Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Pa lawmakers worked into the night. @3:am they sent a letter to governor wolf stating house resolution 836 was voted on and won. Your emergency shutdown is over. Open up your businesses pa. Not a whisper our hint of this on local news.

You might want to read exactly what that resolution does. It's a concurrent resolution to terminate the COVID-19 Disaster Emergency, if the need arises.

[robert.]

Yes that is what ended. It was put in place to extend is first emergency declaration. As of now wolf claims “nothing will change here won’t sign this reversal of his declaration. Next step is a call to impeach. So say the republicans. We now have a political pie eating contest.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes that is what ended. It was put in place to extend is first emergency declaration. As of now wolf claims “nothing will change here won’t sign this reversal of his declaration. Next step is a call to impeach. So say the republicans. We now have a political pie eating contest.

The way it's worded is not confrontational which is interesting. And, since 21 states are already spiking after opening, this might be something that the pubes might reconsider and start backing away from as they will end up taking the blame in an election year.

[robert.]

There is one question i have tried to get an answer to. When i ask on local Facebook pages i get dumped on. Question is. If an emergency declaration is removed, will federal relief go with it?

[up148]

Has anyone found a website that gives covid statistics by city (smaller) rather than county only? Went to Harbor freight and Lowes this morning and I was one of the few wearing a mask. The area isn't spiking yet (if stated facts are true) but I still think a truck is coming.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There is one question i have tried to get an answer to. When i ask on local Facebook pages i get dumped on. Question is. If an emergency declaration is removed, will federal relief go with it?

Possible, but the Fed emergency declaration has not been rescinded so unlikely.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Has anyone found a website that gives covid statistics by city (smaller) rather than county only?

County and zip code seem the be the only or lowest breakdowns that I am aware of.

Went to Harbor freight and Lowes this morning and I was one of the few wearing a mask. The area isn't spiking yet (if stated facts are true) but I still think a truck is coming.

Daring....... I did my weekly PO stop - everyone in masks.

[robert.]

Yes the truck is coming. It will be in the shape of a school bus. 70 kids at a time. So many parents are pushing for full day schools five days a week. With no masks.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes the truck is coming. It will be in the shape of a school bus. 70 kids at a time. So many parents are pushing for full day schools five days a week. With no masks.

Hard to believe - schools are the closest thing to disease incubators. Every parent with more than 3 brain cells functioning knows that......

Tells you something really bad about those parents.

[HONDO74]

Dr. Birx Says George Floyd Protests Have Resulted in the Destruction of 70 Covid-19 Testing Sites
https://news.yahoo.com/dr-birx-says-geo ... 49109.html

Dr. Deborah Birx, President Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, warned the nation’s governors on a conference call that 70 coronavirus testing sites had been destroyed amid widespread protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

During the Monday call, a recording of which was obtained by the Daily Beast, Birx said governors should “scramble now to make sure there is testing available in urban areas.” Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the White House coronavirus task force, said that spikes in cases stemming from the unrest are “an issue our team is following and there is a concern.”

Birx’s comments mirror those of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has raised concerns that the protests could lead to a spike in cases. “It’s a perfect set up for further spread of the virus in the sense of creating these blips which might turn into some surges,” Fauci admitted on local D.C. radio station WTOP last week.

Actually that headline should read....Rioting. Looting and Vandalism Resulted in the Destruction of 70 Covid-19 Testing Sites

Protesting does not destroy.

[robert.]

Wolf’s Emergency Declaration

(HARRISBURG) – Noting that the Governor Wolf has refused to carry out his mandatory duty to act upon a resolution passed by the General Assembly that ends his emergency declaration, Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R-25) and Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman (R-34) today urged the state’s Commonwealth Court to “command” the Governor to terminate the declaration in accordance with the law.

“Governor Wolf’s failure to issue an executive order or proclamation ending the COVID-19 state of disaster emergency is unlawful, unreasonable, and without just cause,” the lawmakers said in the lawsuit filed today. “Governor Wolf has no discretion to refuse to issue an executive order or proclamation ending the COVID-19 state of disaster emergency.”

House Resolution 836, which was passed by the General Assembly with bi-partisan support, ends the executive order Wolf used to shut down employers, which was issued on March 6 and renewed on June 3. Scarnati and Corman said the governor has used the emergency declaration to change and suspend state laws, spend state and federal taxpayer dollars without the approval of the General Assembly and prevent shuttered businesses from reopening with new safety measures in place.

Governor Wolf said today in a news conference that he will not meet his obligation to issue an executive order or proclamation ending the COVID-19 state of disaster emergency.

According to the filing, “Section 7301(c) of the Emergency Management Services Code provides that if the General Assembly terminates a state of disaster emergency by concurrent resolution, then the Governor must immediately act, without discretion, to formally end his prior proclamation, stating as follows: ‘Thereupon, the Governor shall issue an executive order or proclamation ending the state of disaster emergency.’

“State law allows for the temporary suspension of civil liberties under dire circumstances,” Scarnati said. “We allowed the governor that time initially to flatten the curve. The need to suspend civil liberties in the interest of public health and safety has clearly passed.”

“By his own statement, the Governor has indicated that we are returning to a ‘new normal.’ Our laws do not provide for a Governor to create a ‘new normal,’ rather they provide for three separate but equal branches of government who have sworn to uphold the law,” Corman said. “To proceed to his ‘new normal’ without the legislative process and judicial review is wrong"

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yes the truck is coming. It will be in the shape of a school bus. 70 kids at a time. So many parents are pushing for full day schools five days a week. With no masks.

Hard to believe - schools are the closest thing to disease incubators. Every parent with more than 3 brain cells functioning knows that......

Tells you something really bad about those parents.

Having spent more than five decades in classrooms, on one side of the teacher 's desk or the other, I can guarantee a classroom is a giant petri dish . I can't think of, especially in elementary schools, a single surface that does not have some, and possibly all , blood, sweat, tears, saliva, or a prodigious wiping of snot on it. Can anybody? And then there are those common, stainless steel, bend-over-to-slurp-a-mouthful hallway fountains, into which just about everybody return-spits fluid back .........yikes!!!!!!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And then there are those common, stainless steel, bend-over-to-slurp-a-mouthful hallway fountains, into which just about everybody return-spits fluid back .........yikes!!!!!!!

They closed off all those in the building where I used to work years ago but not for that reason - lead and other wonderful substances in the plumbing...

[robert.]

Kids here are required to supply their own drinking water. Fountains were safety hazards. Lead and asbestos (asbestos not found in water).

[HONDO74]

Hawaii Gov. David Ige extended the state's mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arriving travelers on Wednesday in a bid to keep coronavirus cases in the islands low.

Ige said the rule is being extended to the end of July as the state works to solidify a screening process that could soon allow travelers to return in some capacity.

Officials said they are planning to install thermal screening stations and facial recognition technology at the airports by the end of the year. Ige said the technology would be used only to track people within the airport during the screening process.

Hawaii has among the lowest COVID-19 infection and mortality rates in the nation. Ige enacted a mandatory self-quarantine for all arriving tourists and residents in March.

Some violators of the quarantine rules have been charged including a resident who was arrested this week after she was found to have left her home in Waikiki.

Good thing they don't have protestors, rioters and looters.