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.
I don’t know how people are standing this mask BS with the heat and humidity, I am going crazy and I am in CA. I have had ENOUGH of this mask BS!! God there is NOWHERE to go anymore without a mask mandate!!
Wake up and recall
I am totally on board with you on this, I am frankly STUNNED at the people on this site readily giving up their freedoms!!
It’s all about control.
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?
Back in in April to May Michigan was averaging well over 100 deaths a day. For weeks. Almost all in the Detroit region.
Now it’s down to 10 a day or less.
Why would she order this now and not three months ago?
Now it’s down to 10 a day or less.
Why would she order this now and not three months ago?
Simple.
The sheeple must be kept in a state of fear and panic until November 4.
Wearing a masks puts fear before your face many x/day.
Because it s NOT about the virus it is about control, how far can they move the goal posts before we erupt!!
I have a medical condition that releases me from any mask requirement. Due to medical privacy laws, I am not required to tell you anything more.
I saw masks for sale with F_ You written all over it.
We don't fear you!
We don't fear the WU-FLU!
Don’t want to (because way too hot there), but may have to join the South.
They may be the only even half sane Americans left !
People must wear their underwear over their heads.
It is shocking...I see it all over, so it’s not just here. People who are normally with us are flipping to the authoritarian side. It’s crazy and scary!
Shocked she is not calling for summary execution of mask scofflaws..............
tictoc... and a black man will be killed over this... and racism will be blamed, not liberal police state legislative madness...
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