Posted on 04/17/2020 1:12:04 PM PDT by commish
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth says some businesses required to close under the ongoing stay at home order should be allowed to immediately reopen. Ainsworth and the Alabama Small Business Commission’s Emergency Task Force released a report Friday morning with recommendations to Gov. Kay Ivey for reopening businesses in Alabama. The task force is a subcommittee of business leaders and members of the Alabama Legislature. [Read the full report here] These are just recommendations. Alabama issued a statewide stay at home order on April 3. The order, which is set to expire May 1, prohibits all non-work related gatherings of 10 people or more and requires all nonessential businesses to remain closed. Ivey has said she and State Health Officer Scott Harris will review the stay at home order on or before April 28. The committees recommendations Friday include reopening close contact services, restaurants, and retail businesses immediately under strict guidelines. “It’s currently considered safe to go to a box store and buy potentially furniture. It’s currently considered safe to go to a box store and buy clothing. It’s currently considered safe to go to a box store and even buy jewelry. And our message is simple," Ainsworth said. “The message about social distancing is spreading people out, and the committee says that it’s not fair for small businesses to be open and be penalized. And we actually believe smaller stores mean smaller risk."
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Ainsworth and the Alabama Small Business Commission’s Emergency Task Force released a report Friday morning with recommendations to Gov. Kay Ivey for reopening businesses in Alabama. The task force is a subcommittee of business leaders and members of the Alabama Legislature.
These are just recommendations. Alabama issued a statewide stay at home order on April 3. The order, which is set to expire May 1, prohibits all non-work related gatherings of 10 people or more and requires all nonessential businesses to remain closed. Ivey has said she and State Health Officer Scott Harris will review the stay at home order on or before April 28.
The committees recommendations Friday include reopening close contact services, restaurants, and retail businesses immediately under strict guidelines.
“It’s currently considered safe to go to a box store and buy potentially furniture. It’s currently considered safe to go to a box store and buy clothing. It’s currently considered safe to go to a box store and even buy jewelry. And our message is simple," Ainsworth said. “The message about social distancing is spreading people out, and the committee says that it’s not fair for small businesses to be open and be penalized. And we actually believe smaller stores mean smaller risk."
Red state revolt!
Makes sense to this Alabama boy. Open up and be careful. If we can social distance at the grocery store, we can do it anywhere.
This sounds better than the Texas plan. Some retail business can open but only mail order, or curbside you can not enter the door.
FYI, Ainsworth is kind of doing damage control. For weeks he had been posting updates and predictions that Alabama would have 8,000 - 10,000 deaths. He has been mocked and derided for his doomsday predictions. He was finally shamed into revising his predictions.
Now he is “LET’S OPEN IT UP!” gung-ho.
I’m glad we’re about to open it back up in Alabama, but Ainsworth has shown very poorly the past 2 months.
“statewide stay at home order”?
Where?
Here in Montgomery there are all sorts of people who are out and about for no reason.
Proving once again that there’s no fool like an old fool.
I noticed that nowhere in the plan does it recommend a testing program. It relies completely on the honesty of employees and customers to say they don’t have any symptoms. Could make for some interesting results.
It’s up to MeMaw Ivey, who is uber cautious, like you’d expect from a schoolmarm scold.
Curbside retail? How would that even work?
You order and pay online and then they stick it outside and put it in your car or something like that.
Wanna date???
These recommendations have been given to the governor and she is considering them along with other recommendations. Momentum is building for finding ways to reopen.
“It relies completely on the honesty of employees and customers to say they don’t have any symptoms. Could make for some interesting results.”
No kidding. You could be riddled with syphilitic Soros spirochetes and show no symptoms, yet be highly contagious. We need to test everyone for every disease known to man before allowing anyone to buy a banana.
In Mobile, my neighbors upscale landscaping business hasn't missed a day of work yet.
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