Posted on 04/13/2020 1:25:28 PM PDT by hoagy62
Today, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced an agreement on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future.
Joint statement from the governors:
COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. In the coming weeks, the West Coast will flip the script on COVID-19 – with our states acting in close coordination and collaboration to ensure the virus can never spread wildly in our communities.
We are announcing that California, Oregon and Washington have agreed to work together on a shared approach for reopening our economies – one that identifies clear indicators for communities to restart public life and business.
While each state is building a state-specific plan, our states have agreed to the following principles as we build out a West Coast framework:
Our residents’ health comes first. As home to one in six Americans and gateway to the rest of the world, the West Coast has an outsized stake in controlling and ultimately defeating COVID-19. Health outcomes and science – not politics - will guide these decisions. Modifications to our states’ stay at home orders must be made based off our understanding of the total health impacts of COVID-19, including: the direct impact of the disease on our communities; the health impact of measures introduced to control the spread in communities —particularly felt by those already experiencing social disadvantage prior to COVID-19; and our health care systems’ ability to ensure care for those who may become sick with COVID-19 and other conditions. This effort will be guided by data. We need to see a decline in the rate of spread of the virus before large-scale reopening, and we will be working in coordination to identify the best metrics to guide this. Our states will only be effective by working together. Each state will work with it’s local leaders and communities within its borders to understand what’s happening on the ground and adhere to our agreed upon approach. Through quick and decisive action, each of our states has made significant progress in flattening the curve and slowing the spread of COVID-19 among the broader public. Now, our public health leaders will focus on four goals that will be critical for controlling the virus in the future.
Protecting vulnerable populations at risk for severe disease if infected. This includes a concerted effort to prevent and fight outbreaks in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Ensuring an ability to care for those who may become sick with COVID-19 and other conditions. This will require adequate hospital surge capacity and supplies of personal protective equipment. Mitigating the non-direct COVID-19 health impacts, particularly on disadvantaged communities. Protecting the general public by ensuring any successful lifting of interventions includes the development of a system for testing, tracking and isolating. The states will work together to share best practices. COVID-19 doesn’t follow state or national boundaries. It will take every level of government, working together, and a full picture of what’s happening on the ground.
In the coming days the governors, their staff and health officials will continue conversations about this regional pact to recovery.
Keeping the west coast economies constrained, preventing their obtaining herd immunity in 2020, insuring that either massive shutdowns are continued into 2021 or a large new wave of infections begins again from late 2020 into 2021.
You can only obtain herd immunity. You chose to get it as early as possible, or you need to get it sooner or later. Total death rates from 1st infection to herd immunity not likely massively different with either approach. But one approach requires destroying the economy and needing to rebuild it. The other doesn’t.
Message to Trump. Screw you, we want to make sure economy stays down so you are defeated in November. These governors could care less about public health. Bring on depression and suicide. This pact is totally political.
Recall, Newsom called California a “nation state “
https://news.yahoo.com/gavin-newsom-declares-california-nation-160012325.html
Map of the Day: Ex-KGB Analyst Predicts Balkanization of U.S.
PATRICK OTTENHOFF
JUNE 29, 2010
While they were cozying up in America, a prominent Russian professor named Igor Panarin was making rounds in that country’s policy-making circles, also doing his best to undermine America. The map below is his creation. Released in 1998, it predicted the breakup of the U.S. into six pieces by 2010.
I hope they don't think we're going to be paying the same property taxes because many people will go bankrupt....
thx to fearpers who handed this power to the rats on a silver platter......
That’s EXACTLY what’s going on!
and the more I read this, it sounds like some party people will get opened first and the ones they don’t like might never open or open late....
Bingo
Three Blue States working together against our President. What could go right?
Nowhere in this very lengthy statement/pact is the mention of helping the economic well-being of the people (other than the phrase: “approach for reopening our economies”). Disgusting, but unfortunately not surprising.
They should elect a Western States Czar.
I’d nominate Sandra Fluke.
It’s all a bluff. If some states start opening the libs cannot stand the pressure not to open. Wait and see.
Trump declared a national emergency....he should come on and say that the national emergency is oover and the states should open up the economy for the people....
“If they dont reopen by mid May, when some states have done so, expect riots.
There is no way these states can hold out while other states are free.”
Those are liberals, for the most part. If the wise and wonderful government demands it, they will comply.
Sure feels like a civil war in the making
This could be the makings of a whole new communist country comprised of what was once California, Oregon and Washington. I wonder what it will be called; maybe the West Coast Gulag.
The eastern half to two thirds of all three states are red as they can be. They’re hastening the creation of a new conservative state or two.
There is going to be a rush to re-open soon. By end of April, most states will have been closed 30 days and state/county tax coffers will start to dry up. Then, as budgets are reworked and state/county workers lose planned raises and maybe even furloughed, we will open in a hurry.
I’m drafting an open letter to our gov demanding her resignation on that very topic.
These type of regional alliances are going to become more widespread as states compete with each other for PPE and other resources in the open market.
Gulf coast states may be next.
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