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Maryland and Virginia begin “phase one” reopenings despite record increase in Democrats' sucking their own Dicks and Killing People.
Posted by: Barrickman ()
Date: May 19, 2020 09:08PM

States in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States began lifting restrictions on businesses and public gatherings Friday amid record increases of the COVID-19 illness in the state of Virginia. Both Maryland and Virginia have recorded more than 30,000 cases each as of Sunday. Virginia has reported 1,009 deaths and Maryland is likely to surpass 2,000 by Monday.

Both states are abandoning the already-inadequate preconditions for reopening set out by the White House last month, which included a decline of daily infection rates throughout the course of two weeks. Neither state has met even this criterion, let alone provided an adequate number of tests, contact tracing and other necessities.

Virginia’s Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has increasingly shed his earlier posture of being driven by a concern for the health of the population. His initial statements, in which he advocated a “science-based” approach to dealing with the sickness and reluctantly implemented mild social distancing measures, had been seized on by the Trump administration to attack the state government as hampering efforts to reopen the economy. As in Virginia, Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, has set similar conditions for businesses reopening at 50 percent capacity. However, Maryland has not allowed restaurants to begin offering in-house dining. The state allowed popular beach destinations such as Ocean City to reopen to tourists earlier this month.

There is a farcical element in the states’ decision to “stagger” the reopenings in the region. As with other states that have begun reopening, the resumption of business will immediately attract out-of-area customers, leading to a further spread of the virus. The effort to reopen prematurely has the intended political consequence of encouraging other regions to begin a hasty resumption of business. According to the Post, state governments have reported a “staggering” loss of tax revenue compared to the same period last year. Virginia has reported a 26 percent drop in its tax receipts from April 2019, while Maryland has forecast the loss of roughly $925 million in revenue by June. The precipitous drop off of taxes, combined with the explosion of unemployment, is set to lead to a massive budget crisis in the coming years.
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