Tried it.
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.
The federal government can regulate interstate commerce
This is a bad idea. Best if challenging the President to be a stand alone state
Otherwise they would do something other than merely move to, change and corrupt, civilized states. If they weren't terminally stupid when it comes to news, they might do something constructive like, change their states.
Time to get recall going against ALL Governors, nation wide, that have decided they are members of a Monarchy.
There is still a constitution no matter how the Left wishes it was gone.
Governors do NOT have unlimited power. They all need to be reminded of that cold hard fact.
Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution provides that “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.”
Looks pretty ironclad to me
It’s a mutual economic suicide pact, there being no clear standards for quick reopening.
MOAB the power house. It's easy to see, the target can be lased from the surrounded hills. COW does not have a functional air defense system, and when state governments are in rebellion... It will take a few years to rebuild, but the COW government will have long since been "sterilized".
Option B, nuke Portland from orbit.
Like the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact it’s ruse by California to distract until they’re strong enough to go on the offensive.
Great! Are going to secede? That would be super!!
Seeing a decline in rate of spread of virus does not necessarily justify large-scale reopening imo.
All that new spreading of virus takes is one contagious, undocumented Democrat.
Insights welcome.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping COVID-19 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.
MAGA, also KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
“There maybe a Constitutional sentence or two on the subject.”
There definitely is. Article I, Section 10, clause 3 Provides:
“No State shall, without the consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State[.]
“This will be based on SCIENCE (praise science) and DATA and won’t be political AT all!
Therefore our first actions will be to protect illegals and minorities and those of the LGBT persuasion who are affected more by the virus then white people.”
I see a LOT of political and questionable nonsense in that manifesto. You know what I don’t see? What’s the point of cooperating other than to politically entrench the Democrat power base for the upcoming election?
This is borderline sedition.
Damn, where is our “..and so it begins.” guy when we need him?
The Commie Confederacy
“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.”
Particularly true because most states have delayed their individual income tax return due dates to July 15 to coincide with the Federal delay.
Three states to add to my Blacklist...
That gives the Democrats a lock on all West Coast ports.
That gives the Democrats [and also the Chinese] a lock on all West Coast ports.
My niece & her family live in Portland OR. I hope they leave soon for their last taste of freedom.
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