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Watch this video: it shows part of what we are as a County and what America can be
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The video above is from Arlington County employees to mark Pride Month. 10 years ago, who would have thought we would have made as much progress in our country, Virginia, and Arlington with and for our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers? It makes me proud to be from Arlington and hopeful, this July 4th, about what we can do in America, if we work at it.
Second, worry.
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This morning's Washington Post with a graph of the rise in Coronavirus cases.
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The above picture from today's front page of the Washington Post shows that the Caronvirus will come back and lead to deaths if we all don't 1) wear a mask when out 2) social distance 3) wash our hands often.
Northern Virginia is not in the clear, so you may ask why Phase 3? Like most of you, I look at the numbers every morning. Northern Virginia's have been very, very good. Arlington as well. I also see the pictures of bars and restaurants and they worry me.
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But, overall, the numbers from Arlington and Northern Virginia each day over the past two weeks have been good, very good. The plateauing is more Virginia as a whole and not Northern Virginia where our numbers have been going down. And the reality is that the region as a whole politically via other County Board's and elected officials is simply not in a place to stay in Phase 2, now. Even if the Governor's specific actions with regard to gatherings or gyms, for example, are not what I would wish, this is the right step overall.
So, we must move forward, carefully and with discipline...
This July 4th weekend in Arlington we must: 1)Wear a mask whenever moving near people 2)social distance even when in small groups with friends unless they are in your 4 to 8 people or less who you live with or see, and 3) wash your hands (like every time you wonder if you lost the germ chain of contacts). Vigilantly, we must be thinking of this calmly but clearly.
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