Andrew Phelps

Everyone who, who doesn't have what they need to go back to school, or to go back to work, or to go to the grocery store, is putting themselves, I think, at a greater risk to contract Covid or to spread Covid around the community, we also know that Covid disproportionately impacts minorities here in Oregon. And when you've got folks that are already disproportionately impacted by things like unemployment, and now by Covid, it really becomes an issue of additional lives lost.

They've really chosen to pull out some of the tools that we ordinarily would have as emergency protective measures in our toolbox, it's a really uncomfortable position for states to be in to have to weigh' Gosh, you know, with our budgets, where do we spend the finite amount of state dollars that we have ?'.