Do not continue the state of emergency.
“How will that help anything?” You ask. “We won’t get the money, and the health department, under the state will still continue making their lawless decrees.”
Here is how this will help:
1. We will be the county of truth and honesty. Refusing to perpetuate the lie that there is any kind of emergency going on will show the people of this county that it is OK to live life again. With an average of 2.5 deaths from Covid (or appendicitis, or stroke, or whatever they really died from) per day in a county of 3.4 million people, where 59 people die EVERY DAY of other things, there is obviously no emergency. Allow the people of OC to know that.
2. We will be bold and courageous in an era of giving in to peer pressure and going with the flow. Imagine how refreshing it would be for people to see leaders leading!
3. Hopefully, we will set an example for other counties, who will then feel empowered to open up and let their people be free, as well.
4. We will no longer be committing fraud as a county
Rescind the state of emergency.