Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), who during the COVID-19 pandemic implemented stringent prohibitions on public gatherings and stay-at-home directives, will be joining the U.S. Surgeon General for a discussion on the danger that “loneliness and isolation” pose to public health.
The panel discussion, entitled “Building Resilience Through Human Connection,” is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 27, at 11 a.m., and will be hosted by the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
Speaking on the panel, which is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis, will be Gov. Mills, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, and Maine DHHS Office of Behavioral Health Director Sarah Squirrell.
The discussion is set to focus on a Surgeon General Advisory issued by Dr. Murthy last year, which describes a growing “epidemic of loneliness and isolation” in the U.S. as a serious public crisis on par with smoking, obesity and substance use disorder.
Included in Dr. Murthy’s advisory is the recognition that government lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the issue of loneliness and social isolation among Americans.
“While social connection had been declining for decades prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the onset of the pandemic, with its lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, was a critical time during which the issue of connection came to the forefront of public consciousness, raising awareness about this critical and ongoing public health concern,” the advisory states.
Such lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were issued by Gov. Mills in early 2020 as a response to the pandemic:
- March 15, 2020: Gov. Mills declared a Civil State of Emergency, recommending ending all in-classroom instruction for all Maine public schools, postponing all non-urgent medical procedures and appointments, restricting visitors to long-term care facilities, and postponing all events with 50 or more people.
- March 16, 2020: Gov. Mills called for the statewide cancellation of Saint Patrick’s events to prevent the gathering of large crowds and further encouraged social distancing measures.
- March 24, 2020: Gov. Mills ordered all non-essential businesses and operations in Maine to close their physical locations that are public facing, meaning those that allow customer, vendor or other in-person contact.
- March 31, 2020: Gov. Mills issued a Stay Healthy at Home directive that required people living in Maine to stay at home at all times unless for an essential job or an essential personal reason, such as obtaining food, medicine, health care, or other necessary purposes.
- April 3, 2020: Gov. Mills issued an Executive Order mandating a 14-day quarantine for travelers arriving in Maine, regardless of their state of residency.
A full timeline of the Mills administration’s pandemic actions can be read here.
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She should be thinking about the grass growers. She can not handle them, she will not be able the next shut down
It’s rich coming from the governor who tried to make everyone stay home during the 2020 flu season .
More disinformation from “ Gaslight Janet “ .
Let’s plan to take back more of the Maine House of “ Representatives “ in November .
Vote Republican this time , see how much better YOUR life can be .
ITS TIME to get rid of these socialist democrats .
Vote !
Jesus people, next time vote for something more pleasant to look at 🤢🤮.
Janet is the Poster Child for doing copious amounts of Cocaine in ones youth . Now she is just a proto typical drunken Hag
Liberals really have no sense of irony.
LOL
dumb and dumber together again. Discussing the misery they created with the lockdowns.
To date, we’ve had approximately 3,400 alleged COVID-19 deaths in Maine. Many of these poor souls died in hospitals without being able to see their loved ones thanks to Mills and her CDC lackey, “Nimrod” Shah. It wasn’t the “virus” that killed 95+% of them but it was the CDC guidelines of being treated with Remdesivir and intubated WITHOUT permission after being denied early treatment with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. No money in that!
Then, the hospitals were paid bonus money for these treatments and for listing the cause of death as COVID-19 on the decedents’ death certificates. That’s the true state of our medical industry. Don’t follow the real science; follow the Big Pharma / government money.
Will anyone ask Mills or the panelists about this type of loneliness and isolation that our own government agencies and political hacks orchestrated? Highly doubtful.
The consequences of this administration gonna be felt for decades, it will brand a generation with a burn scar
this is comically!!! the person who did the most damage Mills the communist is going to lecture people on this?!?! Mainers have you woken up yet or are you just so clueless you will keep repeating the same mistakes over and over.
Two tyrannical overlords. Murphy and Millstone. I’d love to get ahold of their cellphone data for the last 4 years.
I hope they understand many want to live quiet private lives .
We need the state legislature to pass a bill limiting the governor’s ability to call a civil state of emergency in the future. Our kids are still suffering the effects of her mandates and lockdowns! How do I know this? I had 5 high school students hanging out at my house during 2020 and 2021. They should have graduated in 2024. None of them did.