Mississippi Governor Clarifies Order Defining Most Businesses as Essential

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Source: New York Times

Mississippi Governor Clarifies Order Defining Most Businesses as Essential

Gov. Tate Reeves issued a supplement to an executive order about essential businesses, saying it was a standard for local leaders, who had already issued their own.

By Christine Hauser
March 26, 2020

Days after issuing an executive order that broadly defined most businesses as essential during the coronavirus shutdown, Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi said on Thursday that it was not meant to interfere with decisions made by local governments.

Governor Reeves signed the order on Tuesday, saying that essential businesses should be allowed to stay open, with some limitations, during the coronavirus shutdown. It offered a broad list of such businesses, including some that were exempt from limits on gatherings of more than 10 people as long as they took into account “reasonable measures,” such as social distancing and sending sick employees home.

After widespread criticism, Governor Reeves said on Thursday that he would issue a supplemental notice saying that the order was intended as “a floor statewide” for local governments to follow.

Some cities and counties in the state had already imposed their own more narrow restrictions regarding which businesses were considered essential, leading to confusion about how the state order would be executed.

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The executive order defines essential businesses as those involved in public safety, including emergency medical workers and health care operations and facilities. It also includes laundromats and home and auto repair. Restaurants and bars were also considered essential and could provide dine-in services, but they were not allowed to have more than 10 customers at a time in seating areas or other indoor spaces.

The list included nearly every type of business, including financial and religious institutions, and real estate services. On Twitter, the governor said he rejected “dictatorship models like China” in his approach to the order, which in some cases appeared, in effect, to overturn local orders put into place by local governments.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/mississippi-coronavirus-essential-businesses-tate-reeves.html

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1. He's setting his state up to fail badly

As others ,its been shown, that failed from doing what he's trying to do. Remember trump is instigating this now from using his supporters in powerful positions to force return to work while a pandemic is attacking us. Soon trump will threaten those who refuse to send their workers back to work using aid and anything else to hurt them with as a weapon to demand they send their people into a crisis putting they're lives at risk for trumps gains.