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Dear Ms. King,
Thank you for contacting me about the Commonwealth of Virginia’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Governor’s Stay-at-Home Order.
On March 30th, Governor Northam issued a state-wide Stay-at-Home order to stop the spread of the coronavirus and to ensure the health of all Virginians. This order instructs all individuals in Virginia to remain at their place of residence, except for activities deemed essential. A list of essential activities and the Executive Order can be found at: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/executive-actions/EO-55-Temporary-Stay-at-Home-Order-Due-to-Novel-Coronavirus-(COVID-19).pdf
While drastic measures are necessary to slow the spread of this virus, I understand that these measures have come at tremendous economic and social cost. I will continue to fight to ensure that every Virginian has the resources they need to make it through this emergency.
Returning to normal will require careful consideration and targeted policies to meet the specific needs of Virginia’s diverse regions. The hard truth is, lifting these measures in any part of Virginia before public health officials recommend doing so would cause irreparable damage to both the public health of the Commonwealth and its economy. Consequently, we must work together and follow public health guidelines to make sure that, when we’re ready, Virginia can get back to business responsibly.
I appreciate hearing from you, and if you are in need of personal assistance related to the coronavirus, please don’t hesitate to contact me through my website at: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/helpwithfederalagencies . If you are unable to send information to me online please contact my office by phone at: (202) 224-2023.
For the latest updates on this evolving situation and additional resources for Virginians, please visit my website at: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=a-message-from-senator-mark-r-warner-on-the-coronavirus-outbreak .
This is a challenge unlike any we have faced in recent memory, but I believe that we as a country can and will get through this together.
Sincerely,
MARK R. WARNER
United States Senator
"Editorial comment: He's absolutely right about the risk of irreparable damage--from coronavirus, and from ordinary colds, flu, streppy-bugs and so on--because we are losing the Greatest Generation, and they'll be enough of a loss if they die out gradually rather than all at once; scroll further down this page, or click on https://priscillaking.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-stay-healthy-without-lockdown.html , for some fact-based-not-politically-based thoughts on protecting those who really are at risk for coronavirus.
I appreciate people maintaining a good healthy distance, playing non-contact sports, and covering their own faces if they're especially concerned about their own risk. I think we should keep that up when we go back to work. It's not only the Greatest Generation who benefit from keeping a healthy distance between people. Nobody, including themselves, anticipates how much harm some teenagers do to themselves and their friends when they think they're over a cold and can resume playing basketball, dancing, etc., and they actually have mononucleosis.
But I want to repeat, here and elsewhere...most active and healthy people who've had the coronavirus describe it as much less of an inconvenience than the reactions many of us have every time the Southern Railroad Company sprays glyphosate along the railroad. In addition to my own personal pain, cramps, bleeding, etc., which I've been tracking and observing for enough years to recognize that the number and intensity of my symptoms has depended on how much vapor drift wind and rain conditions have allowed, I'm now also aware of the seemingly different, seemingly coincidental way every living thing around me seems to be suffering--or dying!--at the same times I'm being made sick. I now know it's not a coincidence when puddles of blood-flecked froth that have spewed out of people or animals, or rags that have been used to wipe the froth off people, appear on the road at the same time I'm flushing blood down the toilet. This week, once again, my neighborhood has been deliberately poisoned. As so many times before. I'd like to see our Governor issue some orders to protect people from that.
And I also want to urge our Senators to stand firm against the radical, half-grown and/or crowd-crazed urban wingnuts in their party who want to use the coronavirus panic to destroy more small businesses, put more people out of their homes, and get more formerly honorable Virginians into the welfare trap.
While neither of our U.S. Senators has ever really represented me, past ones who were Republicans didn't either, and I wouldn't call the ones who were Democrats wingnuts. It's that little peril from New York City, the one who could have been a model if she hadn't kept her original teeth...I can understand why men feel uninclined to argue with her, whether they see her as a daughter-substitute or simply as hot stuff. She's not really representing the interests of either young people or multiracial people or even New Yorkers, but she claims to be. She lays that "bigot" guilt trip on any older, paler-skinned, or male person who doesn't blindly follow every word she says--and frankly, I don't care if she wants to call me an ageist because I know I'm not: most of her ideas are very bad. Our whole Congress need to listen to the young working people in their own districts who want to keep their jobs, homes, and businesses, rather than to anyone who's silly enough not to recognize that one "stimulus" handout program has already been more than we needed.
We need to focus on steady reduction of all federal handout programs, on reducing the number of people who receive any kind of public assistance every year until
(a) it's possible to deliver emergency relief payments to all survivors of personal emergencies, such as injuries, floods, fires, during the month after the emergency; and
(b) it's possible for all able-bodied people to get by without handouts after that month.
I would like to see reduction of the number of people receiving any form of public assistance become a criterion in every elected official's campaign for reelection...and likewise in the relevant government employees' consideration for pay increases, promotions, or continuation of employment.
The young woman who sold me coffee (to go) this morning may not be as sophisticated as Lady Ravenwaves from New York; she has ordinary brown hair rather than jet-black, but she's cute too, Senator, and she has a vote for you. You need to represent her interests over AOC from NYC's.
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