Trump declares disaster as Wolf shuts schools indefinitely
Source: AP
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The president declared a major disaster in Pennsylvania on Monday night, capping off a day that saw nearly 700 new cases as Gov. Tom Wolf extended the closing of schools and nonessential businesses indefinitely. Wolf also added four more counties Carbon, Cumberland, Dauphin and Schuylkill to a separate stay-at-home order and extended its duration by more than three weeks, through at least April 30.
Trumps order allows for federal assistance to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 10 million Pennsylvania residents, or 80% of the states population, have now been instructed to remain in their homes, with exceptions that include working at a business thats still open, going to the grocery store or pharmacy, visiting a doctor, caring for a relative or heading outside to exercise.
The Democratic governor said he knows the extended shutdown of businesses, schools and swaths of daily life isnt easy to hear, but is necessary to save lives and keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Were going to keep our schools and businesses closed as long as we need to keep them closed to keep Pennsylvania safe. Right now, it isnt safe, he said.
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Freedomofspeech
(4,227 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)If she wouldn't have won the election we would have KKK Kobach who is an undying Trump bootlicker. He would have done NOTHING until about now.
Governor Kelly got on this early and shuttered everything in the State considered non-essential when there might have only been 50- 100 or cases State wide. The numbers have risen but would be ten times that amount with Kobach as Gov.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)literally a life-or-death difference.
And all those trumpers who probably were whining when she took action early on--when case numbers were low, because they couldn't understand exponential growth--will think differently now that case numbers are exploding all over the nation.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)power to take such actions.
sadly, unsurprising.
Anyone too willfully ignorant or stupid to understand the trajectory that the course of the pandemic would take--based on well-documented, well-studied previous examples--shouldn't be in elected office.
certainot
(9,090 posts)stations - the same stations that followed the limbaugh and trump lead to call the virus a hoax for 2 months and got us into this disaster
it's what the do in emergencies - blame democrats, and like after katrina it works because democrats don't know it's happening, because it's on rw talk radio, and do not respond
every dem gov will get the same treatment while republican officials and trump will be be getting the excuses - months of it until the elections
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)maybe we were spoiled by FDR's post-war stability. With minor skirmishes frequently, it's been a glorious 75 years.
But now it feels like we are in a hybrid of The Black Death, World War I and World War II, the Spanish Flu 1918, the French Resistance. The feeling of safety, an illusion at all times for certainly there is major low-level risk in most lives, is a memory of safer times.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)You had polio still running rampant (with FDR a prime example of that), plus TB, measles/Rubella, etc. Back then, they nailed "quarantined" signs on doors (my Depression-era mom would talk about that). But it's been a continuing struggle that does flare up every once in awhile.
The problem at this moment in time, is something that I heard mentioned in a brief analysis blip on the radio a day or so ago - i.e., at this time in history, we are a society that is bombarded with and accustomed to a lot of "distractions" - notably TV with thousands of channels available now, AND the internet, with even more media options and other ways to continually interact. So that bred a sort of mania where you have more people going "stir crazy" if they can't get their "fix".
Reminds me of the scene near the end of Jim Carrey's "The Cable Guy", where he ("Ernie" ) attempts to commit suicide by falling off a sat tower, with the Matthew Broderick character ("Stephen" ) trying to hold on to him to keep him from falling, until Ernie spouts a foreboding movie line that seals it for Stephen and he lets go. - allowing Ernie to fall. Ernie ends up landing in the middle of the sat dish, essentially cutting off the TV feed for everyone in the area, who stare like zombies at their TVs that have gone blank ( with "snow" ). Then one guy eventually turns the TV off, turns on the light, and picks up a book on a table next to him and starts opening the pages, looking at them in amazement.
My mother talked about the fear they had back during WW2, when the sirens went off (mostly test) and everyone pulled down their shades and covered windows with drapes because "even a tiny flicker of light could be seen from a plane" (according to her -something often drummed into people to get the message across). I know many of us on DU remember the days of the "blackout shades" in school too and that was still going all the way until almost the '70s...
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)You FUCK...........
Igel
(35,356 posts)There they had wards like this set up with them packed in like sardines.
They always had them staggered--if you were on a cot and looked right or left you'd only see feet in the next cot over, wherever you were.
Don't know for sure why they arranged the patients that way--didn't see any reference to it.
Still, arranged that way, if you coughed or sneezed the spray would mostly hit just feet.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)you can see some rolling partitions... When Cuomo had a presser a couple days ago at Jacob Javitz, you could see the beds separated by partitions (similar to the pic with curtains). So I expect that is how they are going to configure people at this point... Some of the old 1918 pics showed facilities doing similar with some sort of sheet for a partition between beds.
Hugin
(33,198 posts)They were still operating under the concept of "bad air" and ethers that had grown out of the wide scale cholera and tuberculosis epidemics of the 1600s - early 1900s. The idea of pathogens causing disease wouldn't become widespread for another decade or so.
Their idea was based on the fact that unclean or unsanitary conditions led to disease. Which, in reality, isn't that far off the mark. They created sanitariums where conditions were thought to be as clean as possible. To eliminate these unseen gasses which were causing the diseases. The patients in those pictures were likely staggered like they were in an attempt to keep them from polluting each other's air.
Haven't we come a long way in the past 100 years!
Clean and sanitary meant bright and white. To this day vestiges of this paradigm can be seen in the fact that hospitals, Drs coats, and Nurse's uniforms are traditionally white. Just look at the paint on the Navy's hospital ship.
Florence Nightingale was a critically important figure in the whole sanitary movement. I don't have many heros, but, Florence Nightingale is most certainly on my list.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)la-trucker
(283 posts)and without his help.