![]() ![]() Think about WW2 propaganda posters updated for social media. Launch a major plain-language public education effort. Makes sure food pantries have partners so vulnerable individuals without access to cars or the internet can receive deliveries by calling a central number, like 2-1-1 or 3-1-1. Put systems in places to help grocery stores and pharmacies manage the flow, like using license plate numbers or the city’s trash pick-up days to determine who shops on what days. Ask major companies to loan their logistics experts to the cause. Manage anxiety by addressing resource panic. What is happening in Italy isn’t convincing Harris County residents reluctant to stay home to stay home, but seeing data about neighbors might. The front page of the Harris County Health Department features an easy-to-understand world map of hot spots, followed by a fact-filled but visually challenging to digest grid of Harris County cases. Be as transparent as possible, and use information that drives the behavior you want to see, which is sheltering in place and isolating people from each other to slow the spread. Ask experts to design a Coronavirus dashboard with clean, simple infographics that are updated at regular intervals, at least several times a day. Set it for 14 with a promise of daily updates and a reassessment with the option one- or two-week extensions announced on the 12th day. Do whatever it takes to protect their lives even if they post mean things about you on Facebook.įirst and immediately, order a shelter in place with an exception for absolutely essential services-medical, emergency, and food. Ignore the head-in-the-sand crowd claiming closing restaurants and businesses is somehow taking away their freedom. Do not be the people who let that window close. ![]() Houston and Harris County have the smallest of windows for reducing the impact COVID-19 has on our shared medical and civic resources.īe the leaders we elected you to be. Governor Abbott just today said it is up to local officials, not him, to make the difficult calls. ![]() The President won’t do anything-he says he’s our back-up plan. Judge Hidalgo, what are you waiting for? You yourself have said you feel the urgency of what Governor Richards said. Mayor Turner, what have you got to lose? You can’t run for mayor again. Order as strict a shelter-in-place as you can. Judge Hidalgo and Mayor Turner, if you need to raise hell to reduce the number of people who die, raise hell. Governor Ann Richards, asked what she would have done differently had she known she would only have one term in office, said she would’ve raised more hell. It makes sense for city & county to coordinate but Judge Hidalgo does have the authority to make this decision on her own and I hope that if she can’t rally the other electeds, she’ll do it anyway. or on Twitter Thank Judge Hidalgo & encouarge her to press for stay-at-home orders ASAP at on Twitter. I could be wrong, but keep pressure on him to put stricter measures in place so that people stay home. That’s my takeaway from how this is playing out. ReadyHarris.Org has info and the intake process. ![]() Talks with Houston mayor & regional mayors & county judges are ongoing so they can act in a “data-driven” way and make one announcement that doesn’t require lots of updating, tweaking, etc.Ĭounty now has 2 testing sites each doing 250 tests a day thanks to getting supplies from federal government city has an additional site. Which she is not announcing this morning or yet. Judge Hidalgo press conference solo to clarify that term isn’t shelter in place, but something more like stay-at-home. Let us hope it is enough, and soon enough, to flatten the curve so our hospitals are not overwhelmed. Stay home if at all possible, but you can go out for essentials, and you can go outside as long as you stay 6′ apart from other people. A stay home / work safe order will be in effect beginning at 11:59 pm tonight, running through April 3rd. ![]()
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