6 years ago

Governors Collaborate on Plans to Reopen States Safely Post-Pandemic

Governors on both coasts are collaborating to determine the best way to reopen their states safely after the coronavirus pandemic. Calfornia Governor Gavin Newsom is collaborating with Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Oregon Governor Kate Brown to determine a plan to keep residents safe. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his state would join New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to create a regional group to design a plan to re-open following the pandemic.

Cuomo explained that the states would work together to share “guidelines and parameters to go forward” for the region to establish a “consistent, if not complementary,” plan to reopen. “His workforce is my workforce, my workforce is his workforce, all these decisions affect everyone and the entire region. What this virus says is all of your lines and boundaries make no sense,” Cuomo said of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy.

The current plan to reopen is to take it step-by-step and evaluate data at each level to determine viability. Cuomo said, “What the art form is going to be here … is doing that smartly and doing that productively, and doing that in a coordinated way, doing that in coordination with the other states that are in the area, and doing it as a cooperative effort, where we learn from each other.”

Governor Newsom announced a similar plan, called a “bottom-up” plan to ease restrictions with interventions to slow the spread of coronavirus. Newsom reiterated the importance of using facts and science to drive any reopening plans. “The virus knows no boundaries, knows no borders. You can’t build walls around it and you can’t deny basic fundamental facts,” Newsom said. “We will be driven by facts, we will be driven by evidence will be driven by science will be driven by our hub public health advisers.”

President Trump seemed unhappy with the governor’s agreements, as he tweeted, “For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect.” He then said at a White House press briefing following the governor’s announcements, “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s got to be.”

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