With Donald Trump Gone, Doug Ducey puts Arizona Reopening on Pause

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Doug Ducey is doing everything to close down Arizona and contain the spread of the Coronavirus except actually officially saying so, taking the initiative, and leading from the top.

Last week the Governor gave Mayors of Arizona cities and towns the power to proclaim mask-wearing requirements for their local municipalities.

He brought in the National Guard to help with contact tracing.

He even filmed a PSA encouraging people ( most of the ones who did not go to the Trump rally on Tuesday) to wear masks.

Now, with Trump out of town, Coronavirus cases and fatalities rising (especially among the 20 to 44-year-old group,) hospital capacity decreasing, the Grand Canyon State Governor and Dr. Cara Crist, announced a pause in Arizona’s reopening.

Mr. Ducey recommended that people:

  • Avoid large social gatherings when possible.
  • Work from home if they can.
  • Stay home unless they really need to go out.

The Governor, probably fearing the people that would make up his base on any future run for higher office, did not make this an official, stay at home order.

Mr. Ducey’s actions today are steps in the right direction but it is fair to comment that he should have:

  • Taken these actions weeks earlier when it was apparent Arizona was on an upward COVID 19 trend. It may have freed more hospital bed space and saved more lives if he had acted sooner.
  • Told his science-denying base to go to hell and act in the best interests of all the people in Arizona, including the ones who think God (or Trump) will protect them, and issued a statewide order to contain the spread.

Hopefully, his actions the last two weeks, timid half measures that they are, will result in people saying “better late than never” instead of “too little too late.”

 

7 thoughts on “With Donald Trump Gone, Doug Ducey puts Arizona Reopening on Pause”

  2. Maybe this “new and improved “ Ducey will have the balls to tell Pence not to bother coming to AZ next week, because RAGING COVID LIVES HERE and we don’t need him here! Let’s see how THAT works!

    • “RAGING COVID LIVES HERE!”

      This is the correct amount of outrage.

      All 330,000,000 Americans should be in the streets. Six feet apart and wearing masks.

      127,000 dead Americans as of today.

      That’s a Bhengazi every day for 87 years.

      That’s 127,000 Americans who won’t be here for the 4th of July.

      Trump/Pence/Barr/The GOP own all 127,000.

      And Ducey owns 1,535 dead Arizonans.

  3. PS… And BECAUSE he didn’t do it right the first time, he should definitely not allow schools across the state to reopen. They need to open, at the very least, AFTER Labor Day. For the safety of all of us.

  4. Read this and tell us all again that Ducey is on the right track and since the jackass is gone, he’s finally making the right decisions. No. And that ‘strongly suggest wearing masks in public’ is nothing but a cop out. He needed to mandate that from the start. No questions asked. He’s been a failure. It is worse here because of the ineffectiveness of leadership. And it didn’t have to be this way.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/how-arizona-lost-control-of-the-epidemic/2020/06/25/f692a5a8-b658-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html

  5. When California wanted detailed reports from self-driving car companies testing on public roads, Ducey said “come to Arizona and do whatever you want, we don’t care”.

    And one woman died in Tempe when she was run down by a self driving Uber while the vehicle operator played on her phone.

    Sometimes a little regulation is there for a reason.

    Now Ducey is determined to add to his death count because everything in Arizona is in a strip mall and strip malls are owned by investors who can’t get their rent money if the local nail salon is closed.

    And Ducey bows deep to his One True God Money, because we can always make more humans, but if investors miss earnings for a quarter? Or for a year?

    The horror! The horror!

    I’m not a fan of Cuomo and he made mistakes, too, but he acted like a leader and listened to the medical professionals, and he kept the public updated, and didn’t try to gloss over the bad news.

    Ducey abandoned his post like a coward and is criminally negligent and people are losing their businesses, children are losing out on learning, and oh yeah, people are dying.

  6. Dougie has been running for national office for years anticipating post Trump (I’ve cut taxes every year while governor). Now he has flushed it all away with his half assed methods trying to satisfy every interest group and the Trumpets, while surely blaming Democratic big city mayors when things go south. Well they are going south Dougie, and half assed leadership won’t cut it with this virus. (See Governor Cuomo for real courageous leadership) The virus doesnt give a damn about Dougie’s ambitions.

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