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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.

If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)

$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night

90 day contracts at a time

$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500

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Times five locations and DC is burning through almost $10,000,000 every 90 days on this program, which almost certainly will be renewed.  Meanwhile, the convention center, at no cost, sits empty.  And the mayor wonders why Congress didn’t send us more money?[/quote]

The money part does not bother me. Recovering from this pandemic is going to cost the city money. At the end of the day money will be located and eventually the Feds will cough up. They always do.

The issue here is still how they are run. Apparently the Mayor has opted for her favorite form of leadership which is contracting out with no follow up by the city. That is not the appropriate way to run a quarantine center.

At this point, as the Mayor is not talking, we almost need the original news breaker through NBC to go and interview all of the hotels to get to the bottom of this. What is the relationship with DC Department of Health and the Quarantine sites? What are the mechanics of quarantine? How does one get released from quarantine? For the 14 days that the person is at quarantine, what other social services are made available to them? For each of these locations what was the method of neighborhood notification?[/quote]

The mayor may not need to answer to Ward 3. But if she has to furlough or lay off city employees, she will have a lot of Wards 5, 6, 7, 8 residents to answers to. That $10,000,000 could have been better spent considering the convention center option. [/quote]

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