State Sen. Doug Mastriano went through the 66 page ruling in detail last night on his nightly video chat. It is devastating. It appears that Wolf delegated the whole operation to his staff, who were either too lazy, incompetent or arrogant to even lay down the necessary fig leaves to defend it in court.
Of course I won’t be the least bit surprised if the appeals court tosses all of the immutable logic in this decision and circles the wagons around the Swamp.
It’s worth noting that the Carlisle Car Show won their legal battle simply by presenting evidence in court showing that jackass governor parading around in “Black Lives Matter” protests — without a face diaper and with no social distancing measures in place. The judge in that case basically just laughed the health commissioner’s lawyers out of her courtroom.
Last I heard, PA sports bar / restaurants (at least here in Montgomery county), just got ordered to stop selling alcohol after 10pm, beginning September 21st.
This is the final nail in the coffin for many sports bar / restaurants which were limping by on 25% seating capacity, suspended promotional activities, such as league pool, live music, quizzo, back to college celebrations, and televised sports events.
Even apart from the seating capacity restrictions, business is way off, as customers stay away for a myriad of reasons: Some actually fear Covid19, others are disappointed or confused by the limited services, limited menus, unpredictable hours, reduced entertainment - many customers, apparently, find the ambience of a mostly-empty establishment with small clusters of mask-wearing introverts to be depressing.
Owners, managers and servers had worked hard and sacrificed much to adapt to the distancing guidelines, hoping to survive the summer, strung along by vague promises that PA should be able to return to normal “sometime in the fall”, but this new order is a real punch in the gut.