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Posted on 08/31/2020 10:01:30 AM PDT by lightman
Gov. Tom Wolf Tuesday presented a fall legislative agenda that included a push for legalizing marijuana for recreational use by adults. Harrisburg, PA – August 25, 2020Commonwealth Media Services By Greg Pickel | gpickel@pennlive.com
A successful return to both K-12 schools and colleges could lead to an easing of the targeted bar and restaurant restrictions in Pennsylvania.
Gov. Tom Wolf said as much on Monday, more than a month after he and Health Department Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine signed orders that limit indoor and outdoor occupancy, forbid bar service, and require prepared food to be purchased if a customer wants to also consume alcohol on the property because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think our focus right now ought to be on getting our kids, and older students in higher education, back to school and back into a learning mode,” Wolf said, “And anything we do to take our eyes off that is going to be a problem.
“I think one of the things I’m going to be looking for is, how are we doing in back to school? This is the week, [and] next week, where the schools, most colleges are already back, and I think the next couple of weeks will tell the tale.”
More: Pa. targeted mitigation order FAQs: What counts as a meal at a bar? How it applies to weddings, schools, more
Bars and restaurant owners and industry associations have been clamoring for changes ever since Wolf reduced indoor capacity from 50 percent to 25 percent along with the other restrictions. For some time, though, it has been clear that they would be changed only if schools successfully returned to in-person instruction.
“If we see real progress in terms of the two things that I’m looking at, the case count per 100,000 and the [percent] positivity rate; that seems to be steady right now,” Wolf said.
“If that continues like that, that would be a good sign because I recognize we got to get back to, to a point where we live a life that is a lot more normal than the one we live in right now.”
At least he recognizes that this--like his health secretary--is ABNORMAL.
But....
Is Wolf crying "wolf"?
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After he and his wife got caught eating in a INDOOR Maryland restaurant !
On Camera!
translation: Anything he asks of the legislature is DOA otherwise.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3879436/posts
That was Philly Mayor Jim Kenney.
But the statewide clampdown on bars and restaurants was inspired and pioneered by Philly’s and Allegheny County’s.
wolf man
Children make good Guinea Pigs and Canaries in the Coal Mine.
If it’s “for the children” why isn’t it for their parents, unemployed in the hospitality industry who are running out of money to keep “the children” fed, clothed, and housed?
Interpretation: The state will be shut down until November 4 unless the election is close. Then it will be shut down until enough Biden mail-in votes can be 'found' to get him over the top.
The dude simply recognizes that he has no credibility to open schools as long as he’s also pretending that restaurants are risks for COVID-19 transmission.
“ After he and his wife got caught eating in a INDOOR Maryland restaurant !
On Camera!”
Pennsylvania Governor Wolf is a leftist scumbag without any ethics except situational ethics.
That's precisely NOT what is happening in our local (Philadelphia) school districts. High School age students are fully remote learning while Elementary age are 2/5 in class and the rest at home. That'll keep the economy shut down regardless what they do with restaurants. 1 parent is going to have to work from home most of the week if not all of it -- or go unemployed.
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