ids. You're gonna have to lie to them. You're gonna have to lie to them and tell them it's a law otherwise there's no chance of compliance. And even then there's not much chance but it would help.

So I would like my government to, assuming schools close, to do some kind of an executive order. Obviously there's no such thing as a binding order of this type. It wouldn't really be legally binding but parents could use it. They can still tell their kid, look there's an executive order from the president that says you got to stay inside. It's not me, you know. Take the pressure off the parents. That's all I'm asking.

Apparently China, I'd seen stories about this but honestly didn't believe it. You know I'd heard stories that Chinese officials were starting to blame the United States for putting the virus in China or starting it ourselves or something like that. And I thought no, that's crazy. The Chinese government is not blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus. That would just be nuts. And then I saw it. It's actually happening. China at real officials, you know people with titles on Twitter and stuff are actually blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus. To which I say, thanks a lot. Oh man I just stopped myself from really swearing a lot. My cursing reflex was just right on the barrel there. Thank you China for guaranteeing decoupling.

You know there were a lot of reasons to decouple before this virus came out and I've been one of the most vocal people saying we should do it. Now that doesn't mean we do it tomorrow. It just means that that should be a national strategy to get our stuff out of China, move our manufacturing back and become less dependent. Because they actually not only did they blame us for it but here's the good part. The good part being the bad part. China actually has threatened to withhold antibiotics for political reasons. What are you kidding me? We have critical manufacturing in a country that just threatened to use access to medicine as a weapon against us. Decoupling is on. There isn't anything that could stop decoupling now.

Let me state this as a fact and see if any of you disagree with it. Four months ago when I was putting the hashtag decouple in every other tweet and I was saying people people people we have to decouple, you know other people were saying it too, I'm not the only one, but wasn't the general reaction to that, well that's a little extreme. We're not going to decouple from, you know they're, I mean we got our problems we'll work through it. It's normal. We're not going to decouple. What do you think now? Now that we put critical pharmaceuticals in China and they just threatened to use that against us. Now maybe they won't. My guess is they won't use it against us. It would be too dangerous. But once they've threatened that's the end of the story. You know there's, you've got lots of variables that you say oh how do I weigh this variable and should we decouple and maybe we shouldn't. Well we can work this thing out we can work that thing out and we could put up with this so now you know we don't really need to decouple. I see your argument but you know it's sort of a gray area. Not anymore. It's not a gray area now. When a country threatens to withhold antibiotics during a pandemic that removes all doubt. There's no longer any doubt. Decoupling has to happen and more importantly it will. There isn't any chance we're keeping our manufacturing in China anymore. That's over.

So whatever you're planning in terms of you know looking at the future of their world and what's going to happen with the economy etc., I'm hoping it's good news that we're bringing manufacturing back to the United States. But if you're wondering if we're going to decouple from China you know it'll probably be gradual but it's no longer if. It's no longer if. Once they've threatened our health it doesn't matter if it's an empty threat. Doesn't matter if they meant it. Doesn't matter if they really would have no intention of doing that. None of that matters. The threat is the end of the story. No conversations need to be had. No debate needs to happen anymore. We need to be on the same side on this. It's time to decouple. All right, it'll happen.

I see Trump blaming Obama for the CDC not being ready for the pandemic and you know you can make the argument that the other guy should have been more prepared but Trump's had three years on the job and you know it took eight years of Obama and three years of Trump to not be