As a former mayor and a former board member of a transit agency, I know how critical it is that transit systems can survive the pandemic, but also expand service, and this is a conversation about equity as well.
Strickland emphasizes the importance of transit systems during the pandemic and their role in equity.
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Definitely. We know that hate crimes against Asian-Americans have increased about 150 percent in most cities. And you know, I have friends who tell me stories of standing in line at the grocery store and having people say, you know, you're responsible for this. I have friends who work in healthcare, and they've told me stories of patients not wanting them to touch them because they're afraid to get COVID. And so as I said, on the House floor yesterday, Anderson, words matter, leadership matters and we have to stop using this rhetoric that tragically, I believe, ended in death in Atlanta.
But we know that we have to get the people on the front lines of the vaccine first, health care workers, the people must vulnerable and also people who are going to be in a position where they may be carriers and spread it inadvertently.
I want to take care of those around me and I don't want to expose others to something.
we wish we had a national strategy, but right now, we have to go with the governors.
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