is NorthernVA doing a different thing for reopening?

[Anonymous]

I'm hearing that they might, but nothing is clear

[Anonymous]

Can’t imagine it’ll happen soon. Arlington is still awful.

[Anonymous]

Channel 4 news this morning said that Northern Virginia officials sent a letter to Northam saying we''re not ready to enter Phase 1 on Friday.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/leaders-in-northern-virginia-urge-governor-to-reconsider-reopening-plan/2298496/

[Anonymous]

Arlington not ready to open yet either:

https://wtop.com/arlington/2020/05/arlington-co-says-its-not-ready-to-reopen-yet/?fbclid=IwAR3Qz1ny6ge8I5Z0q66YwfuIurLYRsKrVivHzcdE2wFvRclyEdNhm5t3vxQ

[Anonymous]

I hope they start enacting more strict restrictions. We are failing. We need to have restrictions on who is outside when. More enforcement of staying in and possibly even shutting down takeout. I would be for fining parents who let their kids plays with neighbors. And I say this as someone with kids.

[Anonymous]

They are starting to test all the long-term care facilities and those numbers will probably be reported next week or two. That will give a much more accurate picture of where we are versus where we think we are in NoVa.

[Anonymous]

This whole thing is a freaking joke. Been home for two months now, we should be able to start opening up now. Why is that not happening, and why are you people so content to sit inside your four walls with kids crying from boredom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is a freaking joke. Been home for two months now, we should be able to start opening up now. Why is that not happening, and why are you people so content to sit inside your four walls with kids crying from boredom?

The link above explains fairly clearly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope they start enacting more strict restrictions. We are failing. We need to have restrictions on who is outside when. More enforcement of staying in and possibly even shutting down takeout. I would be for fining parents who let their kids plays with neighbors. And I say this as someone with kids.

+100 the warm weather will draw people out so we need more restrictions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope they start enacting more strict restrictions. We are failing. We need to have restrictions on who is outside when. More enforcement of staying in and possibly even shutting down takeout. I would be for fining parents who let their kids plays with neighbors. And I say this as someone with kids.

+100 the warm weather will draw people out so we need more restrictions

Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope they start enacting more strict restrictions. We are failing. We need to have restrictions on who is outside when. More enforcement of staying in and possibly even shutting down takeout. I would be for fining parents who let their kids plays with neighbors. And I say this as someone with kids.

I completely disagree. Our percentage of new cases compared to the total number have been trending downward. The percentage of positives to number of test has also been trending downward.

I’m disappointed that the governor just last Monday sent a message of moving forward as one commonwealth. See the transcript below. If the entire state isn’t ready for Phase 1, then we shouldn’t.
Ralph Northam: (20:54)
The question I believe from Alan Suderman was regarding the regional approach and whether some areas of Virginia could be open prior to others. A couple of comments I would make Alan. We have had a great group of business leaders across Virginia, some of whom are from rural areas and the overwhelming advice coming from them is to do this as a Commonwealth rather than by region. Well, I’ll give you one example and I’ve told you this before. If we open certain areas of the Commonwealth and close others, people from the closed areas may travel, probably will travel to the open areas and not only bring new cases from hotspots if you will in Virginia, but also potentially bring in cases from other states. And so we don’t want that to happen. The other thing that we would be doing, we would be picking winners and losers in Virginia and something that has been very important to me as the governor is to see Virginia as a Commonwealth.
Ralph Northam: (22:12)
Perhaps some people have made more sacrifices than others, but we have all sacrificed and when we made the decision to close down, to have the stay at home order, I did this as a Commonwealth. And when we reopen, when we go into phase one, I want to do that as a Commonwealth as well. Because one of the things that I have seen which I commend Virginia, this has brought Virginians together. What I worry about if we do one region open rather than another, it just is a tremendous potential for more division. And the last thing that we need in this state, the last thing we need in this country right now is division.

[Anonymous]

I agree 100% with 13:28. I’m so disappointed that the governor backtracked on having uniform state restrictions and on what would be reopened (in his earlier press
conference, for example, he said that gyms can open with capacity restrictions, now they can only open outdoor facilities). No one is calling him on these inconsistencies. We have been locked down for two months, hospitalizations and ventilator use are falling, the economy is in shambles, small businesses are failing, and I for one am sick of being stuck in the house.

[Anonymous]

Lol. You’re upset because you don’t think it’s fair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington not ready to open yet either:

https://wtop.com/arlington/2020/05/arlington-co-says-its-not-ready-to-reopen-yet/?fbclid=IwAR3Qz1ny6ge8I5Z0q66YwfuIurLYRsKrVivHzcdE2wFvRclyEdNhm5t3vxQ

Maybe July at the earliest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington not ready to open yet either:

https://wtop.com/arlington/2020/05/arlington-co-says-its-not-ready-to-reopen-yet/?fbclid=IwAR3Qz1ny6ge8I5Z0q66YwfuIurLYRsKrVivHzcdE2wFvRclyEdNhm5t3vxQ

Maybe July at the earliest.

You think for Phase 1? I doubt it will take that long.