The Board of Public Health has confirmed that our requested changes to the local response strategy are now in effect. This outcome serves as a testament to the persistence shown by those who demanded a tailored approach for our community. We will continue to monitor the daily updates to ensure …
July 21, 2020
Final supporters
ReOpen St Mary’s
County Commissioners
Dr. Brewster, St. Mary’s Department of Public Health
We urge you to hold a St. Mary’s County Board of Public Health meeting weekly to address the County response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting can be held during the normal County Commissioners meeting.
We request you address citizen concerns during the meeting to include questions received on the COVID-19 Hotline – 301 475 4911 - as well as questions received during the meeting from members of the public. This can be accomplished by telephone as was recently done at the public hearing on emergency COVID-19 response funding.
Additionally, we request you create a St Mary’s County specific response to this pandemic and any future pandemic. The response should be tailored to St. Mary’s County, adjusting state and federal guidance for our unique county geography and demographics. The Federal and State guidelines have been geared mostly toward large, urban centers and fraught with glaring inconsistencies and gaps.
We ask you to end the lockdown of businesses, churches and citizens by authorizing the opening of all businesses and public facilities, while continuing to encourage citizens to take precautions necessary to maintain public health. Citizens should be made aware daily of the track of the spread of the COVID-19 in St. Mary’s. The local Health Department should publish a graph updated daily with the number of infections on the vertical axis and time, by day, on the horizontal axis. This information is critical to guide local business owners in making their reopening plans and to inform workers of local conditions, so they can contact their healthcare providers to create and implement protocols that will keep them as safe as possible.
St Mary’s County citizens understand the necessity of sanitation and using preventive measures in order to minimize COVID-19 and other viruses’ impact on the community. Already they have chosen to follow the guidelines put forward under Governor Hogan’s executive orders. These orders likely were not necessary, as most citizens would have followed the guidelines if just asked. Therefore, by lifting the lock-down order, opening businesses and churches, and encouraging people to continue the guidelines, you return their freedom of choice. We believe you will see citizens continue to follow and implement precautions of their OWN FREE WILL.
It is time to begin to heal our community by encouraging people to return to a more normal routine and take steps to safely get back to their lives. The effects of keeping people segregated and not working become more dangerous to mental health the longer the lock-down order is kept in place. A weekly meeting of the St. Mary’s Board of Public Health is key to securing the health, safety and well-being of Citizens as we move forward together with a local pandemic response.
Updates
May 21, 2020
The steady growth of this petition demonstrates a clear community desire for local transparency and accountability. This momentum indicates that our neighbors are ready for a more tailored approach to public health policy. I appreciate the time everyone has taken to advocate for these necessary changes to our county operations.
Reached 100 supporters
May 21, 2020
8 Comments
How stupid can you be? Like really let's open up and get the virus we can't see...it's killeing people left and right. By opening up you put the whole county at risk, you,your mom,dad, kids everyone you love, why cause your bored at home safe.do you want to be safe at home or risk you and your familys life by not being patient. There's no fix no cure you can die and never see your loved ones agin. But I guess you don't care about family or friends huh??? What a joke I hope you all get it and suffer....
Finally someone said it. The isolation is doing more damage than the virus ever will at this point. Open the doors.
Exactly. Why are we following rules meant for Baltimore when we live here in St Marys? It makes zero sense to keep us locked up like this.
Enough is enough. My business is dying and bills dont stop just cause the governor says so. Open it back up now.
We need to get back to normal. People are losing everything and the state rules dont even make sense for us down here.
John Jones. Maybe you should look at the actual reports submitted to CDC. The virus is not "killing people left and right." In St Mary's county there have been 48 deaths out of a population of 113,000 over the past 3 months; hardly an epidemic. This virus is fairly similar to every annual flu for the past century. The only difference is that we do not have a vaccine....yet, (and for centuries, the human race survived without vaccines). The majority of deaths are with people who have pre-existing conditions, and since many people in nursing homes have pre-existing conditions, they are the most vulnerable. For a normal healthy person, the chances of catching and dying of this virus is about the same as the regular flu or less, which is extremely low. 80% of the people who die from COVID are over 70 years old AND have pre-existing conditions. Did you know that 50% of the people admitted to a nursing home dies within 6 months? It used to be called "old age." Yes, COVID may be a contributing factor to an earlier death of nursing home patients, but that's what caused their death. There is a difference between dying "with" COVID vs dying "because of" COVID. The CDC definition of how to count a COVID death includes those who die "with" COVID. This means that if you are killed in a car crash, but you test positive of COVID, then the death is counted in the total COVID deaths. If you look at the data, you can see that some states break out the "probable" deaths from the "death certificate" deaths. From this you can see that the death numbers are inflated. The overwhelming overreach of the Government in this conjured up crisis is nothing but tyranny and a violation of the 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
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The Board of Public Health has confirmed that our requested changes to the local response strategy are now in effect. This outcome serves as a testament to the persistence shown by those who demanded a tailored approach for our community. We will continue to monitor the daily updates to ensure …
July 21, 2020
Final supporters
ReOpen St Mary’s
County Commissioners
Dr. Brewster, St. Mary’s Department of Public Health
We urge you to hold a St. Mary’s County Board of Public Health meeting weekly to address the County response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting can be held during the normal County Commissioners meeting.
