I’m 23 and a youth vote organizer with NextGen Maine. I’m preventing for extra progressive, fact-based governance as a result of my era now faces not one, however two existential threats: local weather change and the coronavirus pandemic. In a time after we must be listening to medical doctors and scientists greater than ever, it typically feels as if scary or inconvenient details are swept beneath the rug for financial and political causes.
The fossil gasoline business is a number one contributor to local weather change, but it surely has efficiently lobbied in opposition to rules that may shield us from its worst results. The specter of COVID-19 stays excessive, however firms need us to prematurely raise social distancing tips to allow them to begin getting cash once more.
Many state governments have carried out the correct factor and enforced stay-at-home orders to maintain their folks protected, flattening the curve and decreasing the general impression of the illness. President Trump, nonetheless, has frozen funding to the World Well being Group, urged People inject bleach to battle the virus and pushed to reopen the nation earlier than offering sufficient testing to make it protected. We want our authorities to respect science and never take pointless dangers simply in order that corporations can drive their staff to return to work in unsafe situations.
It’s necessary that we’ve got a authorities that respects science and medication, as a result of that’s the one means our authorities will have the ability to preserve the nation protected for years to come back within the face of pandemics and local weather change.
Keanna Daniels
Presque Isle
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