[Vision2020] Stay at home order

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 4/30/20 7:47 AM, rhayes at frontier.com wrote:
> I would like to encourage Governor Little to stand firm on the stay at 
> home order until science shows that it is safe to open our state 
> again. As of Tuesday, the 28, there have been almost 2,000 cases in 
> Idaho with 58 deaths. I believe that it took courage on the part of 
> the governor, and fortitude on the part of Idahoans to self-isolate 
> thereby preventing a much, much larger transmission of this disease 
> resulting in considerably more misery and death if we had not done so.
> Be thoughtful of others. Be brave in these trying times.  Be thankful 
> that we live in a state where reason prevails


What is of paramount importance to this decision, and especially so when 
considering a university city such as Moscow, is the availability of 
testing capacities yielding accurate and timely results for individual 
and, accumulated, local infection results, or the lack thereof, in the 
preferable case.  The Governor needs encouragement to increase testing 
capabilities everywhere in the state, especially those locations that 
can be expected to have greater immigration soon.

As the academic year draws to close locally, and the usually quieter 
summer ensues, now is the time to work diligently and with full effort 
toward obtaining and perfecting local testing capabilities.  All 
relevant local organizations should have well-supplied, well-trained, 
and efficient, effective testing abilities well-honed for the arrival of 
the fall semester student population, from where ever they may have 
traveled.  One can only assume that the fall semester will carry an 
influx of viral infections, and the locality must be well-prepared, and 
mentally braced for the changes that influx will bring to the community. 
Caveat.



Ken


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