New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will meet with the governors of New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts to discuss coordinating policies in fighting Covid-19 as cases rise in the northeastern states.
The meeting was first announced by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday, at a press conference where he announced rules to close bars, restaurants, and gyms after 10 PM. Those restrictions went into effect Friday evening. In New Jersey, Governor Murphy also enacted a 10 PM curfew on indoor dining and a ban on interstate organized sports. Murphy also signed an executive order permitting counties and municipalities to forcibly shut non-essential businesses after 8 PM.
The governors of the aforementioned states had agreed to coordinate their policy decisions relating to Covid-19 during the apex of the first wave of coronavirus, but as new cases decreased, each state decided on its own what measures to implement. But with a flood of new cases in New Jersey and other northeastern states, as well as a record number of new cases nationally, the governors have once again determined that a coordinated strategy is necessary to mitigate the further spread of the virus.
“We believe we’re going to have to be taking additional steps and to the extent we can share information and align action we’ll do that,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at his Friday press conference.
With Thanksgiving around the corner, the governors are concerned that families and friends gathering to celebrate the holiday will cause a further surge in new cases, and worry that their states’ hospitals and health care systems could become overloaded.
On Governor Murphy considering new restrictions, the National Federation of Independent Business said that unilateral actions taken by governors could further hurt small businesses and the economy as a whole. “The economic wreckage that added restrictions could cause here in New Jersey should be carefully considered because the consequences could be dire for small businesses and their employees.”
Ladies and gentlemen and all those not included, we are being played here. If you run the stats, and it does not take too much brains to do so, you will see that maybe maybe maybe we’re talking about .25% of the population! That’s nothing with nothing.
People who are immunocompromised need to watch themselves. The whole world doesn’t have to go crazy because of them.
You miss the amount hospitalizations and of those and the ones that get sick at home who are later found to have long lasting or permanent side effects to kidney, lungs, blood system etc. after they “recover” Everyone needs to watch themselves. Many who didn’t expect it ended up not just positive but very ill. Quit trying to comfort yourselves with that age old statistic.
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Northeast Dictators Meeting to Discuss Further Covid 19 Restrictions for the Deplorables (because they are so much smarter)