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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov. Hogan looks like he's done with concern over testing Marylanders, angling to open our state
Hogan saying he needs to see 'a few more days' of what he says are downward trends shows how eager he is to pull the rug out from under those Marylanders whose workplaces still carry un acceptable risk. I have to think it's more about paying workers unemployment benefits, than any sound policy focused on our safety.
What's become of testing Marylanders outside of these 'hot spots?' What we know about asymptomatic infections should give pause to any assertion that numbers of infected residents are going down. It's impossible to tell how many have contracted the virus with only 500k (and dropping) test kits that he's been bragging about - it's a farce.
Why isn't Md. testing grocery store workers, for instance? So much public traffic is focused on grocery stores. Neglecting to test workers provides a hidden threat, waiting, I suppose, for some tragic turn to draw the governor's attention. That's not proactive, it's folly.
Further, we've yet to see the impact of the outbreaks in nursing homes and meat plants in the state. The governor's myopic focus on the numbers he says are declining ignore the impact we should expect in these workers' communities, among families and friends.
You want to mingle with an infected poultry plant worker at the beach? A nursing or retirement home resident fresh out from one of the states' hundreds of outbreak sites?
What happened to determining whether reinfection can occur? What about the murky immunity question?
I'm a night grocery worker and tomorrow our store will test every worker's temp before their shift. That's fine, but wholly inadequate to anyone actually concerned with how many workers have been infected. Right now, Gov. Hogan is transitioning to a crap shoot. Russian roulette. His true republican self back in action, it seems.
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Initech
(99,915 posts)Stalin chose labor and aggressive industrialization over the health and well being of his citizens, and millions of Russians died in the process. Seems we're heading that way.
jimfields33
(15,473 posts)Its a handful from what news reports are saying. Its like in a week everything went perfect and most states are opening at least partially.
elleng
(130,156 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Those golf course lawns don't landscape themselves.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)People on greenskeeping staffs seldom get within 100 feet of anybody else.
A guy cutting a green, might be more like 100 yards of anybody else.
If these people can go back to work, because they need the money to live, they seem like they'd be among those we need to worry about least.
Stylists, wait staff, kitchen help, and the like are a much greater concern. You can't hand someone their plate of food from 6' away!
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)...to "in & out". No gathering. Besides, the question was about landscaping the course, not the clubhouse.
elleng
(130,156 posts)Hogan said people would continue to social distance and wear masks when it makes sense.
As long as Marylanders continue to take personal responsibility, continue to practice social distancing and continue to follow the guidance from public health officials, Hogan said the numbers will continue to decrease and the state will get closer to reopening.'
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/05/06/coronavirus-latest-some-outdoor-activities-restrictions-lifted-in-maryland-starting-thursday/
bigtree
(85,919 posts)...so I have to wonder how reliable the numbers of infected cited are.
He's angling to open without a true representation of our state's infection rate. It's not even close to adequate to make decisions about relaxing restrictions, but he's pressing forward anyway. It went from weeks of concerns expressed over testing, to satisfaction that the measly number of test kits he got are enough to make these broad assumptions of risk - 500k in a state of 6 million.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,777 posts)5,790 cases today.
5,541 cases yesterday.
5,384 cases Monday.
5,150 Sunday.
4,919 Saturday.
And so on... a week ago today there were 4,152.
Sound like a downward trend to you, Gov. Hogan?
elleng
(130,156 posts)I suppose you aren't.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... meant which it should be at county level and be 2% weekly random test on top of symptomatic and front line.
Hell, after that what else is there outside of testing ever person?
These people will cut their nose off to spite their faces
elleng
(130,156 posts)'Starting at 7 a.m. on Thursday, May 7 Marylanders can now golf, play tennis, go boating, fishing and camping and participate in other outdoor activities. The state will also reopen its state parks and beaches.'
This is not wild crazy or stalinist, it sounds rational to me, and depends on good sense of people. I hope it exists.
Sorry to those who disagree.
bigtree
(85,919 posts)...I made specific points, none of which you addressed.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)elleng
(130,156 posts)surely some will.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... old would continue to do his math work if I left the room with his sister in it.
They'll do good for 20 minutes after that the room would be a wreck and no math work would get done.
Cause that's what 9 yr olds do
elleng
(130,156 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... not act as a normal pattern is not sound thinking.
bigtree
(85,919 posts)JCMach1
(27,544 posts)What do you do as a Governor once you realize that?
bigtree
(85,919 posts)...like touting 500k tests in a state of 6 million as 'more than any other state,' and pretend it's adequate.
JCMach1
(27,544 posts)I guess it comes back to do as little harm and as much good as possible.
The national failure makes any good hard to come by...
bigtree
(85,919 posts)...'good always leaves, but bad comes to stay.'
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)theaocp
(4,223 posts)I'm leaning more and more toward mortality acceptance. I feel my normal shifting like a slow motion landslide under my feet. It's awful.