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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know the solution, but I know this:

1. The infection rate (cases per million) and positivity rate vary greatly across Maryland. It's a big state -- it would take you 5 hours to drive from Oakland to Salisbury. That's how long it takes to drive from Silver Spring to NYC. Hogan should guide, but the open/re-open should be a county-level decision at this stage. MD isn't in the middle of a state-wide outbreak nor a county-wide outbreak. We're pretty much holding steady or going down.

2. DL wasn't even offered in some parts of MD in the spring, because it's very difficult to do so. They just got packets and had to drop them off at school at the end of the semester. There are mountainous and rural parts of MD which just don't have easy or widespread internet access, and there's no easy solution (can't move mountains to make it happen.. pun intended), and then add poverty to that and it's even more difficult. It's drastically different -- there are towns where there is no home mail service -- everyone in the town has a PO box. There isn't a one-size solution for all of MD.

Here's today's data on positivity rates, and note how much they vary by county:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/MDHealthDept/status/1284857370154356738?s=20[/twitter]

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