Spot on. Clarendon and Courthouse bars are packed with unmasked patrons drinking, eating, laughing, spraying droplet nuclei everywhere. Every day a super spreader event. Why can’t these people stay home and drink alone like decent alcoholics.
I’m writing to voice my concern with Arlington’s transition plan into Virginia’s Phase Three reopening. The Governor’s plan falls far short of the WHO’s recommendations, and capitulates to the demands of the Trump White House and and the Dept. of Commerce at the cost of Virginian and Arlingtonian lives.
My full time work is in live theater entertainment, So I am among those hit hardest by Phase One and Two protocols on public gatherings. I understand the economic risks from them because I suffer first hand.
I would find it unconscionable to open my theater to an audience with the infection rates in Arlington as they currently stand and are projected forward. The deaths of anyone who contracted COVID in my theater would be on my hands.
Those deaths and more will be on the hands of the county board if you continue to ignore science in favor of commerce.
You have an opportunity to set a standard here, to be among those who follow the success of stricter European, Asian and Pacific protocols that emphasize distancing by closing businesses, fund contact tracing, and support citizens financially during their loss in work and business.
Spot on. Clarendon and Courthouse bars are packed with unmasked patrons drinking, eating, laughing, spraying droplet nuclei everywhere. Every day a super spreader event. Why can’t these people stay home and drink alone like decent alcoholics.
The email I sent to the county board (countyboard@arlingtonva.us):
Hello,
I’m writing to voice my concern with Arlington’s transition plan into Virginia’s Phase Three reopening. The Governor’s plan falls far short of the WHO’s recommendations, and capitulates to the demands of the Trump White House and and the Dept. of Commerce at the cost of Virginian and Arlingtonian lives.
My full time work is in live theater entertainment, So I am among those hit hardest by Phase One and Two protocols on public gatherings. I understand the economic risks from them because I suffer first hand.
I would find it unconscionable to open my theater to an audience with the infection rates in Arlington as they currently stand and are projected forward. The deaths of anyone who contracted COVID in my theater would be on my hands.
Those deaths and more will be on the hands of the county board if you continue to ignore science in favor of commerce.
You have an opportunity to set a standard here, to be among those who follow the success of stricter European, Asian and Pacific protocols that emphasize distancing by closing businesses, fund contact tracing, and support citizens financially during their loss in work and business.
You need to make it easier for people to comment. I tried 3 times and lost half an hour trying to post a comment.