He didn’t impose any fines or penalties.
Also, his order says you can be out if you are doing anything permitted in the previous executive order, and that order was pretty permissive in terms of what businesses were still open.
For example, all the electronics stores are still open, as are department stores if they include food, and convenience stores, and all restaurants can run carry-out, and all health facilities.
Actually, he never even ordered gyms to close, they just had to limit patrons to 10 or less at a time, so most of them closed anyway.
The order DOES mean cops can stop you now, to some degree.
THe order does 3 things I can see:
1. Shuts down beaches, but only to people who are sitting in chairs. You can still fish, or perform “exercise”, which I think would include swimming in the ocean, walking on the beach, probably yoga lying in the sand, and I would think surf boarding. Although there are probably no life guards.
2. Prohibits short-term camping. You can still keep camps open, and people can reserve, but only for 2 weeks or more; fitting into the isolation time for the virus. I suspect this is to keep out-of-staters from renting weekend campsites and infecting locals.
3. Shuts down liberty university — prohibits all in-person classes, and I think Liberty was the only college doing that.
We are debating at work whether we need “papers” to prove we are essential employees, we’ll probably find out tomorrow.
My brother-in-law just lost his job at the gun range, which just opened and was forced to close.
Respectfully, he did. The order specifies a Class 1 misdemeanor. From the Virginia Code:
§ 18.2-11. Punishment for conviction of misdemeanor.
The authorized punishments for conviction of a misdemeanor are:
(a) For Class 1 misdemeanors, confinement in jail for not more than twelve months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both.