COVID-19 State of emergency Public Comment from Chase GiacomoFrom:Chase Giacomo
To:Kalispell Meetings Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Do Not Declare Emergency
Date:Monday, April 6, 2020 12:20:16 PM
Hello,
Our council members should NOT pass a Declaration of State of Local Disaster Emergencydue to COVID-19. We are not New York, we are not California, we are Montana. Lets make
decisions based on our locality and our medical data. We are on the verge of making a the aproblem more destructive than disease. In other words, we are on the brink of collapsing our
economy. To quote our local state representative:
"We did not vote on the “shelter-in-place” dictum. We did not vote on the shut down of all“non-essential” businesses. Hysteria leads to a dismissal of the factual. And the factual
analysis of this current “Wuhan flu” is that many of the policies enacted here in Montana areirrational and insulting. Does anyone believe that the “vulnerable” (such as this mid-70s old
man) are incapable of taking appropriate precautions on their own without the governordestroying the livelihoods of all our fellow Montanans? Does anyone really expect now that a
governor has assumed the power to decide who is essential or not, that future governors willnot expand on such policies? Increasing dependence on government and passively accepting
that some “elite” somewhere knows best about our welfare is much more dangerous than theWuhan virus.
The current “pandemic” can be used to illustrate societal problems more destructive than
disease. How Americans view the role of government in their lives and their belief thatgovernment can fix anything, including their mortality, demonstrates the madness that inflicts
people when they become impressed with some delusion and run after it. The present responseto the coronavirus has led to panic that has traded rational responses for irrational reactions."
- State Rep. John Fuller, R-Kalispell
Please do not enact a State of Local Disaster Emergency.
Chase Giacomo