Gov. Murphy plans to give 'broad blueprint’ this week for re-opening N.J. from coronavirus lockdown

NJ.com ^ | 2/21/2020 | Matt Arco

[usafa92]

Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday he’ll give New Jerseyans a “broad blueprint” by the end of the week on how the state will begin to reopen from the near-lockdown orders he put in place to combat to the coronavirus and return to “some new normalcy.”

The governor said the announcement won’t include a specific date on when people can expect to have the unprecedented restrictions lifted, but it will include key benchmarks that must be met, including the availability of broader testing.

Murphy said during his daily briefing in Trenton he would unveil “principles” that “will guide us ... as we sort of put the pieces in place to get back to some new normalcy."

He has stressed “personal health creates economic health” and has repeatedly called for people to continue to adhere to the strict orders even as the number of people being hospitalized appears to be slowly dropping off, according to state data.

Officials reported Monday there have been at least 88,806 cases of COVID-19 in the state, with at least 4,377 deaths.

The governor said the state needs to at least double the amount of testing that’s currently done before restrictions to mitigate the spread are lifted.

[usafa92]

Essentially, the unions had a little chat with Phil. The reality of Phil’s $7B budget deficit has hit home. That, and the entire summer season will be lost if Phil doesn’t end this nonsense in the next several weeks.

[mewzilla]

By unions, you mean public sector unions?

I suspect those are the only ones that matter in NJ.

[nesnah]

Phail Murphy is a, well, failure.

[max americana]

Broad blue print means opening Christmas 2020.

[usafa92]

Correct. Gov Woodchuck threatened to furlough state workers as a ploy to get $7B from the Feds.

[abb]

Oh, yes. All over the country, politicians and deadhead public employees have finally figured out that if the host dies, the parasites have nothing upon which to feed.

[Buckeye McFrog]

More stall tactics. But it does reveal that he’s feeling the heat.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Broad blueprint? Isn’t that what Joe Biden used to decide where to put his hands?

[mewzilla]

On a related note...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

[Ann Archy]

Phil Murphy is a TYPICAL DEMOCRAT....POWER HUNGRY, VILE and STUPID!! DANGEROUS COMBO!

[max americana]

“Broad blueprint? Isn’t that what Joe Biden used to decide where to put his hands?”

Yet. Previously done with a “broad blue print” based on a blue dress by a former rapist president..

[SkyPilot]

Gov "Nipple Rings" Cuomo (D-NY) tried to intimidate President Trump to give New York state a "bailout" of billions of dollars.

Cuomo and Trump spar after NY governor says don’t 'pass the buck without passing the bucks'

Trump handed Cuomo his a$$.

Now Cuomo and the other little Hitler governors realize they are in deep kimchi.

Illinois is continuing to send out fat pension checks, while it accelerates towards the brick wall at 100 mph.

Illinois Senate Democrats Seek $41B Federal Bailout for Coronavirus Impact - Among other items, Senate President Don Harmon requested $10 billion for pension relief

It's all fun and games to play Hitler like Heil Whitmer in Michigan and Phil Murphy in New Jersey. It's wonderful to contemplate that President Trump's economic miracle has been shattered before the fall elections. It's nirvana to dream that all in-person voting will be made illegal so that Democrats can steal elections in perpetuity.

But the budget nightmare realities are also smacking these Democrat globalists in the face.

Each one of these red bubbles represents a retired school teacher or public employee who is raking in a six figure pension in Illinois. 95,000 retirees in Illinois who draw these 6 figure pensions are costing the state billions per year alone.

Same thing in NY, NJ, and other states.

Democrats are themselves a virus.

[9YearLurker]

Surely they could announce the reopening by mid-November, so Thanksgiving could be the time.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Tested...and tagged...

[P.O.E.]

“Broad blueprint” means mere platitudes because libs couldn’t even run a lemonade stand.

[FlipWilson]

Looks like Governor sock puppet got the horse head dropped in his bed by his public union masters and the Union County kingmakers.

Nobody buying gasoline, nobody going to work, nobody doing no anything, means no tax revenue means no public employees, means the starvation of the public union money laundering cash cow.

And I suspect that very soon Governor Paygrade is going to need the money for all the lawsuits about to fly his way.

[FlipWilson]

Yeah, my lefty neighbor was crowing about how Trump has NO power to make the states open up.

I replied, “ follow the money and fear the veto pen.”

[1Old Pro]

New York Governor hasn’t offered ANY plan at all. He just complains he needs money and tests from Trump. What a lower, he doesn’t even have a plan to distinguish downstate from upstate - a friggin moron could do better.