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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Signs Sweeping Mask Order Threatening Violators With $500 Fine
The Federalist ^ | July 10 A.D. 2020 | Tristan Justice

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Delaware; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: biden; clowncar; delaware; gretchenwhitmer; joebiden; joneighkhaldun; marks; masks; michigan; tristanjustice; tyranny; whitler; whitless; whitmer
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To: headstamp 2

lol

unless you are a protester-then its ok


61 posted on 07/12/2020 1:21:40 AM PDT by TECTopcat (e)
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To: dragnet2

‘No mask means you’re an uncaring slob who should be beaten to death by a Democrat mob of scared fanatics’

there are several on this forum, one extreme lunatic in particular, who make that statement and actually believe it...


62 posted on 07/12/2020 1:57:27 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Vendome

If more people act like me and go online pretty soon retailers will see they are at a disadvantage to e-tailers and maybe they will talk some sense into givenors, county and city

Trouble is that these Dem governors see business owners as the enemy, probably Trump supporters, and they want to punish them to destroy the economy.


63 posted on 07/12/2020 1:57:47 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: C210N

“An EO is not a statute. It is not statutory law.”

Exactly. And it’s surprising that so many FReepers believe it IS law. One guy even “screamed”: “IT’S THE LAW!” I assumed that we all were smarter on this forum.

No; it isn’t the law — until a legislature passes a law.


64 posted on 07/12/2020 2:07:33 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Bob434

‘Crap like this just pushes people to Trump- and will result in midterm losses for liberals’

nope; about a third of the populace at large consider this crap excessive and a usurpation of constitutional rights; the rest of society is all in with forcing masks on people, and hate the third that doesn’t...the people have been successfully divided, and turned against each other; and the pressure will be turned up even more in the next three months...look for a campaign of hatred to be waged against non maskers, using all forms of mass media to convey the charge of treason, in the form of malicious indifference to the public welfare...

btw, watch to see if Trump capitulates and starts masking in public, regardless of the knowledge he is virus free; if he does, he (and we) have lost...


65 posted on 07/12/2020 2:11:26 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“there is NOWHERE to go anymore without a mask mandate!!”

So far, eastern TN has been relatively free of this BS. Some places have their policies (Costco and healthcare facilities). Other than that, some wear masks and some don’t, and I don’t hear about “shaming”. Live and let live.


66 posted on 07/12/2020 2:13:13 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: EVO X

There are tutorials online showing how to turn a bra into two masks.


67 posted on 07/12/2020 2:14:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: The Free Engineer

‘It will end in November only if Trump wins.’

really, how so...? has Trump not been president throughout the entirety of this nonsense, and done nothing to end it? why would it end if he continues to be president?

it will actually end if Biden wins, and the dems realize they have to get the economy going so as not to shackle him right from the get go...


68 posted on 07/12/2020 2:18:35 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Vendome

” until this mask horsehit ends.”

I”m impressed by your optimism. In a way, I doubt if it will end. America will look like China with every citizen being a masked drone. WuFlu deaths are way down; mask requirements are becoming more extreme.

I never dreamed America would come to this; it’s sickening.


69 posted on 07/12/2020 2:21:16 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: IrishBrigade

“watch to see if Trump capitulates and starts masking in public, regardless of the knowledge he is virus free; if he does, he (and we) have lost...”

That ship sailed yesterday. Trump in a mask. We have lost.


70 posted on 07/12/2020 2:22:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Vendome

‘As for food, been ordering online and actually feel pretty good about not looking at a bunch of ghouls looking like they came out of the operating room or morgue’

apt description of a shopping experience today; and i think it will be an apt description when we ring in 2021 in January, as we get set to watch the college bowl games-—from previous years...


71 posted on 07/12/2020 2:24:36 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: FrdmLvr

I think they are counting on public pressure from the liberal sky is falling Karens to enforce it. And it’s working.


72 posted on 07/12/2020 2:28:47 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (The days of the mealy-mouthed Republican pussy boys are over. Go away, Mitt, Jeb, Karl, etc)
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To: MayflowerMadam

‘That ship sailed yesterday. Trump in a mask. We have lost.’

well, then, there we have it...look for the maskers to be that much more emboldened; I don’t know if it would ever come to this, but non wearers will be so outnumbered that they will be assaulted, even outdoors, and possibly treated as collaborators were treated during the WWII...

at least we won’t have to worry about shaved heads, what with social distancing and all...


73 posted on 07/12/2020 2:32:18 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: MayflowerMadam

CDC has instructions on how to make various cloth masks. I gave them a try when Illinois mandated masks for stores. This was before cloth masks were for readily for sale. I got a hold of a rare surgical mask and have been using them ever since for brief shopping trips.


74 posted on 07/12/2020 2:34:53 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: JustaCowgirl

‘I think they are counting on public pressure from the liberal sky is falling Karens to enforce it. And it’s working.’

exactly; moral suasion...’hearts and minds’ and all that sort of thing, it is always the first big step in the direction of massive social upheaval...

which we are about to experience in the next few months; remarkable, really, how fast we as a society allowed it...


75 posted on 07/12/2020 2:36:48 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: lightman

Never thought I’d see the day when a $12-an-hour Walmart cashier was hailed as a “hero.” SMDH.


76 posted on 07/12/2020 2:45:33 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: Fungi

NO GOVERNOR CAN ORDER YOU TO WEAR A MASK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9xn_00eCQ


77 posted on 07/12/2020 2:47:15 AM PDT by afchief
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Not a law passed by both houses of the states legislature then signed into law by the governor. The police are not authorized to enforce such an order, the courts have zero jurisdiction (since its not law) to impose the fine upon a citizen.

Lawyer up


78 posted on 07/12/2020 2:55:55 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: lightman

Paraphrasing Rebel Son’s “Drinkin’ with Robert E. Lee” - You can All kiss my a$$ and go to Hell.


79 posted on 07/12/2020 3:07:39 AM PDT by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: ifinnegan

Wearing a facemask 4 months into this pandemic is like wearing condoms at the baby shower.

CC


80 posted on 07/12/2020 3:15:30 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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