaging with war-like statements by governors and mayors, several of whom have issued shelter-in-place orders, quarantines and travel bans. More will soon join.
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