Virginia HR 237: COVID-19 pandemic; condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the pandemic.

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HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 237 

Offered January 15, 2021 

Expressing the sense of the House of Delegates in condemning 
 the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic. 
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Patrons-- Miyares and Freitas 

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Referred to Committee on Rules 

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WHEREAS, the COVID-19 virus emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, 
 where the virus spread rapidly through the community and, within weeks of the 
 first reports of the virus reaching the United States, through the entire 
 world; by March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 
 outbreak a pandemic; and

WHEREAS, as the governing party of the People's Republic of 
 China, the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the well-being of its 
 citizens; as one of the largest political powers in the world, the Chinese 
 Communist Party's actions are of global consequence; and

WHEREAS, the severity of the COVID-19 virus became quickly 
 apparent to the medical workers who witnessed it firsthand in the earliest 
 stages of the outbreak, but under the power of the Chinese Communist Party, an 
 atmosphere of fear and secrecy caused the truth of the severity of the crisis 
 to be suppressed until the outbreak was too large to contain; and

WHEREAS, it is believed that the numbers of infections and 
 deaths from the COVID-19 virus in China were underreported, and information concerning 
 the virus was concealed by the Chinese Communist Party, leaving other nations 
 unprepared to deal with the crisis; and

WHEREAS, the pandemic has taken a direct toll on the citizens 
 of Virginia; the effects of the loss of life due to the pandemic are 
 incalculable, and the far-reaching consequences of the widespread loss of 
 livelihood that occurred in the economic downturn of 2020 will take years to 
 recover from; and

WHEREAS, according to the 2020 State of the Commonwealth 
 Report from Old Dominion University's Strome College of Business, prior to the 
 pandemic, Virginia had experienced 11 consecutive quarters of economic growth 
 and, between February 2010 and February 2020, had added 502,000 jobs; April 
 2020 saw the furloughing or loss of 438,000 jobs, and while nearly half of 
 those jobs were recovered by the end of 2020, hundreds of thousands of 
 Virginians remain unemployed as a direct result of the pandemic, and job growth 
 remains slow; and

WHEREAS, the report found that existing economic disparities 
 were exacerbated, and the pandemic's toll on Black and Hispanic communities was 
 disproportionately large, as those communities experienced higher death rates, 
 higher job losses, and a greater toll on mental health due to increased rates 
 of anxiety and depression; and

WHEREAS, the effects of the continued disruption of education 
 may