Hogan press conference 11/17 2pm

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Anonymous wrote:This guy lost me.

What would you propose he do?

The two primary sources of COVID cases are:

1. In-home gatherings, which the government can’t stop.

2. High-capacity indoor dining and bars, which he’s taken measures to avoid.

Those measures are ineffective and have been for a while.

So then what would you do?

Why are you criticizing Hogan when you have no alternatives?

I would have closed all indoor dining, and I would've done it much earlier.

It’s not about all indoor dining — it’s about high-capacity indoor dining. He’s capping indoor dining at a low capacity.

You asked what I would do. That's what I'd do. Low capacity? Who tf needs to be eating in a restaurant right now?! We're spiking! Get takeout and go home!

You’re just asking for restaurants to all go out of business. They can’t sustain themselves on takeout alone.

[Anonymous]

Again.

Being out of a job is better than being dead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This guy lost me.

What would you propose he do?

The two primary sources of COVID cases are:

1. In-home gatherings, which the government can’t stop.

2. High-capacity indoor dining and bars, which he’s taken measures to avoid.

Those measures are ineffective and have been for a while.

So then what would you do?

Why are you criticizing Hogan when you have no alternatives?

I would have closed all indoor dining, and I would've done it much earlier.

It’s not about all indoor dining — it’s about high-capacity indoor dining. He’s capping indoor dining at a low capacity.

You asked what I would do. That's what I'd do. Low capacity? Who tf needs to be eating in a restaurant right now?! We're spiking! Get takeout and go home!

You’re just asking for restaurants to all go out of business. They can’t sustain themselves on takeout alone.

They managed in March. We should be providing financial aid to those restaurants so they can stay in business. And you can reopen a restaurant, but you can't bring people back to life, nor is there evidence that you can reverse long-term covid damage to peoples cardiovascular systems.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy lost me.

What would you propose he do?

The two primary sources of COVID cases are:

1. In-home gatherings, which the government can’t stop.

2. High-capacity indoor dining and bars, which he’s taken measures to avoid.

Those measures are ineffective and have been for a while.

So then what would you do?

Why are you criticizing Hogan when you have no alternatives?

I would have closed all indoor dining, and I would've done it much earlier.

It’s not about all indoor dining — it’s about high-capacity indoor dining. He’s capping indoor dining at a low capacity.

You asked what I would do. That's what I'd do. Low capacity? Who tf needs to be eating in a restaurant right now?! We're spiking! Get takeout and go home!

You’re just asking for restaurants to all go out of business. They can’t sustain themselves on takeout alone.

They managed in March. We should be providing financial aid to those restaurants so they can stay in business. And you can reopen a restaurant, but you can't bring people back to life, nor is there evidence that you can reverse long-term covid damage to peoples cardiovascular systems.

There was federal help in March. There is not now.

[Anonymous]

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UMD-piloted program is used to help triage and shuttle patients to the appropriate level of care across all MD hospitals. Apparently it worked well in the spring.

Was that a joke that he didn't have time to change? If not, what a stupid pig.

He’s a fking surgeon. He was telling the truth.

I'm sure that trail of hospital germs will just disappear like fairy dust behind him, too. Gross. Don't wear scrubs all over town, idiots. Poor Gov Hogan having to lean on that podium after that slob.

What are you talking about? Surgery is done in full PPE now, not just scrubs. Those were on under his PPE. You people....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy lost me.

What would you propose he do?

The two primary sources of COVID cases are:

1. In-home gatherings, which the government can’t stop.

2. High-capacity indoor dining and bars, which he’s taken measures to avoid.

Those measures are ineffective and have been for a while.

So then what would you do?

Why are you criticizing Hogan when you have no alternatives?

I would have closed all indoor dining, and I would've done it much earlier.

It’s not about all indoor dining — it’s about high-capacity indoor dining. He’s capping indoor dining at a low capacity.

You asked what I would do. That's what I'd do. Low capacity? Who tf needs to be eating in a restaurant right now?! We're spiking! Get takeout and go home!

You’re just asking for restaurants to all go out of business. They can’t sustain themselves on takeout alone.

They managed in March. We should be providing financial aid to those restaurants so they can stay in business. And you can reopen a restaurant, but you can't bring people back to life, nor is there evidence that you can reverse long-term covid damage to peoples cardiovascular systems.

There was federal help in March. There is not now.

Exactly.

The stupid GOP refused to approve a 2nd stimulus package. That’s why we can’t close restaurants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy lost me.

What would you propose he do?

The two primary sources of COVID cases are:

1. In-home gatherings, which the government can’t stop.

2. High-capacity indoor dining and bars, which he’s taken measures to avoid.

Those measures are ineffective and have been for a while.

So then what would you do?

Why are you criticizing Hogan when you have no alternatives?

I would have closed all indoor dining, and I would've done it much earlier.

It’s not about all indoor dining — it’s about high-capacity indoor dining. He’s capping indoor dining at a low capacity.

You asked what I would do. That's what I'd do. Low capacity? Who tf needs to be eating in a restaurant right now?! We're spiking! Get takeout and go home!

You’re just asking for restaurants to all go out of business. They can’t sustain themselves on takeout alone.

They managed in March. We should be providing financial aid to those restaurants so they can stay in business. And you can reopen a restaurant, but you can't bring people back to life, nor is there evidence that you can reverse long-term covid damage to peoples cardiovascular systems.

