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Pa. COVID-19 restrictions won’t end before Memorial Day, Gov. Tom Wolf says
Pennlive ^ | 26 May A.D. 2021 | Ron Southwick

Posted on 05/26/2021 9:29:34 AM PDT by lightman

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday that he won’t lift the COVID-19 restrictions until Memorial Day, despite requests to do so earlier.

Earlier this month, Wolf said the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on businesses and gatherings would end on Memorial Day, May 31. Businesses, including restaurants and entertainment venues, can operate at full capacity starting Monday at 12:01 a.m. There will be no state-imposed limits on gatherings - including pro sports events - beginning on Memorial Day.

Some lawmakers had asked the governor to end the restrictions on Friday, so businesses that have been hurting during the pandemic can move to full capacity for the full holiday weekend.

At a news conference in Lancaster, Wolf said he doesn’t plan to alter the timeline. He noted the bipartisan COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force signed off on ending the restrictions on Memorial Day.

“We all decided May 31, midnight on Memorial Day would be the day we lift those restrictions,” Wolf said.

“They’ll be fully lifted on May 31. I’m comfortable and I think most Pennsylvanians are too that we’re doing the right thing,” he said.

The state is continuing to make progress on COVID-19 vaccinations, Wolf said. About 52% of the state’s adults are fully vaccinated. The state’s mask order will remain in effect until 70% of Pennsylvania adults are fully vaccinated, Wolf has said.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most places, including indoors, and Pennsylvania is following that guidance. The CDC still advises partially vaccinated or unvaccinated people to wear masks. Some grocery stores and retailers no longer require customers to wear masks.

Last month, capacity limits were raised to 75% for restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues including casinos, theaters and malls. On May 17, the occupancy limit for indoor events rose to 50% of capacity, while limits for outdoor events and gatherings moved to 75% of capacity.

As more people have been vaccinated, fewer COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are being reported. Only 5 Pennsylvania counties are now showing substantial spread of COVID-19, the Wolf administration said Tuesday.

At the press conference in Lancaster, Wolf again renewed calls for raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage, a goal he has pursued for more than six years. The Democratic governor wants to raise the state’s minimum wage to $12 an hour and eventually raise it to $15 per hour by 2027. The state’s minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour for a decade.

Republicans, who control the General Assembly, have opposed raising the minimum wage in the past and some have argued it shouldn’t be done after businesses have been hammered in the pandemic. Some Republican lawmakers have said they support a more modest increase in the minimum wage.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: culturalmarxism; lockdowns; memorialday; openpa; paping; tomwolf; waronholidays; waronmemorialday; wolf
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To: lightman

Memorial Day or couple days prior, what’s the difference? Sit at a bar or at a table, what’s the difference? Close restraraunts and bars at 10 o’clock or a few hours later, what’s the difference? Wear a mask that doesn’t stop the ChiCom virus or not wear a mask, what’s the difference? Wolf declared essential businesses or non-essential businesses, what’s the difference? Freedom and liberty or tyranny, what’s the difference? The eff’n pussy RINOs that control both chambers of the legislature don’t know and don’t care. Screw them all. May they burn in hell for eternity with Wolf and his tranny butt buddy.


21 posted on 05/26/2021 10:01:59 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Bob434

Yea. You first.


22 posted on 05/26/2021 10:03:58 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: lightman

Can’t neuter something that never had balls in the first place...

Wolf is that rare trifecta of ignorance, laziness and arrogance.


23 posted on 05/26/2021 10:08:24 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: cyclotic

Lol no, do as I say, not as I do 😆


24 posted on 05/26/2021 10:09:02 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: albie

Wolf is simply an Communist ass with flatulent power.


25 posted on 05/26/2021 10:12:46 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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To: albie

Doesn’t matter, I will not be obeying any of his arbitrary “mandates”.


26 posted on 05/26/2021 10:15:39 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: lightman

Is any government agency actually enforcing this rubbish?


27 posted on 05/26/2021 10:18:57 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: knarf
I'm in Washington Co.

Brownsville Wally World hasn't been enforcing masks for months, though as of Monday employees still wore them.

28 posted on 05/26/2021 10:19:38 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: lightman

That tyrant really likes his power doesn’t he....

Everybody in the state should dump their masks at the steps of his residence.


29 posted on 05/26/2021 10:19:58 AM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: lightman

Pure vindictiveness.


30 posted on 05/26/2021 10:20:13 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: Eagles6

Washington County is Trump world ... Allegheny is mentally deficient.


31 posted on 05/26/2021 10:23:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: albie
Petty tyrants do enjoy their petty torments ... especially when they get to hurt people. I say to the American citizens living in Pennsylvania: "Just ignore the fat b@stard!"
32 posted on 05/26/2021 10:24:05 AM PDT by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: lightman

No ones enforcing them anyway. He’s an idiot


33 posted on 05/26/2021 10:27:14 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: lightman

This rectum posing as a governor has never owned or managed a real business and probably none of his staff/advisors ever owned or managed a real business.

When your business is not open on regular hours, your chances of recovery of your lost business are slim to none.

The rectum governor for California will not allow full opening until the magical 16 th of June.


34 posted on 05/26/2021 10:27:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: Grampa Dave

Actually the Guv is fourth generation management of a lumber and furniture business which he decreed “essential” during the lockdown.

Also connected with The Wolf Foundation

https://www.bizapedia.com/pa/the-wolf-foundation.html


35 posted on 05/26/2021 10:32:58 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: PghBaldy

They’ll be full capacity anyway over the weekend.....nobody’s going to count.


36 posted on 05/26/2021 10:50:12 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: PghBaldy

Isn’t Allegheny County a Demorat stronghold?

When I lived in Pttsburgh area I was stunned how the people there stand in lines, drive in lines even when there are several lanes, and do so even if lines aren’t required. I often thought these people are ‘followers’ and easily led.


37 posted on 05/26/2021 10:56:05 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: knarf

Wal-mart Hamburg Pa. most people not wearing masks and in Redner’s also....what a nice feeling to go into a store without that disgusting thing on your face....


38 posted on 05/26/2021 10:58:18 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: knarf

Totally agree.


39 posted on 05/26/2021 12:20:00 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: lightman

Science only works on mondays


40 posted on 05/26/2021 1:17:41 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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