We request you address citizen concerns during the meeting to include questions received on the COVID-19 Hotline – 301 475 4911 - as well as questions received during the meeting from members of the public. This can be accomplished by telephone as was recently done at the public hearing on emergency COVID-19 response funding.
Additionally, we request you create a St Mary’s County specific response to this pandemic and any future pandemic. The response should be tailored to St. Mary’s County, adjusting state and federal guidance for our unique county geography and demographics. The Federal and State guidelines have been geared mostly toward large, urban centers and fraught with glaring inconsistencies and gaps.
We ask you to end the lockdown of businesses, churches and citizens by authorizing the opening of all businesses and public facilities, while continuing to encourage citizens to take precautions necessary to maintain public health. Citizens should be made aware daily of the track of the spread of the COVID-19 in St. Mary’s. The local Health Department should publish a graph updated daily with the number of infections on the vertical axis and time, by day, on the horizontal axis. This information is critical to guide local business owners in making their reopening plans and to inform workers of local conditions, so they can contact their healthcare providers to create and implement protocols that will keep them as safe as possible.
St Mary’s County citizens understand the necessity of sanitation and using preventive measures in order to minimize COVID-19 and other viruses’ impact on the community. Already they have chosen to follow the guidelines put forward under Governor Hogan’s executive orders. These orders likely were not necessary, as most citizens would have followed the guidelines if just asked. Therefore, by lifting the lock-down order, opening businesses and churches, and encouraging people to continue the guidelines, you return their freedom of choice. We believe you will see citizens continue to follow and implement precautions of their OWN FREE WILL.
It is time to begin to heal our community by encouraging people to return to a more normal routine and take steps to safely get back to their lives. The effects of keeping people segregated and not working become more dangerous to mental health the longer the lock-down order is kept in place. A weekly meeting of the St. Mary’s Board of Public Health is key to securing the health, safety and well-being of Citizens as we move forward together with a local pandemic response.
Updates
May 21, 2020
The steady growth of this petition demonstrates a clear community desire for local transparency and accountability. This momentum indicates that our neighbors are ready for a more tailored approach to public health policy. I appreciate the time everyone has taken to advocate for these necessary changes to our county operations.
Reached 100 supporters
May 21, 2020
8 Comments
LET US WORK
How stupid can you be? Like really let's open up and get the virus we can't see...it's killeing people left and right. By opening up you put the whole county at risk, you,your mom,dad, kids everyone you love, why cause your bored at home safe.do you want to be safe at home or risk you and your familys life by not being patient. There's no fix no cure you can die and never see your loved ones agin. But I guess you don't care about family or friends huh??? What a joke I hope you all get it and suffer....
Finally someone said it. The isolation is doing more damage than the virus ever will at this point. Open the doors.
Exactly. Why are we following rules meant for Baltimore when we live here in St Marys? It makes zero sense to keep us locked up like this.
Enough is enough. My business is dying and bills dont stop just cause the governor says so. Open it back up now.
We need to get back to normal. People are losing everything and the state rules dont even make sense for us down here.
John Jones. Maybe you should look at the actual reports submitted to CDC. The virus is not "killing people left and right." In St Mary's county there have been 48 deaths out of a population of 113,000 over the past 3 months; hardly an epidemic. This virus is fairly similar to every annual flu for the past century. The only difference is that we do not have a vaccine....yet, (and for centuries, the human race survived without vaccines). The majority of deaths are with people who have pre-existing conditions, and since many people in nursing homes have pre-existing conditions, they are the most vulnerable. For a normal healthy person, the chances of catching and dying of this virus is about the same as the regular flu or less, which is extremely low. 80% of the people who die from COVID are over 70 years old AND have pre-existing conditions. Did you know that 50% of the people admitted to a nursing home dies within 6 months? It used to be called "old age." Yes, COVID may be a contributing factor to an earlier death of nursing home patients, but that's what caused their death. There is a difference between dying "with" COVID vs dying "because of" COVID. The CDC definition of how to count a COVID death includes those who die "with" COVID. This means that if you are killed in a car crash, but you test positive of COVID, then the death is counted in the total COVID deaths. If you look at the data, you can see that some states break out the "probable" deaths from the "death certificate" deaths. From this you can see that the death numbers are inflated. The overwhelming overreach of the Government in this conjured up crisis is nothing but tyranny and a violation of the 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
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