I ask members of the committee to consider this: If there's a worldwide pandemic, who do you want beside you? The answer is, uniformly, your family.
Imagine the moments lost. How many miscarriages were taken alone? How many deaths were felt by oneself? How many tragedies were faced without the support of loved ones?
We understand that this level of pain needed to be worked out, but now that we are here and we are preparing for the second wave, we must not allow the mistakes that happened earlier in the year to create further family separations as we approach the second wave.