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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realize that Hogan is in an impossible situation now without help from Washington. I do, however, fault him for not being more proactive during October when it was clear to anyone watching that we were headed in the wrong direction. Not only did he not take not action, his social media posts were deceptively positive, rather than informative or cautionary. Big mistake.

The thing with the restaurants is that I know he doesn't want them to go out of business and for staff to lose jobs. But guess what? Now that COVID is out of control, my family and many others are completely scaling back all of our activities. No more in person shopping and purchases, less takeout because it looks like a shutdown could be looming which will destroy my family's already faltering business, no more winter indoor soccer or other indoor activities, etc. So the restaurants stay open with only the bravest customers, but the economy contracts in other areas[/quote]

What was he supposed to do in October? [/quote]

Issue warnings instead of talking about how much better we were doing than other states, scale back indoor dining, limit social gatherings. Look at the trajectory.[/quote]

I know the trajectory. The warnings wouldn’t have helped. People have given up.[/quote]

Maybe, but at least if he had limited dining, the level of community spread might not be so great.  Frankly, it was huge mistake to reopen them to 75% capacity in September. The numbers started climbing after that. The 25 person limit for gathering is still too high. I know it is impossible to enforce, but if even a few people would take these limitations to heart it would help. Halloween was ridiculous.

In addition, if keeping the economy afloat is paramount, he should be regularly encouraging young healthy people who are out and about to be tested regularly.  That would go a long way toward identifying super spreaders. I think that today was the first time I have heard him mention testing for younger people. That message needs to be repeated again and again.

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COVID cases are primarily coming from bars and in-home gatherings. With bars closing at 10pm, people will just switch to houses.[/quote]

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