Posted on 05/07/2020 7:31:14 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
TRENTON, NJ – Governor Phil Murphy today apparently saw his shadow today, which means the New Jersey COVID-19 lockdown will continue for at least another 30 days with no clear plan for residents or small business owners who will remain out of work during that time.
“I’m signing an EO to extend our public health emergency by 30 days,” Murphy said today. “To be clear: this does not mean we’re seeing anything in the data which would pause our path forward. These declarations, unless extended, expire after 30 days. We’re still in a public health emergency. If this extension signals one thing, it is this – we can’t give up one bit on the one thing that we know is working in this fight: social distancing. Remember, in the absence of a vaccine, or even proven therapeutics for #COVID19, our only cure is social distancing.”
So that means, for many, 30 more days without a paycheck, 30 more days without unemployment. For businesses, it means 30 more days without cashflow and 30 more days to pretend they might see some of the economic stimulus money before the end of 2020. “This will be disastrous for every small business in our State. We must allow for safely reopening segments of our economy. Yes, this virus is serious. Yes, people have gotten very ill and some have died including people I know personally. Unfortunately a large majority of those who have died in Bergen County were our most vulnerable residents in our Veterans homes and Long Term Care Facilities,” said New Jersey Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi.
“The Governor continues to hold daily press conferences but they are very repetitive,” said NJ Republican leader John Bramnick. “It is important that this Governor discuss the details on how to reopen, while we all understand that the process must be carefully done. We all also understand that this is a serious virus and residents are mature enough to act cautiously during a careful reopening. The public needs to hear the details of the plans. Other States have addressed these issues.”
Comrade Murphy or king Murphy equally are applicable
Anything we can do to destroy the businesses in this State will be done in spades!!!@
Sieg Heil
“To be clear: this does not mean we’re seeing anything in the data which would pause our path forward.”
In other words: “we have no idea what we’re doing”
“So that means, for many, 30 more days without a paycheck, 30 more days without unemployment.”
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Why wouldn’t they be getting unemployment?
Comrade Phil’s next home needs to be in Rahway.
Because the government agency that manages the disbursement of funds is so woefully inept and unprepared some folks that applied over 2 months ago have yet to see a nickel.
49% of NJ Covid deaths are in Long Term Care. There are 23,345 Covid cases in LTC (NJ.gov Covid LTC dashboard)
How about a NursingHomegate investigation in NY and NJ?
Governor Murphy: Just how is that SOCIAL DISTANCING CURE working out for our NJ vets, developmentally and chronically vulnerable long term care patients as they are isolated from their families?
All government agencies in New Jersey are inept. I lived in that dump for my first 33 years. That is where I made the saying “To err is human, it takes a government bureaucracy to make a real fustercluck”.
For starters, the states unemployment system is backlogged and broken. Almost nobody has received one. But the morons in this state seem to be very happy with Phil Stalin. I despise living here and cannot wait to retire and move.
I see what you did there!
I did my first 19.
I still live in the N.J. dump. I like your saying. You may want to view my video on you tube that I made 12 years ago. Just enter “Screw The State Of New Jersey” and view my masterpiece about the political situation at the time.
And that's just the more recent list of high-profile scum that we've had representing us at various levels. Just pitiful.
The prison is really in Avenel. But then...
Old Uncle Floyd about Thomas Woodbridge
Don’t you mean Thomas Edison?
Edison, Woodbridge, what’s the difference.
I think you replied to the wrong person.
Carteret boy here.
Pandemic Phil . .
A friend is calling it PLandemic, since this is all planned out by libs.
I did. Sorry, Boogieman. :-)
Thanks to those who explained the unemployment situation in New Jersey. I had NO IDEA the government was being THAT inept. How can they forcibly put people out of work and then NOT effectively give them unemployment so they can continue to pay their rent and buy food... and then expect that a $1,200 “stimulus check” is really going to do the trick (particularly in a VERY expensive state like New Jersey).
Wow. What a massive failure of government.
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