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.
‘Do something.’
well, apparently he did; he wore a mask in public...most likely now half this forum will become avid mask wearers...
I’m thinking of making one out of snow fence or something equally ridiculous.
‘I am anti-mask but I will give him a pass this time’
why...? if anyone in the world is known to be virus free, it is the POTUS; before this crapola healthy people walked through hospitals mask free all the time...
besides, in a related thread, I learned that Trump has masked on other occasions, not in a hospital, but has not been photographed...this was news to me, and tells me quite a bit...
and the GOP-e continues to do nothing.
They have now told the RATS that they can do ANYTHING and get away with it.
G_d help us if Biden gets in.
Perhaps the democrats will not want to waste money on masks for the Gulage, that’s the o ly way masks will go away if Biden wins.
She cannot just make up fines. That, too, is unconstitutional.
By any rational definition, the “emergency” is over in Michigan, certainly here in NY, even NYC. Executive Orders are no longer legitimate
- California has BANNED SINGING in churches.’
same here in PA; if anything illustrates how stupid this mask thing is, this does...supposedly we can’t sing because of the distance the ejecta travels in the air, maliciously waiting to infect someone; but, we wear masks so as to prevent said ejecta...
so why can’t we sing, if we are wearing protection against the thing that makes singing dangerous...? is is possible they are admitting masks don’t work...?
Yes, and keep an eye on Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum in the upcoming week.
Ok Michiganders, the time has come.... To put it in dinosaur terms, the governor’s a tyranasaurus.... it’s what it is... the worst offenders are the GOP controlled legislature that not only allows this to continue, but because of their inaction, approves of her actions. August is almost here.... Primary them all.... The whole stinkin lot..... Replace the old guard with brand new young ones.... I am pissed, you should be too
It was Walter Reed. Trump knows that the masks are a sham, but did not want to panic the staff.
The only other time that he wore a mask was on a portion of a factory tour that required masks.
That’s right. And the idiot California Republican party could help with that.
‘Trump knows that the masks are a sham’
yeah, well, I was just at a supermarket, and had a mask on under my nose...I was approached by a manager, who told me someone complained; I blew my lid, and got a bunch of prissy females panties in a wad, and they’re giving me the stink eye and muttering about being Christian and all that...
all because people are so f%^$ing stupid as to believe that normal respiration out of my damn nostrils is going to kill someone’s grandma...this is about nothing but goddam control, and Trump going along with it helps not at all...
“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.”
This statement is an attack on reason.
Mask’s have zero efficacy against the virus
‘Mask’s have zero efficacy against the virus’
tell that to grocery store managers and the scared sheeple who rat on you, like just happened to me...
What type of fabric? I get free ones fromOhio because I work there. Those are made from a heavier cotton/knit.
Still too heavy to breathe well.
I wasn't aware - thanks. Another tragedy to our Constitution. Paging Bill Barr and his gang of do-nothing "investigators."
Trump wore the slave mask muzzle?
Wonderful.
I have been blessed. My county has not gone full Nazi. Went to the grocery store the other day and out of 150 or so people, only 3 of us were not wearing masks. Nobody confronted me. But I am sure that many disapproved.
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