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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the hell? So Northam basically has still done nothing but recommend that restaurants and bars only offer takeout/delivery? He hasn't closed anything else or instituted bans on gatherings? His state has the most cases in the DMV right now and this idiot isn't doing anything about it, but issuing a soft warning. WOW. I would be pissed if I lived in VA still.[/quote]

Clearly you don’t live in Virginia, because that was far from all he’d done at the time of your post.  But do go on showing your ass.[/quote]

DP.  Please list what he has done, other than finally closing schools.  TIA[/quote]

To start with, he banned state employee travel and large meetings, implemented increased telework, expanded testing criteria for nursing homes (which is part of what caused the spike in Virginia cases, finding sick people who otherwise would have been overlooked), put price gouging measures into effect, and petitioned for (and then got) orders blocking evictions and utility disconnects during the pandemic.[/quote]

Hm so aside from banning state employee travel and large meetings (which clearly is a tiny subset of the entire STATE) he hasn't done anything to contain or curb the spreading of the virus. He's only put measures in place to manage it once it's arrived and disrupted the daily lives of his constituents. Sounds like he's inviting virus cases to VA. And his plan is effective. VA still has the largest number of cases in the DMV. Congratulations![/quote]

You don’t think increased homelessness would contribute to the spread?  You don’t think testing nursing home residents is important for containing it?[/quote]

I don't say this lightly, but...you cannot be this dense. Perhaps if he made efforts to curb or contain the virus now then increased homelessness wouldn't be an issue. It makes no sense to try and start managing a problem before it even exists! Increased homelessness isn't here yet, but the virus is. And no, I don't think testing nursing home residents is more important than keeping the rest of the active population from spreading it to each other. I'm not worried that there are that many active nursing home residents out and about on a daily basis infecting others to the extent that everyone else would be.[/quote]

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