Public Input_Uzel, Paul public input re virus masks etc 8/3/20
Kevin Firnstahl
From:Paul Uzel <uzeldansen@gmail.com>
Sent:Saturday, August 1, 2020 8:35 AM
To:CtyClerk
Subject:Public Input for Aug. 3, 2020 City Council meeting re: Mask Mandate
Friends,
Until COVID-19, my top three
priority issues were the Nov.
Presidential elections, returning our
county to a true democracy from a
pseudo-democratic corporate
oligarchy and the environment.
Since then, the Maskup Mandate
necessary to control the virus until a
vaccine(s) can eliminate it and the
Black Lives Matter have been
layered on top of those three. The
BLM will move down among the
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second and third and stay there as
probably number three. All these
are ranked by necessity. Until COVID
is eliminated, the Maskup Mandate
stays primary as not being alive
makes it difficult to address the
others (and they are ranked in
similar fashion.)
Since the virtual abdication of the
Federal government and the
misdirected address of the State
government (choosing controlling
the populous through any means \[in
particular school mandates\] that will
NOT risk an immediate outcry from
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the far right \[and school mandates
encourage the far right\]), it becomes
incumbent upon cities and counties
to take charge as best as possible.
You have all received my
communications of this past week
and I thank Council members
Rousell and Jones for their response
and lively give-and-take. But I want
the Maskup Mandate put on the
City's top priority agenda and
enacted before another infection
happens (which would mean tonight
given that Dubuque is continuing to
increase its 'stature' among the
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most notoriously COVID unsafe
parts of the State.) We need a mask
mandate and we need it NOW, not
after days, weeks and months of
study and increased infections,
hospitalizations and deaths.
But the center of THIS message is to
take courage and "get into good
trouble" as John Lewis said. No finer
trouble could be entered into by a
City Council at this date and time in
history. There can't be a much more
basic purpose for city government
than "Protecting the health and
safety of The People" and COVID is a
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life-threatening issue, not just
something that will 'mysterious
vanish'. And in the meantime
WITHOUT COUNCIL MANDATE for
masks, infections will increase as will
deaths and hospitalizations. This
cartoonchart illustrates the choices:
The courage is needed to face the
far Right (for some reason this has
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become and Left/Right issue, which
is sad at the least) whose personal
freedom is more important than
public safety (but that's why we
have DUI laws, to prioritize public
safety) and the government
hierarchies above the city level that
would usurp the local control while
preaching the necessity for smaller
government, local control and while
failing at those levels to "do what
needs doing."
Maskup Mandates have PROVEN
like no other way to be effective. IF
you take this action, it is CERTAIN
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that in two weeks to a month
Dubuque will be a COVID safer place
to be. If you DO NOT, the waves of
college students ARE coming to
Loras, Clark, UD, NICC and other
post-secondary institutions AND our
primary and secondary education
institutions will be doing more
mingling, while businesses will STILL
have to choose without the support
of a law greater than 'trespass' to
require masks or not.
Do the correct thing. Take Courage...
risk the 'good trouble'. Pass a
Maskup Mandate.
Peace,
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Paul
"The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord look kindly on you, and grant you Peace."
Paul
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