[Vision2020] Idaho's House of Representatives votes to end Coronavirus Emergency effective immediately

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 8/25/20 2:17 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
> Courtesy of /KHQ-6/ at:
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> https://www.khq.com/news/idahos-house-of-representatives-votes-to-end-coronavirus-emergency-effective-immediately/article_a530255a-e713-11ea-8410-6f4b42473352.html
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>   Idaho's House of Representatives votes to end Coronavirus Emergency
>   effective immediately
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> BOISE, Idaho - Today lawmakers in Idaho's House voted to advance a 
> resolution that ends Idaho Governor Brad Little's Coronavirus 
> Emergency Declaration.
>
> The resolution 
> <https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2020spcl/legislation/HCR001.pdf> effectively 
> lifts all restrictions across the state. Lawmakers voted and passed 
> the resolution 48-20 amid a special session that the Governor called 
> to deal with liability laws and mail-in voting concerns.
>
> The resolution now heads to the Senate and if it passes the Governor's 
> Emergency declaration, that he put in place back in March, is over.
>

This appears to be news of a dangerous possibility.  If the resolution 
passes in the Senate, thus ending the emergency declaration, and if 
local University students start behaving as if coronavirus does not 
exist, e.g., going maskless, meeting in many and various groups with no 
attendance recording, and therefore with no possibility for contact 
tracing, there appears to be a strong possibility that COVID-19 cases 
will increase chaotically, exponentially, and, of course, deadly.

One is reminded of the Hermione Granger quote in the first Harry Potter 
book, Sorcerer's Stone, where she comments to Harry and Ron after one of 
their early adventures: "Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed 
before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed. 
Or worse, expelled."

The idea of mass expulsions, or chaos forfend, of the closure of the 
entire University for some period of time, is not beyond horrific 
imagination.  (Well, maybe not the imagination of an economist or a 
horror novelist.  Take your pick.)



Ken


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