There was federal help in March. There is not now.

That sucks. There should be. Lives are still more important than jobs.

[Anonymous]

Exactly- governors cannot shut down without $$ for the workers who will go hungry. The federal government is forcing these decisions to be much harder b/c people like restaurant servers have no more pandemic money available for unemployment and will be desperate. Greedy senators. Greedy.

[Anonymous]

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Being out of a job is better than being dead.

Say the people who can telework and have a steady paycheck from home. Just this week there was a story about a restaurant in DC who had previously been profiled because he fed the hungry without charging them. Since Covid hit he was on the verge of losing his restaurant and couldn’t even feed himself. Only because they profiled him again and set up a go fund me was he able to get out of the hole. Multiply his story times all the other mom and pop shops that will be closing and cannot survive another shut down. I think what the governor is doing is trying to maintain the economy with tackling the highest And riskiest hours for transmission.

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Anonymous wrote:UGH, I support and like Gov. Hogan, but JUST DO IT. My goodness. If restaurants and bars are such proven hot spots, CLOSE INDOOR DINING. Not just after 10 p.m., CLOSE IT.

It's SO easy for us to sit back and demand this but it's so much more complicated than that. These are jobs and people's lively hood. Waiters, hostesses and mom and pop restaurants would have no income. We have the luxury, the blessing, the ease of teleworking and get paid and so it's easy to call for these places to shut down.

We know that. But the sooner we nut up and get this under control again, the better for everyone. This is why the federal government should have put more money into this, so that that more money could get into the hands of hardworking people and businesses. But everything done so far has been half-baked and CLEARLY has not been enough.

Or we just keep dragging this out!

[Anonymous]

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Being out of a job is better than being dead.

The death rate is extremely low and no one is forced to work in a restaurant.

The privilege on this site amazes me on a regular basis. People have bills to pay and families to feed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UGH, I support and like Gov. Hogan, but JUST DO IT. My goodness. If restaurants and bars are such proven hot spots, CLOSE INDOOR DINING. Not just after 10 p.m., CLOSE IT.

It's SO easy for us to sit back and demand this but it's so much more complicated than that. These are jobs and people's lively hood. Waiters, hostesses and mom and pop restaurants would have no income. We have the luxury, the blessing, the ease of teleworking and get paid and so it's easy to call for these places to shut down.

We know that. But the sooner we nut up and get this under control again, the better for everyone. This is why the federal government should have put more money into this, so that that more money could get into the hands of hardworking people and businesses. But everything done so far has been half-baked and CLEARLY has not been enough.

Or we just keep dragging this out!

As soon as we open up the number spikes again. We have seen it in Europe. I don’t know why you think we will somehow we will have a different outcome. This isn’t going to go away until there is a vaccine. Until then its about managing hospital capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy lost me.

What would you propose he do?

The two primary sources of COVID cases are:

1. In-home gatherings, which the government can’t stop.

2. High-capacity indoor dining and bars, which he’s taken measures to avoid.

Those measures are ineffective and have been for a while.

So then what would you do?

Why are you criticizing Hogan when you have no alternatives?

I would have closed all indoor dining, and I would've done it much earlier.

It’s not about all indoor dining — it’s about high-capacity indoor dining. He’s capping indoor dining at a low capacity.

You asked what I would do. That's what I'd do. Low capacity? Who tf needs to be eating in a restaurant right now?! We're spiking! Get takeout and go home!

You’re just asking for restaurants to all go out of business. They can’t sustain themselves on takeout alone.

They can if people would stop acting like dirtbags. Support your local restaurants with takeout. We're getting takeout much more frequently. I used to meet with my aunt and cousin once a month at our favorite Mexican place. Guess what we still do? Get takeout from that place, even more frequently, and send each other texts and pics to say "can't wait to do this in person."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again.

Being out of a job is better than being dead.

Say the people who can telework and have a steady paycheck from home. Just this week there was a story about a restaurant in DC who had previously been profiled because he fed the hungry without charging them. Since Covid hit he was on the verge of losing his restaurant and couldn’t even feed himself. Only because they profiled him again and set up a go fund me was he able to get out of the hole. Multiply his story times all the other mom and pop shops that will be closing and cannot survive another shut down. I think what the governor is doing is trying to maintain the economy with tackling the highest And riskiest hours for transmission.

Except DC has indoor dining and that's still happening. The thing killing Kazi Mannan's business is that he's located in a downtown spot where no one is because they're all working from home. Virtually no other small restaurants around there are even open. These arguments always act like the difference between survival and not for these restaurants is government rules about the pandemic and not the fact that pandemic means people aren't eating out at these places to begin with. There needs to be a solution that doesn't depend on these restaurants getting normal business because that's just not happening. That's reality, not people being privileged because they can work from home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Again.

Being out of a job is better than being dead.

The death rate is extremely low and no one is forced to work in a restaurant.

The privilege on this site amazes me on a regular basis. People have bills to pay and families to feed.

You are talking out of your ass. 26 people died in Maryland yesterday of COVID: more than one an HOUR. Gov. Hogan reiterated that more people have died of COVID in Maryland this year than the last year's death rates for traffic accidents, gun violence and the flu COMBINED.