So is MOCO just never opening?

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Anonymous wrote:When will Montgomery County enter phase 1? This week? August? Any idea?

I feel like we have been kept in the dark, guessing as to what is really happening. No press conferences?

I saw a Washington Post article where county leaders imply Hogan abandoned them. They're all pointing fingers and none of them has an intelligent plan to move to phase 1.

Probably because Hogan disagreed about the delay to begin with.

As Governor, he has the power to open across the board. I understand treating PG and MC differently than Garrett County, but I'd sure feel a lot better with Hogan in charge of my county than Elrich.

Agreed... and I think he may overrule them. Especially WRT to schools if the numbers continue down like they have been.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When will Montgomery County enter phase 1? This week? August? Any idea?

I feel like we have been kept in the dark, guessing as to what is really happening. No press conferences?

I saw a Washington Post article where county leaders imply Hogan abandoned them. They're all pointing fingers and none of them has an intelligent plan to move to phase 1.

Probably because Hogan disagreed about the delay to begin with.

As Governor, he has the power to open across the board. I understand treating PG and MC differently than Garrett County, but I'd sure feel a lot better with Hogan in charge of my county than Elrich.

It is strange that Hogan seems to have just given up, or decided that these are the hard decisions and doesn’t want to be responsible for making them. My respect for him has taken a huge dive in the last few weeks. He acquired all those tests, and now is hoarding them— he seems to have adopted the Jared Kushner attitude to his stockpile. Now he is going to give 1000 tests a week to MoCo and PG counties? That’s a microscopic share of what’s needed. His 500,000 tests now seems a cruel joke on the residents of MD.

I am not pleased with Elrich, but he’s making the decisions that Hogan has hidden from.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When will Montgomery County enter phase 1? This week? August? Any idea?

I feel like we have been kept in the dark, guessing as to what is really happening. No press conferences?

I saw a Washington Post article where county leaders imply Hogan abandoned them. They're all pointing fingers and none of them has an intelligent plan to move to phase 1.

Probably because Hogan disagreed about the delay to begin with.

As Governor, he has the power to open across the board. I understand treating PG and MC differently than Garrett County, but I'd sure feel a lot better with Hogan in charge of my county than Elrich.

Agreed... and I think he may overrule them. Especially WRT to schools if the numbers continue down like they have been.

Agreed. Every day Hogan's spokesman Mike Ricci has been touting the low hospitalization numbers. We haven't seen levels this low in MD since mid-April. MoCo is part of that decline. So it makes it ever more ridiculous that MoCo isn't opening up. I mean, PG County is opening up, for Pete's sake, and their situation is much worse than ours.

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What I don’t get is Erlich demanding the right to keep MOCo closed and two weeks later, complaining Hogan allowed him to do that.

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Here is one metric example

On May 6, Moco had 487 covid hospitalizations. State had 1693

On May 20, Moco had 379, State had 1410

Moco is a big percent of the numbers and driving some of the change for the state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is one metric example

On May 6, Moco had 487 covid hospitalizations. State had 1693

On May 20, Moco had 379, State had 1410

Moco is a big percent of the numbers and driving some of the change for the state

Of course it is. We have 1/3 of the state's population. The notion that the state could be going in a totally opposite direction from MoCo is asininely stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When will Montgomery County enter phase 1? This week? August? Any idea?

I feel like we have been kept in the dark, guessing as to what is really happening. No press conferences?

I saw a Washington Post article where county leaders imply Hogan abandoned them. They're all pointing fingers and none of them has an intelligent plan to move to phase 1.

Yes, it was crazy town. They all were fighting for the right to stay shut down and are now complaining about having that authority. They all come off as toddlers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is one metric example

On May 6, Moco had 487 covid hospitalizations. State had 1693

On May 20, Moco had 379, State had 1410

Moco is a big percent of the numbers and driving some of the change for the state

Of course it is. We have 1/3 of the state's population. The notion that the state could be going in a totally opposite direction from MoCo is asininely stupid.

Sorry, should've said 1/6. Point stands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When will Montgomery County enter phase 1? This week? August? Any idea?

I feel like we have been kept in the dark, guessing as to what is really happening. No press conferences?

I saw a Washington Post article where county leaders imply Hogan abandoned them. They're all pointing fingers and none of them has an intelligent plan to move to phase 1.

Yes, it was crazy town. They all were fighting for the right to stay shut down and are now complaining about having that authority. They all come off as toddlers.

They're left holding the bag and now don't want to deal with the responsibility. This is what happens when you put local government in charge of big decisions like this. None of these people are qualified for this level of authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don’t get is Erlich demanding the right to keep MOCo closed and two weeks later, complaining Hogan allowed him to do that.

I know. It makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don’t get is Erlich demanding the right to keep MOCo closed and two weeks later, complaining Hogan allowed him to do that.

Wait, what? He did?

And if no one wants MoCO separate, then why not just put it on the state plan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don’t get is Erlich demanding the right to keep MOCo closed and two weeks later, complaining Hogan allowed him to do that.

Can someone share a link? Did quick google search and didn’t appear. Much appreciated!

[Anonymous]

MoCo added 180 cases and 6 deaths today, both well below our 7-day rolling averages for those figures.

That brings our 7-day rolling average for cases to 191 (it had been as high as 225, though we had an anomalous day last week when we added 500+ cases due to labs clearing out a backlog of test).

For deaths we are down to a 7-day rolling average of 9.4. That's down from about 14 when we started this county-level reopening plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When will Montgomery County enter phase 1? This week? August? Any idea?

I feel like we have been kept in the dark, guessing as to what is really happening. No press conferences?

I saw a Washington Post article where county leaders imply Hogan abandoned them. They're all pointing fingers and none of them has an intelligent plan to move to phase 1.

Probably because Hogan disagreed about the delay to begin with.

As Governor, he has the power to open across the board. I understand treating PG and MC differently than Garrett County, but I'd sure feel a lot better with Hogan in charge of my county than Elrich.

It is strange that Hogan seems to have just given up, or decided that these are the hard decisions and doesn’t want to be responsible for making them. My respect for him has taken a huge dive in the last few weeks. He acquired all those tests, and now is hoarding them— he seems to have adopted the Jared Kushner attitude to his stockpile. Now he is going to give 1000 tests a week to MoCo and PG counties? That’s a microscopic share of what’s needed. His 500,000 tests now seems a cruel joke on the residents of MD.

I am not pleased with Elrich, but he’s making the decisions that Hogan has hidden from.

+1. I was pleased with how Hogan handled the crisis early on but not so much anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don’t get is Erlich demanding the right to keep MOCo closed and two weeks later, complaining Hogan allowed him to do that.

E-L-R-I-C-H.

And the point is that restrictions in Montgomery County are ineffective if Hogan allows everyone to go cavort in Ocean City.