The letter was to governments, not volunteers. They should have had all this stuff worked out long ago. It's the downside of political patronage. They put "connected" people in key places instead of "competent" people.

JOhn


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>>This is what happens when the incompetent lead the unwilling! The more I work for the government, the less I like it.
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>I've bolded two things that I find incredible. First, that anyone can be a volunteer and yet expect to be compensated. If I'm volunteering something (be it my time, money, blood, labor force), I don't expect any reimbursement, specially not to be paid - or otherwise I'd be selling what nobody asked for.
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>The more preposterous thing is this liability matter. I once said that if anything will put an end to American way of life, it will be litigation and fear thereof. Now I see it's actually dangerous to American lives per se.