Posted on 03/17/2020 10:26:29 AM PDT by horsappl
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Gov. Tim Walz ordered thousands of businesses to close by Tuesday, vastly reshaping life in Minnesota as the state tries to control the spread of coronavirus.
The order shuts down bars and restaurants to dine-in customers by 5 p.m., only allowing them to provide curbside or delivery services. Walz’s executive action also shutters theaters, museums, fitness centers and bowling alleys across the state.
Gov. Walz orders bars and restaurants across Minnesota to close to dine-in customers Tuesday night
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has ordered bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers by 5 p.m. Tuesday and continue indefinitely, a move Walz said was necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.
The governor announced the changes at a Monday evening news conference at the state Capitol, where he said it would lead to the biggest mass layoff in Minnesota history. State health officials said earlier in the day that they were in talks with the governor about how to carry out the plan.
“We need to stop congregating. We’re going to close the bars. We’re going to close the restaurants. We’re going to close the places where we gather,” Walz told reporters. “Understand, the magnitude of what we’re doing is not lost on any of us.”
The order is scheduled to end on March 27, but Walz said it is likely to be extended.
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Executive order closing private businesses. Where does this authority come from?
Minnesota trying hard to be one of the “cool kids.”
Trump has given governors broad ability now to make decisions for their states regarding this virus crisis.
Trump has the authority to delegate control of private industry to governors?
Walz is in a no-lose situation here.
If he’s right and doing this helps slow the possibility of transmission of the virus, he’ll be regarded as a savior of sorts.
If he’s wrong, all he needs to say is “I erred on the side of caution. I erred on the side of the health of the residents of Minnesota”
And lastly, “I erred on the side of the kids”.
No Democrat could ever pass up on an opportunity to say that thy were doing it for the kids. Trust me, he’s no exception to that rule.
From the general population's willingness to accept it.
The book Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs details how government grows with every "crisis". Once the crisis is past, they back off on some of the government over-reach, but never back to pre-crisis levels.
Breaking yesterday.
The good news is that all the laid-off workers will be able to get jobs in all the industries that will have to move back here from China.
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day.
GAELICPHOBIA! I *DEMAND* REPARATIONS!
‘Where does this authority come from?’
from us; because we allow it...
The declaration of a national emergency for a pandemic gives local, state and federal government power to restrict movement, prohibit public assembly, shut travel and public businesses. It is one small step away from martial law. Most people have zero clue how much power these emergency declarations carry all of them have hundreds of years of approvals by the supreme court lawsuits are pointless they have been dealt with years ago. Strap in this is the once in a lifetime experience. Thank God the adults are finally in charge with 30+ year scientific experts deciding what needs to be done and not arm chair epidemiologists. Its better than 50/50 we see martial law declared my money would be on three weeks till martial law declared if the exponential growth phase keeps up by the middle of April we will be out of hospital beds and the army will be making MASH units and enforcement of movement restrictions, and for that you have to have martial law to void posse comitatus.
‘Trump has the authority to delegate control of private industry to governors?’
in a word, yes...because it is in fact happening...
I have been asking this very question. Under what authority can a gov just suspend constitutional rights? I’m fairly certain the answer is they can’t. This fact makes following these edicts very very dangerous to liberty as this is setting precedent. There is principle that indicates if you wave rights or do not assert them you lose them. This greatly concerns me that private citizens are following these orders as if they carry the weight of law. The people should insist these executive orders be clearly branded as suggestions or requests and NOT mandatory enforceable actions.
And no politician will publicly oppose him on it for fear of being branded as putting profits above the people's safety.
Another liberal stronghold toes the line.
No way in the farthest stretch does this BS meet the Constitutional requirements for martial law.
Restaurants and bars... - we have local Drive-In movie and its not opening on schedule, now that hurts!
Iowa is closing restaurants too. Give it a day and the rest of the country will be doing the same. Not a big deal in my opinion. Most restaurants are pretty much closing anyway and moving to curb side and take out.
After the declaration of national emergency these do carry the weight of law. Read up on some history the USA has a long history of forcing private business to do things in time of national needs. we also have a history of taking property during economic crisis. People are rushing to buy gold and silver. They seem to have forgot that more than once in our history gold has confiscated from private holdings and forcibly exchanged for US treasury notes. The Supremes upheld it as well.
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