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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do a lot of lobbying work and have heard from a number of people that the region's leaders will soon agree on June 10 as target for reopening[/quote]

Ohio already announced reopening starting on May 1st. Texas and Florida and most of the south and parts of the midwest will likely follow suit. They have low levels of cases. Michigan is the anomaly in the midwest.

If large parts of the country starts reopening it'll be hard for the mid Atlantic states to hold off reopening for another whole month past the 15th. The political and economic pressures will be too great. My money is still on the 15th as the beginning of the formal reopening. We can't let NYC dictate to Maryland or Virginia when to reopen. [/quote]

Your choice of words is odd. NY isn't "dictating" -- we are seeing from their situation what to avoid. Also, a very large part of "business as usual" on the East coast is travel to and from NY to all the cities up and down the coast.[/quote]

In other words, NY is dictating what the surrounding states will do despite that MD or VA or PA never saw anywhere near the infection levels or hospitalization numbers or rates, even when adjusting for per population basis, as NYC. Put it this way, Roanoke and Pittsburgh have to remain shut down because of NYC.

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Wha?  NY is "dictating" because it has a massive COVID outbreak and is a massively dense and globally/regionally important metro area.  Literally nobody said that Roanoke and Pittsburgh have to remain shut down; but yes, we do need coordination in the Northeast Corridor to deal with the obvious ramifications of travel to and from NYC.  [/quote]

The orders are being issued statewide by the governors. Tom Wolfe, for example, is refusing to allow PA to reopen because he is in a pact with the governors of New York and New Jersey. Put it this way, a lot of PA is closer to Ohio than New York and get minimal direct travel from NY, but still need to shut down, even if it's rural towns deep in the hinterlands.

In other words, New York is dictating what the surrounding states will do in terms of reopening. It's quite simple and why you want to avoid accepting it is weird.

If travel from NYC was that problematic we'd have seen a lot more spikes in Philadelphia and Baltimore and DC but we didn't.... so.... [/quote]

where are you getting the news that PA is being “dictated” by NY?

and NYC and NJ locked down travel - what do you think will happen in DC if we go back to business travel as usual in 2 weeks?[/quote]

Even with gradual opening up, we’re not going back to business travel as usual in 2 weeks. [/quote]

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