PENNSYLVANIA… April 21, 2020…. Addressing the crowd at the Capitol, State Rep. Russ Diamond accused Wolf of “arbitrarily and capriciously” deciding how the lockdown should continue and failing to consider the financial repercussions.
“A governor who shuts down an entire state, without consulting the business and industry experts, whose offices are all within two or three blocks from his own, right here in Harrisburg, is not life sustaining,” Diamond said.
“Creating a one-size-fits-all list of business and industry categories, and deciding which one you think are essential and which aren’t, from the confines of some Harrisburg cubicle, is not life sustaining.”
Diamond also discussed the psychological damage the lockdown is having on Pennsylvania residents, with an increasing number saying they are “frightened, depressed, on the verge of breakdowns, or in despair.”
He added: “We cannot allow the cure to be worse than the disease. End this shutdown now, and together we’ll get Pennsylvanians back to their livelihoods—before the human toll of economic ruin and psychological despair, outweighs the toll from the virus itself.”
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