Governor orders out-of-state travelers to immediately self-quarantine for 14 days

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Cape Gazette (Delaware)

Governor John Carney on Sunday signed the seventh modification to his State of Emergency declaration, ordering all out-of-state travelers into Delaware to immediately self-quarantine for 14 days to fight the spread of COVID-19. Under Sunday’s order, anyone who enters Delaware from another state must immediately self-quarantine for 14 days.

The 14-day period is measured from the time of entry into Delaware or for the duration of the individual’s presence in Delaware, whichever is shorter. Carney’s order also applies to anyone who has entered Delaware in the last 14 days.

The order does not apply to travelers who are merely passing through Delaware. Anyone who lives out-of-state and commutes to Delaware for essential work is strongly encouraged to work from home. Sunday’s order does not apply to those traveling to care for members of their family. Individuals under self-quarantine can leave their homes to seek medical care.

Carney’s order will take effect at 8 a.m., Monday, March 30. “Now’s not the time to visit Delaware. We’re facing a serious situation here that is getting worse,” said Carney. “Delawareans need to stay at home, and anyone from another state visiting Delaware should immediately self-quarantine for two weeks. Everyone needs to take this threat seriously. Our goal is to limit a surge in COVID-19 cases that would overwhelm our hospital system. We’ll get through this - but everyone needs to pitch in.”

Read more: https://www.capegazette.com/article/governor-orders-out-state-travelers-immediately-self-quarantine-14-days/200154

[Steelrolled]

1. Directed towards NJ and NY

[BumRushDaShow]

2. And to here in PA. Northern DE is part of the Philly metro area

There are quite a few who live in the Wilmington area who commute to Philly (about 30 miles downtown to downtown) and Philly people go down there to the beaches and for the cheap liquor and to buy other stuff (with no sales taxes).

[BigmanPigman]

3. PA, DE and NJ is the "other" tri-state area.

Jersey is in both.

I didn't know DE doesn't have a sales tax. I wish I did when I lived in PA.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Yuppers.

And oh hell yeah - Delaware is like New Hampshire - no sales tax.

[BluesRunTheGame]

5. Oregon and Montana also don't have a sales tax.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Good to know!

[DenverJared]

7. If one excuses people "passing through" an area

it is defeating the purpose.

People passing through can also carry the infection and pass it on to people in a gas station store while buying coffee and a snack bar for example.

[Igel]

8. Look at the map of Delaware.

I drove from Baltimore to Hoboken (or the other way) every couple of weeks for a few semesters.

You take the interstate and you leave Jersey, pass through maybe 10 miles of Delaware on the interstate, and then you're in MD. Turnoffs to go towards PA, but it's really hard to go around DE.

Same for parts of MD's eastern shore. It's not like you're trapped, but if you can't go through DE then your life just got a lot harder.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Various interstates cut through Wilmington, Delaware (primarily I-95)

The trucking route through there between D.C. and Boston, cuts through the most heavily populated areas in the country.

[DenverJared]

10. I'm sorry. Didn't realize the geography

I have never been in that part. To me, passing through a state is a long affair with getting gas, food and use of facilities.

Thank you for the map

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The truckers do have to often stop for gas/food/bathroom facilities

and many were complaining when states initially closed down the rest stops, with some states allowing use of some porta-potties.

Thankfully, most states that initially did that (including here in PA) partially rescinded that so that truckers can keep moving the supplies up and down the highways and get a meal and bathroom break!

(and I have been to Denver as a FYI and know that I-25 rolls through there )

[George II]

14. Even shorter is the trip through W. Va on I-70 from PA to Ohio, less than 10 miles.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I thought the ultimate

was going back home to Philly after a work trip to Berkeley Springs, WV, and heading up Rt. 522, going across a bridge over the Potomac River where there was a "Welcome to Maryland" sign on the bridge, and then continuing a few more miles further north and seeing a "Welcome to Pennsylvania" sign.

[George II]

16. I forgot about that narrow strip of West Virginia out there, probably the narrowest in the US.

[The Polack MSgt]

17. George that's my home area

Grew up 13 miles from Wheeling about just south of rt 40 - and Yeah you're in Ohio in no time at all

[henbuck]

11. Nobody visits Delaware when it is cold out anyway.

Now if it was during beach season, that would be something else.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Au contraire

Folks in Philly (including one of my sisters and BIL) go down there to the (sales tax free) furniture outlets for the President Day's sales... plus South Philly folks go down there to get cheap liquor year-round.