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.
Buncha East Coast states doing the same thing.
The coronavirus is practically non-existent in all 3 states at this point. There is really no justification to delay re-opening past Monday, May 4th at the latest.
“...and the great decrease in state tax revenues will force them to open sooner...”
They’ll be going to the federal government for a bail out.
Sort of like the Warsaw Pact?
Water. Like the knife in the middle of the table. To California, Oregon and Washington had better enjoy being annexed.
The Stalin-Mao-Pol Pot management firm.
any formal pact between states is illegal without consent of congress.
not one federal dime to bailout these states - their state tax revenues will dry up.
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Agree.
Maybe POTUS can just announce a virtual wall around these states....with fines for anyone trespassing into other states.
Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo come to mind as well.
W.O.C might make more sense since it is a Chinese Virus.
Fine by me. Just stop that wall at roughly the northern part Sacramento County. Up here in NorCal we consider this region The State of Jefferson.
Well screw Idaho, Nevada and Utah , eh?
How about Montana and Wyoming?
Bunch of idiots.
The Democrats want as much damage to be inflicted on the economy as possible. They think this will win them the White House.
Communist states run on tax dollars. Every day that goes by, there’s none.
Even the most leftist of states — maybe even more likely the leftist states — will have to open soon.
“It will take every level of government, working together, and a full picture of what’s happening on the ground.”
Check the sky for drones before leaving your house.
Their compacts are worthless no matter what they think,say or sign. It is Constitutionally ILLEGAL.
Sooner or later even fascist state governor’s and comrade mayors need their tax money fix.
**pour economy**
What are you pouring?
Did you mean POOR economy?
I can’t even imagine those kind of people (Hollywood, hippies, homeless) running a country, or even forming a community of their own.
Call me a skeptic. I sense this is a political move.
From a Yahoo Finance article (link below), “......The announcements of these
coalitions came shortly after President Donald Trump said on Twitter that the decision to reopen the government would be determined by the White House, creating a potential sticking point in deciding the ultimate path to easing weeks-long social distancing measures across the nation.......”
An East Coast and West Coast coalition of Democratic State Governors. A curious timing. I am sure there is nothing to see.
Then again the Constitution’s Commerce clause give both Interstate and International commerce and trade control to the federal government. I suspect there may be political mischief afoot.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-updates-april-14-2020-221136911.html
Didn’t Justice Roberts deliver a bit of a blow to the commerce clause in his Obamacare ruling?
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