Posted on 04/03/2020 5:27:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
EFFERSON CITY — Gov. Mike Parson put all Missouri residents under a stay-at-home order Friday, ending days of frustration for critics who said he should have taken the action weeks ago to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
On a day when the number of deaths in Missouri linked to the deadly virus stood at 19, Parson’s order gives local officials the ability to determine what are essential services.
The Republican chief executive, who once served as sheriff in Polk County, said he wanted to give mayors and county officials some flexibility in their enforcement of the requirement.
“As governor I have no greater responsibility than to protect the health and safety of all Missourians,” Parson said. “There are six million of us who call Missouri home.”
The order goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday and remains in effect through April 24.
Missouri reported its first case of the coronavirus on March 7 and has watched as the respiratory disease has rapidly spread. State health officials said there were 2,113 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Friday afternoon.
Kansas City, St. Louis and more than three dozen Missouri cities and counties already had issued stay-at-home orders, allowing residents to leave their homes only for essential reasons.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is leading the federal government response to the pandemic, has said all states should have shelter-in-place orders.
But Parson, while asking Missourians to remain home, had refrained from issuing an order to that effect. His previous order, set to expire Monday, had limited gatherings statewide to no more than 10 people, leaving Missouri with a patchwork quilt of regulations.
Parson’s administration has closed the Capitol, shuttered some state parks, banned camping and has assigned more than 15,000 state employees to work from home.
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Aren’t these guys doing now what folks here have been in a feeding frenzy for blue states govs doing it weeks ago?
this **** needs to stop!
people are at the breaking point.
amen!
Another Republican governor caves.
The most vocal of those critics who pressured the governor are paid agents of CHINA!
I suspect they’ll all be lined up and shot at some point in the future. That’s what usually happens to the useful idiots of totalitarian regimes.
Gee, 19 people died. That’s certainly enough to shut down an entire state’s economy. < /sarc >
If it saves only one life..............
“this **** needs to stop!
people are at the breaking point.”
Speak for yourself. I don’t know one person who is at the breaking point.
It just seems to be more gesture politics at this stage in time.
More than that will die of deaths of despair, statistically.
Death delights democrats.
Hey, tomorrow it will be up to 20.
Yeah. 1200 people in Missouri died from the flu last year.
Parks are closed. What bullshit.
Parson is an old RINO who is going to get beat by a sick leftist.
The stupid fuddy-duddy already said this is his last term.
What an idiot.
Thanks Josh Hawley for leading the charge against Gov. Greitens. Thanks for nothing.
Election years and flu pandemics don’t mix.
What is the plan for reopening? Must we remain closed for months, in our homes doing nothing, while the economy tanks?
Meanwhile, Lowes is open for business and very, very crowded. WTF is going on?
Soros
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