[Vision2020] Idaho's House of Representatives votes to end Coronavirus Emergency effective immediately

[Tom Hansen]

Point well made and taken, Ken.

At a bare minimum we should stay with face masks and distance.

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.TomandRodna.com/MoscowCares
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> On Aug 25, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
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>> On 8/25/20 2:17 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
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>> https://www.khq.com/news/idahos-house-of-representatives-votes-to-end-coronavirus-emergency-effective-immediately/article_a530255a-e713-11ea-8410-6f4b42473352.html
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>> Idaho's House of Representatives votes to end Coronavirus Emergency effective immediately
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>> BOISE, Idaho - Today lawmakers in Idaho's House voted to advance a resolution that ends Idaho Governor Brad Little's Coronavirus Emergency Declaration.
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>> The resolution effectively lifts all restrictions across the state. Lawmakers voted and passed the resolution 48-20 amid a special session that the Governor called to deal with liability laws and mail-in voting concerns.
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>> The resolution now heads to the Senate and if it passes the Governor's Emergency declaration, that he put in place back in March, is over.
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> This appears to be news of a dangerous possibility.  If the resolution passes in the Senate, thus ending the emergency declaration, and if local University students start behaving as if coronavirus does not exist, e.g., going maskless, meeting in many and various groups with no attendance recording, and therefore with no possibility for contact tracing, there appears to be a strong possibility that COVID-19 cases will increase chaotically, exponentially, and, of course, deadly.
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> One is reminded of the Hermione Granger quote in the first Harry Potter book, Sorcerer's Stone, where she comments to Harry and Ron after one of their early adventures: "Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled."
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> The idea of mass expulsions, or chaos forfend, of the closure of the entire University for some period of time, is not beyond horrific imagination.  (Well, maybe not the imagination of an economist or a horror novelist.  Take your pick.)
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