Posted on 03/19/2020 4:29:08 PM PDT by ManHunter
Gov. Wolf has announced that all but “life-sustaining” businesses in Pennsylvania must close by 8 p.m. Thursday as the novel coronavirus continues to spread.
The governor had previously asked nonessential businesses such as salons, gyms, theaters, and entertainment venues to close. Under the new order, life-sustaining businesses that may continue physical operations include gas stations, farms, health care facilities, and transit systems, according to the Wolf administration.
The order applies to the city of Philadelphia, which previously had been allowed to impose and enforce its own restrictions.
In ordering the stricter shutdown, Wolf is drawing on powers that his administration said comes from the disaster emergency declaration he signed on March 6, as he and his administration scrambled to slow the spread of COVID-19.
When Wolf declared the disaster emergency, he triggered a part of the state’s emergency management law that vastly expands a governor’s powers. They include everything from ordering mass evacuations to limiting or outright halting liquor and firearm sales.
Also among the new powers: controlling “ingress and egress to and from a disaster area, the movement of persons within the area, and the occupancy of premises therein.”
That is the section — coupled with other powers given to his administration from the state’s Disease Prevention and Control Law — that Wolf’s advisers have said gives the governor the authority to shut down schools and even order businesses to close.
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Pennsylvania is not the only state...
“businesses that aren’t ‘life-sustaining’ to close”
Would that include the state legislature, and the governor’s office?
Time to buy a poop ton more ammo folks. This is a power play. The question is, will you give your liberty up on your knees or make them take it from you.
Since when are things like preventing gun sales a cure for a virus?
SINCE WHEN?!?!
It should, but the good news is we should be able to re-open Churches if there is justice on earth.
Close the DMV!
WTF?
lol
...Wolf is drawing on powers that his administration said comes from the disaster emergency declaration he signed on March 6,...
So he’s using Powers that HE INVENTED.
Wow :)
Would that include the state legislature, and the governor’s office?
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Close them down! ZERO PAY WHILE THEY ARE CLOSED!
“life-sustaining” businesses***?
***to limiting or outright halting liquor and firearm sales.***
But, wait! In High School science class we were taught that alcohol was classed as a “FOOD” because the body metabolizes it, and we need firearms to sustain our lives from others who would take it.
Interesting to see what’s going to happen when people start running out of food because they no longer have a job.
That $1,000 check from the government won’t stretch very far.
AS long ass everyone get’s free Trump Money they’re OK with this tyranny.
Of course, if only because they can’t have their pretty little hides get infected.
Life-sustaining....
...hey, isn’t FOOD life-sustaining?
I would say around 40% of people here on FR would agree with you. But around 60% are showing themselves to be statis, big government lovers, and hysteria mongers!
You can kiss the Fourth of July goodbye. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been sold for use as toilet paper by the leftists.
Churches are closed up but I would guess places of prostitution are open. And drug dealer’s “cribs”.
And when the entire economy is driven into the ground, with massive unemployment & destroyed small businesses, you know who will continue receiving a paycheck? The politicians who are causing the economic mess in the first place. They’ll skate through without missing a beat.
Somebody had better get to Trump and tell him that those of us who have supported him have had enough already! The information we’ve been given thus far does not even come close to justifying suspension of our rights; we’re not subjects, we’re citizens - at least we were. If there’s information that would compel us - voluntarily - to adhere more strictly to government “recommendations” then tell us.
Our wastrel Commie governor should be the first to shut himself down. The freaking dummy closed REST STOPS along highways.
Well, the “if” more or less shifted the sentence into the realm of the Greek optative mood.
Would that rain were beer.
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