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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf To Order Statewide Shutdown Over Coronavirus
WPSU ^ | March 16, 2020 | ANGELA COULOUMBIS & SPOTLIGHT PA

Posted on 03/16/2020 11:02:23 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday will order a statewide shutdown as the number of coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania continues to grow, according to three sources familiar with the decision.

Wolf and other state officials will release more details to the public at 2 p.m.

The governor had previously placed four counties — Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery — under a shutdown order. That involved asking non-essential businesses like gyms, hair salons, and concert venues to close for 14 days. Wolf said pharmacies, grocery stores, and gas stations should stay open.

Residents there were urged to curtail any non-essential travel.

On Sunday, Wolf also ordered restaurants in those four counties as well as Allegheny County to close their dine-in facilities for two weeks. He said carry-out and delivery service could continue

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.wpsu.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; chinavirusus; coronavirus; paping; tomwolf
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1 posted on 03/16/2020 11:02:23 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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Wolf said pharmacies, grocery stores, and gas stations should stay open.

What if they don't stay open, what then, martial law?

2 posted on 03/16/2020 11:03:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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That involved asking non-essential businesses

Is he "asking" or "telling"?
3 posted on 03/16/2020 11:04:27 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: ConservativeInPA

They are making it easier for Trump to impose martial law which he will do soon.


4 posted on 03/16/2020 11:05:10 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Wolf just had a presser after I posted. So, he did it


5 posted on 03/16/2020 11:05:31 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: DarthVader
They are making it easier for Trump to impose martial law which he will do soon.

Time to buy more ammo, they'll close those stores soon too.

6 posted on 03/16/2020 11:06:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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hair salons? gyms? it’s not like they don’t have a shortage of pudgy floppy haired folk as is.


7 posted on 03/16/2020 11:06:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

How many families will be caused to file bankruptcy? Lose their homes, jobs? Oh, but you better believe that taxes due must and will be paid or we’ll foreclose on your non-existing home.


8 posted on 03/16/2020 11:06:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Wolf said pharmacies, grocery stores, and gas stations should stay open.

So, they’re going to funnel a number of people into a few places? Hmmm...

9 posted on 03/16/2020 11:06:54 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 1Old Pro

I have been well prepared for years. No worries for me.


10 posted on 03/16/2020 11:07:30 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ConservativeInPA

No cash allowed to pay tolls on PA Turnpike.


11 posted on 03/16/2020 11:07:34 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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That involved asking non-essential businesses like gyms, hair salons, and concert venues to close for 14 days.

How many people pay their rent, buy food and essentials in their life working in these so called non-essential businesses?

He is another fricking elite idiot harming innocent people with his arrogance.


12 posted on 03/16/2020 11:10:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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Have people lost their minds? There are 63 known cases in Pennsylvania, from a population of thirteen million!


13 posted on 03/16/2020 11:13:59 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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He is another fricking elite idiot harming innocent people with his arrogance.

All to save his one political ass.

14 posted on 03/16/2020 11:14:45 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Grampa Dave

What is essential to a citizen is not essential to Big Brother. Government rarely knows what it is like in the real world. That’s why government programs don’t work.


15 posted on 03/16/2020 11:15:56 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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Martial Law being announced in NJ.

Curfew 8:00pm to 5:00am.

What a bunch of crap.


16 posted on 03/16/2020 11:20:52 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

We got plenty of fearmongers here on FR that will be attacking you soon. Its a SARS virus and not the flu, so society must be destroyed.


17 posted on 03/16/2020 11:22:04 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: ConservativeInPA

It sure seems like the Coronavirus is really hitting Democrat areas hard.


18 posted on 03/16/2020 11:23:22 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: packrat35

In some parts of NJ that curfew should be permanent.


19 posted on 03/16/2020 11:24:25 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Murphy just went off on Russia, Russia, Russia. What an F’n tool.


20 posted on 03/16/2020 11:24:41 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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