Posted on 03/27/2020 4:32:12 PM PDT by Enlightened1
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Friday a statewide mandate to prohibit non-essential travel and operations amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolinians will need to 'stay at home,' North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Friday.
A statewide North Carolina 'stay at home' proclamation will order residents to suspend all unnecessary travel through April 29.
"I know this order may lead to more hardship and heartache," Cooper said.
Essential services, such as grocery stores and medical services, will reopen open and operational.
The governor noted three North Carolinians have died due to COVID-19 and the state has 763 confirmed cases of the virus in 60 counties.
He called on all North Carolinians to protect themselves by staying home and following social distancing guidelines. North Carolina is now considered to have widespread transmission of the virus, which means people who have tested positive cannot trace where they were exposed to the virus.
"We are also working to prepare for the surge of patients expected at
our hospitals. We are identifying facilities that can serve as overflow for our hospitals, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is helping prepare facilities," said Michael Sprayberry, the director of the North Carolina Emergency Management.
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"Businesses should review the executive order and the FAQ document carefully to determine whether they may continue operations," Sprayberry said. "In cases where a local order and the state order differ, the more restrictive requirement will apply. "
Localized 'stay at home' orders went into effect this week in Charlotte and surrounding counties.
North Carolina joins a list of at least 24 other states with similar orders.
These orders are not total lockdowns, and federal law allows each state or city to decide its own rules when mandating residents stay home.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcnc.com ...
“30 day Stay At Home order for all of North Carolina - 30-Mar to 30-Apr!”
What year?
I’m in an essential field so I’ll be working.
So Andy Griffith, Aunt Bee, Opie and Deputy Barney Fife could read the Bible, sing and play guitar and piano, play checkers and board games and eat fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy with biscuits and honey, then choice of cherry pie or chocolate cake.
North Carolina quarantine wasn’t so bad. Then.
In Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer specified marijuana stores and abortion centers as essential to be kept open. Churches, synagogues and mosques to be closed if ten people enter. They are locked up now.
I have to wonder now if this is in part politically motivated. Much of the rest of the country will be emerging from quarantine a couple of weeks before that.
And I don’t see western North Carolina (mountains) as any kind of hot spot for the virus.
Looking for federal tag-a-long concurrence on a state state-of-emergency to get matching federal funds.
Ping....
Looks like every Democrat governor got the memo: “Kill your economy so we can kill Trump.”
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Don’t be surprised if all those other states extend their orders into May. Some of these experts are saying we won’t hit our peak for another 3 weeks.
I'm suspecting that.
The spring break crowd has just made its way back home.
NYC and NY downstaters are heading south fleeing the city.
After Easter, most of the snowbirds head north, which will be just about as the infection rates from the spring break crowd are starting to ramp up or peak.
So there's a lot of transmission being spread over a period of a couple months, which will drag this out even further.
The time to stock up again is now, in the lull before people realize what is coming.
At the very least, it won't hurt to be sure.
I know it's not optimistic, but that's my suspicion about what's about to play out.
You forgot Aunt Bee's pickles.
yep
You forgot Aunt Bee’s pickles.
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Those just might e the elusive cure that theyre looking for...
So if I tell them to piss off, what can they do? Seriously its 32 miles round trip to the base, I am going to the exchange tomorrow. Who decides what is necessary travel? All our stores are open? I am seriously asking how can they enforce this?
Stupid, just stupid. Even Cuomo walked back his quarantine BS today.
My mom has a little family in Murphy.
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