Citizen Comments for the June 23, 2020 Meeting Agenda (Received After 12 A.M
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Citizen Comments for the June 23, 2020 Meeting Agenda (Received after 12 a.m. through 8 p.m. on June 22, 2020) Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Abby Derby Address: 353 Gathering Oaks Dr Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 1:41:28 AM Please start requiring masks in all indoor public places. We must take more measures to curb the spread of coronavirus and masks are one the more effective, and simple, means, or doing so. See this research study: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009637117 Thank you. Page 1 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Abra Kinch Address: 1216 Hawthorne Street, Tallahassee, FL 32308 Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 10:31:31 AM I would explore the committee, for the safety of those of us living in Tallahassee, to mandate masks/coverings when in enclosed, public settings, and not while seated and eating. Madison Social has an excellent model. This will normalize masks before kids go back to school and students return to the universities. I would also ask that we set guidelines so that enforcement of this issue is equitable. Certain people should not be policed more than others, and a face mask made as excuse to further put law enforcement pressures on certain citizens more than others. With the climate we’re experiencing now, I’m sure you understand my meaning. Page 2 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: ABRAHAM MIDDLETON Address: 611 Short Street Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 9:16:18 AM I'm an advocate for public mask wearing. Listen to the CDC, listen to public health experts: wear a mask and save lives. Page 3 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Adam Bennett Address: 506 Cactus Street, Tallahassee FL 32304 Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 1:34:02 PM My wife and I were just married in April, in our front yard with 5 select guests at a distance, instead of in front of 125 friends and family at the beach. My wife suffers from an autoimmune disorder. Has for the entirety of her adult life. Plus other risk factors, including age. She has zero chance of surviving COVID-19. Zero. She's been working from and staying home for more than three months. I still go to a job where I can separate from my co-workers and public. I wear a mask, wash my hands constantly and fastidiously. I do all I can to keep my wife safe in our home bubble. She has zero chance of survival. I only go out for work, and grocery store runs, and it is getting harder and harder to maintain distancing, not to mention how few masks I see. I can no longer shop at Publix because of how lax they are with their own employees improper wearing of masks, much less other shoppers with no respect for personal, social distancing. Not only is my wife in danger, but this will stretch out indefinitely unless further steps are taken. Please make PROPER mask wearing mandatory, and consider further shutdown measures. Page 4 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Adam Brink Address: 3403 Prock Dr Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 3:17:08 PM Please consider finding ways to enforce social distancing requirements at bars and restaurants, including a return to stricter measures during this substantial increase in cases. Also, please consider that American citizens have limitations on all of their freedoms. Requiring masks in public and implementing aggressive contract tracing would go far in slowing spread of the virus and would do little to impact personal freedoms, especially compared to the alternative of lockdowns. Absent leadership from higher levels of government, the responsibility falls to you. Please think of the long term effects of premature reopening and lackadaisical social distancing on our community and do what is right for our vulnerable populations and health care workers. Thank you. Page 5 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Adam Hyman Address: 8830 Sapphire Drive Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 10:29:05 AM I would like to submit my comment in favor of mandatory masks and social distancing, enforced by law. This is a pandemic. Strong measures are required. We will have to endure this for many more months to come, and the actions taken now (or inactions) will determine the status of this county, state, and nation after this is over. Administrations at all levels of government have historically been much more heavy handed than current when enforcing policies to ensure maximal public health. History shows the formation of "virus squads," which were doctors backed by police whom forced people to comply with medical standards and even forced innoculation once a vaccine was discovered. Obviously, enforcing mask and other pandemic mitigation strategies are much less burdensome for all involved. The foundation for strong action has been set not only by past governing bodies during pandemics and outbreaks of disease, but also by the Supreme Court of the United States itself. In the case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled that vaccines could be made mandatory, and likened a pandemic to a war, where decide action must be taken. So now this need to act has fallen upon you. You must find the resolve to enact strong policies to protect your people- some even from themselves. And yes, there may be some who are enraged, and they will live to resist in one form or another- but they will live. In times such as these, leaders of the people do what is best for their people despite political cost. History has shown- time and time again- that pushing for economic return to normalcy in a pandemic will actually be more harmful to the economy in the long run. So ask yourselves not what Leon County will look like in 6 months- ask what it will look like in 6 years. What will your legacy be? Page 6 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Aimee McDonald Address: 2986 Nutmeg CT Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 10:57:21 AM Please allow the the health of the people to stay in the hands (and faces) of the people. Allow us to self-govern our own health by making our own choices. This is a very slippery slope once you begin mandating what free citizens must wear or put on their bodies. Let us continue to live with dignity without our government over-reaching and stealing control over our freedoms in the name of "our safety.---No to mandatory face masks. Yes to freedom to make our own health conscience decisions. Page 7 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Al Clark Address: 2214 Demeron Road Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 4:38:46 PM I support a mandatory mask requirement. It is the strongest single weapon we have available, practically and legally, until there is a vaccine. Page 8 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Alannah Brown Address: 1903 Raa Ave Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 10:51:02 AM Allow business owners the choice of mask wearing in their establishment. Allow individuals the choice when in public spaces. It's just that simple. Page 9 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Albert Thorburn Address: 6851 Seabiscuit Trail Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 7:30:55 PM Please make masks mandatory in Leon County. Thank you, Albert Thorburn Page 10 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Ale Spratt Address: 3966 Calle de santos Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 6:40:34 PM I live with my parents in Tallahassee and they are both 70+ years old and have health conditions known to be exacerbated by COVID 19. Not requiring masks makes going anywhere far more risky, both for my parents and myself, as I’m having to do all the errands while they’re in quarantine. I don’t want myself or my family to get sick because other people refuse to do the bare minimum to protect themselves and others. We NEED mask requirements to limit the read of the virus, because I promise you, PEOPLE ARE NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING. Please do the right thing. Don’t compromise our safety. Page 11 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Alexa Harkness Address: 217 Myddelton Trace Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 5:16:16 PM If the state of Florida is going to remain open, please just make it a requirement to wear a mask. It's really not that hard. Case numbers are soaring and we need to protect people as much as we can! Thank you. Page 12 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Alexia Chamberlynn Address: 2022 Atapha Nene Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 1:20:39 PM I think masks should definitely be required in public. Protect our people and our economy! All these unnecessary cases at small businesses! Page 13 of 641 Board of County Commissioners, June 23, 2020 Citizen Comments Special Meeting Name: Alexis Alt Address: 26 Trescott St Date Submitted: 6/22/2020 5:40:41 PM Please require masks to be worn to curb the spread of the virus.