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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/25/20 2:17 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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<div>Courtesy of <i>KHQ-6</i> at:</div>
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style="box-sizing: border-box;">Idaho's House of
Representatives votes to end Coronavirus Emergency effective
immediately</span></h1>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family:
HelveticaNeue; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;">BOISE,
Idaho - Today lawmakers in Idaho's House voted to advance a
resolution that ends Idaho Governor Brad Little's
Coronavirus Emergency Declaration.</p>
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href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2020spcl/legislation/HCR001.pdf"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">The resolution</a> 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.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family:
HelveticaNeue; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;">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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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.)</p>
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<p>Ken</p>
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