Posted on 07/11/2020 10:08:35 PM PDT by lightman
Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Friday that goes into effect Monday mandating face masks in public indoor and crowded outdoor spaces. It introduces a misdemeanor charge with a $500 fine for violators who refuse.
“The heroes on the front lines of this crisis have gone hours without taking their masks off every day, doctors, nurses, child care workers, grocery store workers. We owe it to them to wear our masks when we’re on a trip to the grocery store or pharmacy,” Whitmer said in a press release. “For the sake of your loved ones, let’s all mask up.”
Whitmer’s office cited a German study finding that government mask mandates reduced transmission of the Chinese virus by 40 percent.
“Michigan’s fight against COVID-19 is nowhere near over, which is why it’s so important that we all do our part and wear masks when we’re out in public,” Chief Medical Executive and Department of Health and Human Services Chief Deputy for Health Dr. Joneigh Khaldun said in the press release. “Wearing a mask or face covering can significantly decrease the chance of spreading COVID-19 and save lives. It’s important that all Michiganders wear masks properly — not down around the neck, not only over the mouth, but correctly over the mouth and nose.”
Under Whitmer’s new order, businesses must refuse service to those not properly wearing a mask or be subject to harsh penalties, including license revocation. The few exceptions include children under 5 years old and those with medical conditions that prohibit face coverings. It also excepts people eating or drinking at restaurants.
The Michigan Retailers Association criticized the order, however, as “impossible” to enforce based on vague exemptions.
“Determining the validity of an ambiguous exemption is an impossible task for a retailer,” the group said Friday. “And now, even retailers acting in good faith could be subject to severe licensing sanctions based on the actions of non-compliant customers.”
At the height of the lockdowns several months ago, Whitmer became a heroic dictatorial figure on the left for imposing the strictest stay-home orders in the country that barred residential travel in addition to sales of paint and gardening seeds, the latter of which are used in a socially distant manner.
The progressive midwestern governor’s orders prompted several lawsuits and even calls for removal.
Whitmer is now also reportedly on the vice presidential short-list to run with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this fall.
PA Guv Wolf on July 1
NJ Guv Murphy on July 9
The Whitless one goes one step farther than Pennsylvania’s Dickless one by decreeing that masks must be worn “PROPERLY”.
That should make her naughty bits swell.
Freaky witch. She is just trying to make money.
I despise her. I cannot breathe just thinking about wearing a mask in this heat.
Or they’ll hold you down and sew a mask to your face. No mask means you’re an uncaring slob who should be beaten to death by a Democrat mob of scared fanatics.
Make them define mask and medical efficacy...
In a law suit
Doesn't Wretched Whitmer know she has a legislature?
An EO is not a statute. It is not statutory law. She is usurping legislative power.
Crap like this just pushes people to Trump- and will result in midterm losses for liberals
Until President Trump reverses the emergency order these leaders will keep pushing the overbearing measures.
Before or after defunding the police?
How is this enforceable?
Don't you see?
That's the point...make going out so miserable that you'll want to "stay in" and continue to flatten the "curve" ECONOMY and CAMPAIGN and basically hibernate until November?
Hey Gretchen. ESAD.
Follow the money:
A subsidiary of “Community Initiatives”
Funded by:
{{{drumroll}}}
$ørøs and Øbama
Ordinarily, I’d think this would be her political death knell, but even on FR I see masktards trying to convince everyone to be subservient to their masters. I don’t know how this goes. I THINK it will be VERY bad for her by the time November comes around, but there are so many sheep these days, even on our side...I don’t know...
Yes, good little Marxist governor keeping up her street cred....with the DNC and the other Marxists...
Good and nasty!
These Democrat totalitarian tyrants have no limits.
They should be given the King Charles I treatment.
That’s our Gretchen Half-Whitmer. Gotta love her. (By executive order.)
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