Posted on 11/16/2020 4:43:27 PM PST by McGruff
Today, Gov. Reynolds signed a new Public Health Disaster proclamation that imposes a number of additional public health measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. These new measures will be effective at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, November 17 and will continue until 11:59 p.m. on December 10, 2020. To view a summary of enhanced mitigation measures, click here.
The proclamation requires that when people are in an indoor public space, and unable to social distance for 15 minutes or longer, masks are required to be worn. The same requirements apply to visitors and employees inside State buildings. Additional mask requirements are imposed for certain specific establishments and gatherings.
The proclamation also limits indoor social, community, business and leisure gatherings or events to 15 people. Outdoor gatherings are limited to 30. This includes wedding and funeral receptions, family gatherings and conventions. But it does not restrict gatherings that occur in the workplace as part of normal daily business or government operations.
With the exception of high school, collegiate and professional sports, all organized youth and adult sports activities of any size are suspended. This includes basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, swimming, dance, and group fitness classes at gyms. While high school sports and extracurricular activities are not prohibited, spectators at games or events are limited to 2 per student and are required to wear a mask.
Restaurants, bars, bowling alleys, arcades, pool halls, bingo halls, and indoor playgrounds are required to close at 10 p.m. and cannot host private gatherings of more than 15 people. Masks must be worn by staff who have direct contact with customers, and customers must wear masks when they are not seated at their table to eat or drink. The proclamation also requires masks inside casinos.
The proclamation also requires hospitals to ensure that inpatient elective procedures are reduced by 50%.
Stealing President Biden's thunder?
Pols, Republican and Democrat, are power-hungry.
Glad I’m not in Iowa.
However, I wouldn’t count on linguini spined goovenair Henry not to do something similar.
Where is the Antifa/BLM rioting exception?
F’em. This is unconstitutional BS.
Ridiculous
Joe Biden
Lord Fauci
Nancy Pelosi
et al are exempted.
People are already wearing masks in public. If they did any good, the virus would not be spreading.
What is it with this mask thing? We have never worn them with the flu.
Why I was at UT Austin the campus map had Iowa listed as “remote parking.”
I’ve never understood the desire to lord over others.
That’s the way I look at it.
Our Constitution doesn’t mean a thing to this batch of crazies.
Mask mandate in Ohio since early July, more cases than ever, supposedly. Seems like masks aren’t the answer.
The proclamation requires that when people are in an indoor public space, and unable to social distance for 15 minutes or longer, masks are required to be worn
Actually one of the more lenient and reasonable mask mandates...most just say in a business, period.
This one has a little time and distance science.
My Governor, Kristi Noem thankfully will never do this in South Dakota.
What is it with this mask thing?
It has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with control.
Oh, yeah, you try keeping a mask on a three year old. Get back to me with the results, assuming you don't drink yourself into a stupor that evening.
If only she could be our governor here in SC, even part-time. Just phone and video call things in.
My Governor, Kristi Noem thankfully will never do this in South Dakota.
That's right, rub it in .... :-)
If we were talking about a very serious disease with a very
high mortality rate, I could see some measures like this.
Sorry, they simply have not convinced me that they are
shooting straight with all their numbers.
It looks for all the world like they are producing numbers to
panic the public. The public isn’t buying it.
Meanwhile the Western World is being ripped apart.
China sits over in a corner snickering, working and
producing goods to sell globally, while everyone else is
in panic mode.
The higher the numbers go, the more control governments
want.
Meanwhile on the streets we have the One World Government
Brown Shirts on approved jaunts attacking and potentially
killing people while police officer watch on, not taking
any action.
James Bond would have taken out the powers behind all this
at least one bathroom break before now.
As questions about the legitimacy of the election increase so do the reported cases of the virus.
Perfect correlation.
Maybe governors can lock everyone indoors and turn off the internet to avoid a panic.
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