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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 03:04 PM Mar 2020

Is the coronavirus crisis R.I. Governor Raimondo's 'flannel shirt' moment?

PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Islanders were stunned when health officials announced on March 1 that the state had its first case of the coronavirus -- a chaperone on a private school’s trip to Europe during February vacation.

Within days, Governor Gina M. Raimondo called for all high schools and colleges in Rhode Island to cancel or postpone overseas trips, ordered all state employees who had recently traveled to certain countries to stay home, and asked private employers to do the same with their workers.

As her health department moved to set up drive-through testing sites, Raimondo declared a state of emergency. She urged all Rhode Islanders to avoid big crowds and pointedly advised Newport to cancel its St. Patrick’s Day parade. (It did.)

She closed all public schools in the state for this week and told administrators to use the time to set up distance learning plans. She banned all visitors from nursing homes, called on child care centers to close for at least a week, and ordered Rhode Islanders returning from overseas trips to self-quarantine.

Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/19/metro/is-coronavirus-crisis-ri-governor-raimondos-flannel-shirt-moment/

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Is the coronavirus crisis R.I. Governor Raimondo's 'flannel shirt' moment? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2020 OP
Gov. Raimondo has been on top of this from the start. Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #1

Totally Tunsie

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1. Gov. Raimondo has been on top of this from the start.
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 10:50 PM
Mar 2020

Her latest admonition is that anyone flying into RI, even domestically, must self-isolate for 14 days. She has National Guard stationed at the airport to greet and inform arriving passengers. They even affix a plastic hospital-style tag to their wrist for ID purposes, and plan to follow-up on arriving travelers.

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