Mar
24
Stay at Home Order: What You Need to Know
- No more public gatherings – things like basketball games, gatherings on the beach, even weddings, funerals. Emphasized minimizing social and physical interactions.
- If going outside, it should be for “essential activities” like the grocery store, doctor’s office. Clarified that you can still do a walk, ride your bike, garden at home, etc. – things that are essential for your own health.
- Orders all non-essential businesses to close. Businesses that will remain open have to fulfill “essential” function that is modeled after federal guidelines. Emergency services; health care; child care; critical manufacturing; grocery stores; food and agriculture; critical local governments; courts; news media. Even those businesses remaining open must practice and implement social distancing rules.
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- Restaurants can still do takeout as long as practice social distancing.
- Urges people to comply voluntarily – but also stressed will be enforceable by law.
- This is our best tool to hit back at the coronavirus and this ensures we can hit it hard.
- Noted current data of more than 2,000 people have contracted coronavirus and over 100 have died.
- Indicated this brings more family hardships and economic hardships – his office is continuing to search for ways to further mitigate the economic harm.
- Emphasized we WILL get through this – there will be weddings, factories will fire back up, people will be able to celebrate the end of this at a favorite hangout.
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