Looks like we are having a near revolt in PA after the most recent changes by the governor
As of this morning, Lebanon & York county sheriffs & DA's have announced they will not arrest or prosecute any business owners for opening.... claiming the most recent list of allowed businesses is too hap hazard to enforce. Also the county commissioners in Dauphin county, where the State Capital actually resides have also gone against not reopening... .Open defiance running rampant now... locals flipping the bird far and wide.
I think extending the Stay at home until 2 days AFTER the state primary... was the last straw.
As they should. There have been no issues in most of the state that haven't been caused by the complete clown show in Harrisburg. Wolf is an a$$ of the highest degree. "Don't blame me, blame the virus". No, you idiot. We blame the Chinese and you for taking advantage of the situation.
He also took the Cuomo approach of forcing COVID patients into nursing homes, a death sentence for many seniors. That news is trying to be kept quiet but is trickling out. The AVERAGE age of all who have died from COVID in PA is 79. Which just happens to be the average life expectancy in Pennsylvania before anyone ever heard of COVID.
Local business people and elected officials are apoplectic at the lack of response from this administration. I think the business community is going to organize and open very soon, regardless what Wolf says.
His latest brain storm is a Commonwealth Civilian Coronavirus Corps, "a public service initiative that will support efforts this fall to increase testing and contact tracing and provide critical new job opportunities in the public health sector." This guy is channeling FDR. Just stop with the big production and open up the state.
Watching the daily 12pm NY briefing... today the Gov is acting as if the requirement to accept Covid patients into Nursing homes, released on March 25th never happened.... Laying new requirements on Nursing homes to test all employees twice a week and notify the DOH for every positive case in the NH(basically the stuff that should have been done on Day 1)... and that if they don't they will lose their license. Going on to say, the level of deaths in Nursing Homes is unacceptable(no kidding, and who's fault is that)... and that covid positive patients should now be moved elsewhere. Well he is the one that required that they stay there in the 1st place... and then NJ, PA & Connecticut followed suit causing excessively high elderly mortality all over the East Coast. Now he wants to act like "it's the Nursing Homes fault" for following his original order.
Then he moved on to how the Feds need to send NY more money($40B+)... or he will start cutting services.
This is why people are so frustrated... no one in charge takes responsibility for anything... ever.
I'll avoid calling out any of the governors who are of a particular persuasion, but this is why I don't trust a single thing they say. They lie, they exaggerate or downplay facts to suit their agenda, they blame the feds and the president for failiures that were obviously their own. They pick and chose which "expert" they take direction from, depending on their own agenda. They are anything but transparent and are all about setting the precedent of how far they have pushed the envelope of their authority.
I knew there would be new programs, agencies and departments as a result of this. They just can't help themselves. This dog and pony show in Harrisburg with the Civilian Coronavirus Corp, which I assume will be a bunch of public service employees going around taking everyone's temperature and making sure they are following orders, is just one example.
At this point, I'd rather get the virus and take my chances, than deal with this crap for the next couple of years. 12 to 18 months before people can go to an event - church, sports, concerts, etc. - in Illinois? Not going to happen. People will riot first.
I have no faith in any guidelines coming out of Harrisburg, The Governor is a clown and the health secretary specializes in childhood eating disorders & transgender issues and is a PC appointment. Now there's a combination of qualifications to run the response to a Chinese pandemic. I wouldn't ask a dude who installs mudflaps, running boards and window tint for guidelines on degreeing cams on a mod motor Ford. Neither would I care what these entitled clowns have to say about this virus situation.
If the results don't match the theory, change the theory.
