Posted on 05/22/2020 11:51:20 AM PDT by lightman
In a call with reporters Thursday, Wolf said his administration planned to announce “a whole range” of counties would move to the yellow phase. He also hinted that he may announce some counties will move to the “green” phase, or the final phase of reopening under which there are no restrictions on which establishments can and can’t be open, but social-distancing guidelines and other safety precautions remain in place.
The administration had established metrics to determine when counties would move from the red to the yellow phase, and the administration did so largely by region. Among those metrics were testing capacity and hospitalization rates, as well as a requirement that counties report fewer than 50 new cases per 100,000 residents over the course of 14 days, a mark no county in the southeastern part of the commonwealth has reached yet.
The county farthest from reaching that metric is Delaware, which has the highest per capita case rate of all counties in the Philadelphia region, according to state data.
But leaders in some counties, Bucks in particular, have been bullish on moving to the yellow phase and have pushed the administration to provide a timeline to do so. Asked Friday about the governor’s plan to move all counties to yellow by June 5, Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia said commissioners were “hopeful” that would be the case.
While Republicans in the General Assembly have for months pressured the administration to reopen parts of the economy more quickly, Democrats in southeastern Pennsylvania have also over the past week increased pressure on Wolf to communicate ways their counties could move to the yellow phase.
Other officials have pressured the administration to change its reopening metrics and count coronavirus cases in long-term care facilities as separate from other confirmed cases.
“We have been pleading with Harrisburg" to consider a different metric for southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware County Council Chairman Brian Zidek told residents late Wednesday in a video, and “Harrisburg, I think, is listening.”
Earlier Friday, 12 counties entered the yellow phase: Adams, Beaver, Carbon, Columbia, Cumberland, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Wayne and York.
Who knows. Maybe Trump has the DOJ investigating the tranny for pulling it’s own mother out of the nursing home.
Maybe enough Democrat Legislators are ready to flip that they can actually vote to end the emergency next time.
Just ignore the asshole and make the cops understand who their salary masters are!
This should have happened a month ago... and there is ZERO excuse for the continued restrictions.. .there is at present absolutely no chance of the system being overwhelmed... and should a hot spot develop, a localized response should happen, not this stupidity of wholesale close it all down
Thank you. That was helpful.
BREAKING UPDATE:
Effective May 29: Eight more counties go “yellow”
No list yet...
Effective May 29: The first 18 counties which had gone from red to yellow will go “GREEN”/
Wolfman and the Levine thing belong in prison.
Or perhaps Trump told the Governors that any bailout that lands on his desk with any part of the country still closed is DOA.
Wolf’s arbitrary metrics and sloppy data management have attracted attention of libs—who are now finally protesting lockdown, too. See #lancastercountycovid for graph of Covid-19 cases largely confined to nursing homes have shutdown this entire County of 544,000 for nearly 3 months. And there’s no end in sight unless Wolf dumps his irrelevant 50-new-cases/100,0000population threshold to allow his modest “yellow” reopening.
The YELLOW list effective May 29:
Dauphin, Franklin, Huntingdon, Lebanon, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, and Schuykill
Correction: 17 (not 18) go from yellow to green
The GREEN list effective May 29:
Bradford, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Montour, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Venango, and Warren.
Centre would have been the 18th but "local officials" fretted that they were not "ready."
So Tommie the Commie will listen to "local officials" who want longer restrictions but ignore those--Lancaster County in particular--who want restrictions lifted.
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER: Lancaster County tipped the state to Trump in 2016!
No we sure aren't. Montco has taken this on the chin, and our D leadership won't do anything to help the citizens do anything other than to cower at home. We got the word that we were shutting down on Thursday March 12th. That was the last time we were able to get together with friends over lunch. Everyone's summer plans are a mess with camps, pools and youth programs all shut down. Red, yellow, green . . . who cares? It's all crap until we just act like normal human beings and get on with life.
Much worse. Putin has handled COVID magnanimously. Russia ramped up way after we did, and the return to normal is already in progress. Not to mention that mortality rate (even if you believe the NYT claims of underreporting, which I do not) is among the lowest in the world. On the other hand, 70% of PA deaths were in nursing homes, thanks to Wolf and that individual that he has running the health department.
Wolf and Levine DID NOTHING to really protect the Nursing homes in PA.>>> quite the opposite they put COVID-sars2 infected people back in the nursing homes after being hospitalized. Close to 70% of the deaths are in nurseing homes due this policy.
and sorry for your loss
Poor choice of words - They did NOTHING TO HELP.
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