Posted on 05/01/2020 1:19:10 PM PDT by John W
Indiana will continue easing the stay-at-home restrictions in stages over the next two months, as long as new COVID-19 cases don’t delay those plans.
Gov. Eric Holcomb Friday unveiled a roadmap for the next two months, as midwestern states begin to move to a new normal from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of the details below could change based on hospitalized COVID-19 patients, ICU and ventilator availability, testing capabilities, and centralized contact tracing, but this is the current plan state officials are using.
Stage Two: May 4 – May 24
In stage two, the state plans to ease the restriction on social gatherings from 10 people to 25 people, if they follow social distancing guidelines. That new 25-person limitation does not include restaurants and places of worship.
Most retail businesses will be able to operate at 50% capacity. Stores inside malls will be able to operate at 50% capacity, but the mall common areas (such as food courts) will operate at 25%.
After a county has been in stage two for a week with no major issues, hair salons and barbershops will be able to open by appointment only. Restaurants and bars that serve food will be able to open at 50% capacity.
Visitation in nursing homes, casinos, nightclubs, gyms, zoos, concerts, fairs, movie theaters, amusement parks will all be closed in stage two.
People age 65 or older, or those with health conditions should remain home in stage two.
Hoosiers will also be able to convene in their churches or other places of worship in stage two. On May 8, Holcomb is lifting the restriction on people inside churches. This will take effect statewide, including Marion, Lake and Cass counties.
The state will issue guidance on its preferences for churches – seats should be marked, 6 feet between families, etc.
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ACE Hardware and some local greenhouses are open today. Parking lots are PACKED. I noticed more traffic as well.
How about opening 100 per cent today?
Holcomb the RINO is just loving this shit. This guy needs to be thrown out on his ass. What a joke. Is “he” going to pay for all of these people that he denies the ability to go back to work?
Our local ACE Hardware store here in the southern San Francisco Peninsula has stayed open throughout the entire time! They did the usual limits on number of people in the store, one in/one out, and reduced hours, but they have stayed open as “essential.” I was shocked that some public officials actually had a shred of common sense.
Seems that none of these states have any interest in really opening.
Trump is doing a Town Hall on reopening on Fox News.
Sunday night from 7-9PM.
They are taking emailed video questions at
townhall@foxnews.com.
With all the states, number of new cases should be irrelevant. The only things relevant are numbers of severe cases needing hospitalization, and what is that rate per million people, and number of sever cases ending in death, per million people.
*80% to 90% or more all new cases will at most result in a mild case that does not require hospitalization or end in death. Those folks are no case for shutting anything down.
Those who are most vulnerable for a severe case can be institutionally sheltered or encouraged or aided to self-shelter at home, you do not need to shelter the whole population from the whole population. All you do with doing that is you manufacturer an open-up and close-down-again, and again, scenario until sufficient herd immunity is obtained. The economy cannot survive that. All the revenue needed for attending to the virus and attending to the economic distress is burnt up in a fire sale of a depression. Everyone will be on the dole and using ration cards for everything.
You simply need to open the economy up and protect and treat the vulnerable. Most of the rest of us will get our mild infection and get over it, just as most do from the flu every year.
There is no coming back from COVID people died. But Indiana can come from the idiotic lockdowns. Eventually, it will take a decade. The restoration of liberty, maybe never.
Some good news from the governor of Indiana (republican)
“Eventually, it will take a decade. The restoration of liberty, maybe never.”
I’ll mark you down as surrendered.
Threw a pillow at the TV last time I listen to him and the DR DumbBOX. Don’t know what broke but it did. Almost worth it. When is he up for Re election? Am so over him. Called State Rep and both senators and doctrine nine represent. He’s pulling the entire party down.
Before the cooked-up crisis - Eric the Rino had a 60%+ lead for the Governors race. He is running against a Democratic Lunatic Fringe Doctor from Evansville.
Given the way Holcomb has screwed up the crisis management - it will be a lot closer in November.
I really hope that the plan works out. It is the first thing I’ve seen that gives me any hope.
I certainly won’t vote for him.
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