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Health See other Health Articles Title: Get Your State - City - Re-opened - Send This Letter or Email Now As a constituent and concerned citizen, I am writing to urge you to reopen our schools, businesses and public spaces before May 1. I’m sure that you’re aware that your constituents are suffering immensely: - Many are without employment and have no way to provide for themselves and their families. They live each day in constant worry. - Some have had to close businesses that they poured their hearts and souls into building and sustaining. Their hopes and dreams have been shattered. - Some have relatives who are elderly or fatally ill whom they can’t visit and who will ultimately end up dying alone. This can lead to overwhelming grief and trauma. - Some are not getting needed medical care, and others are being refused life-saving medical treatments by hospitals that are reserving medical supplies for COVID patients. - Many are crippled with fear and anxiety over constant news reports about coronavirus, the possibility of death, and a shortage of hospital beds, supplies and treatments for those who fall ill. Despair, depression and devastation are widespread — be it from job losses, isolation, a lack of support systems, the erosion of fundamental freedoms of healthy, law-abiding citizens, and uncertainty over what the future holds. Staggering unemployment statistics and the loss in GDP alone cannot measure the degree of mass human suffering and the devastating impact stay-at-home orders have had on the human spirit. Projections by the Imperial College London — which were later retracted because they were vastly exaggerated — were used to justify the shutdown of our country, affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of healthy Americans. The model’s authors went on to acknowledge that two-thirds of the people projected to die from COVID-19 would have died with or without the infection due to the vast prevalence of chronic disease and related co-morbidities. Citizens now know that the real numbers and risks from COVID-19 are dramatically different. As such, the proportionate government response must also be dramatically different. It’s extremely troubling that data upon which life-and-death decisions are being made is inaccurate and methodologically flawed. Both the US health statistics agency and the World Health Organization have announced that the certification of “deaths by COVID-19” requires zero proof that the virus is the cause of death. As a result, the official death statistics attributed to COVID-19 do not require cases to be positively confirmed through virus testing. Merely “suspected” cases of COVID-19 are being included in the official numbers. I understand that your office holds very broad police powers during times of emergency. It is your responsibility to implement safety measures to protect all citizens during a declared emergency. In the best interest of our families and your voters, those powers must be used wisely. Public health policies are not intended to, nor will they ever be able to, provide individual or collective health. Public health policies have a proper role in society to shape a landscape conducive to achieving health: clean air; clean water; properly functioning sanitation systems; solid infrastructure; and education and resources on hygiene, nutrition and food preservation standards. It’s not the government’s role to guarantee health or to privilege certain lives over others. It is the government’s role to protect voters’ fundamental freedoms, including the freedom to worship and to provide for their families, without state interference. Closing all schools and public spaces; closing all “non-essential” businesses; mandating that healthy, law-abiding citizens stay at home; and imposing other extreme measures has created widespread devastation. The more than 17 million people who have filed for unemployment over the past few weeks far surpasses anything we saw during the Great Recession of 2008 when 6.6 million people lost their jobs. The shutdown must end by May 1, when more than 26 million individuals are projected to be unemployed. The constant perpetuation of the fear of grave sickness and death must be lifted to return communities back to a state of functioning. I urge you to re-open our state’s schools and businesses by May 1. Please implement commonsense policies to protect the vulnerable while restoring people’s livelihoods and mitigating the real costs associated with shutting down schools and businesses. I implore you to allow healthy individuals to return to work so that our jobs, our economy and the well-being of our citizens are not destroyed. Thank you in advance for taking these bold steps and putting measures in place that serve the best interests of your constituents. Note-*If you live in Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah or Wyoming, these states show no indication of an order for healthy individuals to stay at home or for businesses to close Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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