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Basic Information Democratic Party – running for Montgomery County Council District 4 Email zittrauerj@gmail.comWebsite friendsofjohnzittrauer.comFacebook facebook.com/friendsofjohnzittrauerTwitter twitter.com/johnzittrauerOther instagram.com/johnzittrauer Questions & Responses (All Candidates) 1 – What lessons learned do you have since the start of the pandemic? a) When we care about public health, we have the power to remove the profit motive from medicineContinue Reading

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Basic information Democratic Party – running for Montgomery County Council District 7 Email: schwartzpaul02@gmail.comWebsite: www.paulkschwartz.comFacebook: facebook.com/paul.schwartz.79025Twitter: @PKSpaul Questions & Responses (all candidates) 1 – What lessons learned do you have since the start of the pandemic? It was made abundantly clear that we were totally unprepared to provide a quality virtual option forContinue Reading

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Cases and Hospitalizations with Vaccination Status Here is the full chart and then we’ll break it down with analysis piece by piece. Data is from 7/19/2021 to 8/15/2021. I would love to see this publicly available and updated regularly for everyone to see – it is the most important informationContinue Reading

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County Executive Marc Elrich posted a few images on Twitter of his attendance of an event kicking off National Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month on Saturday, March 3, 2021. Mask-less Marc Normally, this is where the story would stop. However, Marc Elrich is not wearing a mask andContinue Reading

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Update to previous article on this subject: https://moderatelymoco.com/mcps-football-season-sacked-by-county-in-surprise-reversal-despite-decreasing-covid-rates/. Title Photo Credit: Julie Anderson Notes on Safety of Football To start, MCPS Coaches are voluntary positions. Most are also MCPS staff and have more likely than not been offered the opportunity for a vaccine. In late January 2021, the National FederationContinue Reading

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UPDATE: Rally planned for Sunday 3/14 for MCPS Football, Cheer, & POMS. Details on flyer further down. Experts such as Harvard Professor Joseph G. Allen (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/08/dont-let-covid-19-keep-kids-playing-sports/) and many others have stressed the importance of sports, especially outdoors, and especially for kids. Many other local school systems have already had outdoorContinue Reading

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UPDATE: After writing this I realized that there was an issue with my methodology. The percent difference was not normalized based on the average. I fixed the calculations and came up with a new chart which I added extra details Updated Analysis Montgomery County looks even better in this chartContinue Reading

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As of 11:50pm on Wednesday night, the Montgomery County EMS Jurisdictional system has issued a Blue alert. This means that the county hospital systems are temporarily taxed beyond their limits. Additionally, several individual local hospitals were in Red or Yellow alert. We track these, a few red of yellows areContinue Reading