Posted on 04/09/2020 6:48:49 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Over a dozen House Democrats led by California Reps. Norma Torres and TJ Cox are calling on the Trump administration to halt its efforts to produce county-specific social distancing guidelines, citing concerns over the potential misclassification of low-income and rural communities that lack access to coronavirus tests.
Nearly two weeks ago, Trump sent a letter to U.S. governors outlining a plan to classify counties in the U.S. based on their risk factors and rescind social distancing guidelines accordingly. The president has showed a priority on re-opening the economy, which has been halted as a result of social distancing measures and has left millions unemployed.
“Our country does not presently have the testing infrastructure to accurately gauge the prevalence of COVID-19. Determining a risk classification based on insufficient testing could have a devastating impact on our national efforts to combat this disease, and in particular, on low-income and rural communities,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter addressed to the president and the public health officials in his cabinet.
In Trump's letter sent March 27, the president said counties will be ranked based on “robust surveillance testing.” Such a plan could scale back social distancing measures in communities that unknowingly have an outbreak because of lack of testing, posing the risk of the virus further spreading.
Cox said the administration cannot use “incomplete and inaccurate data in matters of life or death” and challenged the administration to “commit to, at the very least, widespread testing access, before implementing a system.”
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That’s because all Dem rat-hole cities will stay closed and all the sensibly run Rep areas will be open. They (Dems) are sooo predictable.
When the pub areas with less cases open up first, there will be riots and civil disturbances in the rat areas.
Yep. Anything to stall recovery.
I think the global shutdown and widespread isolation is overdone, county by county rules, based on #cases/100,000 would be better low incidence (low mobility/rural) should be handled very differently than high incidence (high mobility/city) just as WVa has low case load burden, and New York has high case load burden. The one size fits all approach unnecessarily impacts low risk populations, and are insufficient for severely effected areas
Nails it....good job.
https://torres.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-torres-we-need-uniter-trump-isn-t-one
“Rep. TJ Cox owes about $30,000 in back taxes to the state of California, according to a lien filed against him this month. It’s the second tax lien filed this year against the freshman Democratic congressman who is a top Republican target in the 2020 race,”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2020/03/19/coronavirus-strikes-congress-488629
Couple of winners, there.
A recovering economy is a much bigger crises then the virus to these traitors.
You got that right.....b/c it elevates Trump into the stratosphere.
OK, all open. Self isolation over for all.
Social distancing and shutdowns have all been done by state, county and city. There is no Federal ordinance imposed.
Over a dozen jackasses and counting.
Yet it is fine to use that same "incomplete and innaccurate data" to continue to destroy our economy.
*facepalm*
Love,
O2
Most of combating the disease can be carried out by individual responsibility, without isolating everyone from everyone.
Context is everything when it comes to health-safety precautions. No health-safety rule is universal and divorced from any context, unless no one should dare think and what you want is a herd mentality.
All rules can be put in context, applied as needed for each particular situation, by individuals, organizations and businesses, and again without total shutdowns and hibernating everyone from everyone.
No child advances unless they all advance oooops...
No state unlocks unless they all unlock.
Cant have red states stealing a march on the blue
Cox said the administration cannot use “incomplete and inaccurate data in matters of life or death”
All data on something of this nature is always going to be incomplete. So this moron’s advise would paralyze us so we could never do anything “in matters of life and death”.
It’s a state matter so Trump can’t order individual states, counties, or cities to open up anyway.
“There is no Federal ordinance imposed.”
That’s why the story talks about “guidelines” not “ordinances”.
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