The governor has extended her emergency orders to May 28. Order 2020-69 was signed Thursday evening at 9:27 pm. To read it, please click here.
In a news release, the governor noted these excerpts from the order:
“This order does not restrict a place of business from offering food and beverage using delivery service, window service, walk-up service, drive-through service, or drive-up service. Places of public accommodation are encouraged to offer food and beverage service in one or more of those ways and use precautions to mitigate potential transmission of COVID-19, including social distancing and wearing as face covering. Restaurants may allow five people inside at a time to pick up orders, so long as they stay six feet apart from each other.
“These restrictions do not apply to the following locations: office buildings, grocery stores, markets, food pantries, pharmacies, drug stores, and providers of medical equipment and supplies, health care facilities, residential care facilities, congregate care facilities, and juvenile justice facilities, warehouse and distribution centers, and industrial and manufacturing facilities.
If you read to the bottom 2020-69, you will find that it reasserts order 2020-59. “The restrictions and requirements imposed by this order supplement, and must not be construed to diminish or relax in any way, the restrictions and requirements imposed by Executive Order 2020-59 or any executive order that may follow from it.
To read 2020-59 signed on April 24th, please click here.
Here are some direct quotes from the governor’s news release regarding 2020-59:
“The order will require people to wear homemade, non-medical grade face coverings when they enter enclosed public spaces. It will also require employers to provide at least cloth face coverings to their employees. People won’t have to wear face coverings when they’re taking a walk in the neighborhood, but when they go to the grocery store, they should be wearing one. Under the order, however, no one will be subject to criminal penalty for going without a mask.
“The new executive order will also allow some workers who perform very previously suspended activities to go back on the job. Landscapers, lawn-service companies, and nurseries can return to work, subject to strict social distancing. Retailers to that do not sell necessary supplies may reopen for curbside pick-up and for delivery. Big box stores can reopen “closed areas,” like garden centers. And bike repair and maintenance can come back online.
“At the same time, the order will ease up on some restrictions on members of the public. It will, for example, allow motorized boating and golf (but no golf carts), consistent with sound social distancing. It will also permit individuals to travel between their residences, though such travel during the epidemic is strongly discouraged. And it will clarify that state parks remain open, as they have been throughout the emergency.
The governor’s actions have been controversial as witnessed by protests in Lansing and reaction from the legislature. The following is provided to further understanding.
The governor’s new order went forward without the legislature. The Bridge wrote on April 29, that the governor would not negotiate regarding her orders:
“With tensions high at the Michigan Capitol, the Whitmer administration took the rare step of disclosing an internal email exchange with a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, who proposed extending an emergency declaration set to expire Friday by up to two weeks in exchange for a public promise by the governor to work with lawmakers on future orders.”
“The first-term Democrat, who has requested a 28-day extension, rejected the offer and told GOP leaders she believes she has the authority to continue emergency actions with or without their blessing.”
Senator Shirkey from Clark Lake, was interviewed on April 29th. To hear his comments that appear on the MIRSNews.com website, please click here.
The governor needs to go. She is acting like Hitler we should have the right to do whatever we want. Who is she to tell us what to do with our bodies and our lives. She is hurting our economy and she is ruining people’s lives. But she doesn’t want to listen to the government or the people of Michigan so she will find out come election time how much this affected her. Why can’t the government intervene and use their authority to overrule her she is not the president. Idk who she thinks she is but she is not what we want. Trump 2020
Your Hitler statement is ridiculous.
Gov Whitmer is going to destroy the economy and well being of Michigan Citizens if she keeps extending these orders. We can’t stay locked up forever.
In our rights as Americans the first right is LIFE , and if people disregarding the rules of quarantine, and storming the capital bldg. (some toting guns) then those folks, are violating my rights as a citizen of this country. Remember Kevin Bacon’s 3 degrees of separation, think about that in terms of who you may infect. Can you really live with giving this virus by an intentional abuse of quarantine rules, to someone else, and that person subsequently dies ?
God Bless the Governor. She has closed nothing ! The virus Has. Wear your masks and put up with the inconvenience for now , it is not forever. Saving lifes is worth the incnvenience.