CrimsonPhantom
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California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
Quote:SACRAMENTO — Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced an agreement on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future.
Joint statement from the Governors:
COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. In the coming weeks, the West Coast will flip the script on COVID-19 – with our states acting in close coordination and collaboration to ensure the virus can never spread wildly in our communities.
We are announcing that California, Oregon and Washington have agreed to work together on a shared approach for reopening our economies – one that identifies clear indicators for communities to restart public life and business.
While each state is building a state-specific plan, our states have agreed to the following principles as we build out a West Coast framework:
–Our residents’ health comes first. As home to one in six Americans and gateway to the rest of the world, the West Coast has an outsized stake in controlling and ultimately defeating COVID-19.
–Health outcomes and science – not politics – will guide these decisions. Modifications to our states’ stay at home orders must be made based off our understanding of the total health impacts of COVID-19, including: the direct impact of the disease on our communities; the health impact of measures introduced to control the spread in communities —particularly felt by those already experiencing social disadvantage prior to COVID-19; and our health care systems’ ability to ensure care for those who may become sick with COVID-19 and other conditions. This effort will be guided by data. We need to see a decline in the rate of spread of the virus before large-scale reopening, and we will be working in coordination to identify the best metrics to guide this.
–Our states will only be effective by working together. Each state will work with its local leaders and communities within its borders to understand what’s happening on the ground and adhere to our agreed upon approach.
Through quick and decisive action, each of our states has made significant progress in flattening the curve and slowing the spread of COVID-19 among the broader public. Now, our public health leaders will focus on four goals that will be critical for controlling the virus in the future.
Protecting vulnerable populations at risk for severe disease if infected. This includes a concerted effort to prevent and fight outbreaks in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
Ensuring an ability to care for those who may become sick with COVID-19 and other conditions. This will require adequate hospital surge capacity and supplies of personal protective equipment.
Mitigating the non-direct COVID-19 health impacts, particularly on disadvantaged communities.
Protecting the general public by ensuring any successful lifting of interventions includes the development of a system for testing, tracking and isolating. The states will work together to share best practices.
COVID-19 doesn’t follow state or national boundaries. It will take every level of government, working together, and a full picture of what’s happening on the ground.
In the coming days the governors, their staff and health officials will continue conversations about this regional pact to recovery.
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Leftist in NM want to join this crap.
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
Hmmmm....the flow of people and goods in California is more connected to southern Nevada and Arizona than it is to Oregon and Washington....but at least they're contiguous states.
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
They do need to work together. Lets say that California, Colorado and Washington still get more cases and can't open up yet? If Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana opened up? Then, you get infected people leaving those states to go to the opened states spreading the virus to the other states. From what I am hearing, the west coast states including the Republican governors are working together to try and opened the states at the same time. Midwest states and the northeast states are doing the exact same things.
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
Glad to hear it. A pact like this will help set up the working relationships and structure for their eventual secession.
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04-18-2020 07:38 AM |
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
(04-18-2020 07:38 AM)Ohio Poly Wrote: Glad to hear it. A pact like this will help set up the working relationships and structure for their eventual secession.
Bye bye Felicia.
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
(04-18-2020 07:38 AM)Ohio Poly Wrote: Glad to hear it. A pact like this will help set up the working relationships and structure for their eventual secession.
Great idea. Then they can ban guns for everybody except criminals and illegal immigrants. Bye...
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
(04-18-2020 07:38 AM)Ohio Poly Wrote: Glad to hear it. A pact like this will help set up the working relationships and structure for their eventual secession.
Go with them.
They can GTFO.
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
(04-18-2020 07:38 AM)Ohio Poly Wrote: Glad to hear it. A pact like this will help set up the working relationships and structure for their eventual secession.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
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shere khan
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RE: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact
We are gonna need more wall
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