Posted on 05/14/2020 5:31:38 PM PDT by Libloather
Retail and pet grooming businesses could be among those that are able to reopen by the end of the month, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said during a Thursday, May 14 video interview with MLive.
If the number of new cases of COVID-19 continues to decline over the next two weeks, the governor said retail will “probably be in the next phase,” which she hopes Michigan will enter into after the current stay-home order expires at 11:59 p.m. May 28.
“If we continue to see our testing go up and our positive cases continue to decline, that would be something that would make sense in the next phase,” Whitmer said.
“But it also has to be done with the appropriate protocols, meaning wearing masks, meaning keeping crowds down so people can remain six feet apart. All of these are actions that employers and business owners are going to need to deploy in their workplaces.”
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Meegan Holland, vice president of communications and marketing for the Michigan Retailers Association, said she’s hearing daily from retailers that they need to be open before Memorial Day Weekend (May 23-24).
“So many shop owners have seen their customers driven to shop online, which does little for the Michigan economy,” Holland said. “It’s been a very discouraging time, so it would be a huge boost to reopen for the holiday weekend.”
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I’d suggest that the Governator’s office be shutdown and Whitless grounded for the [shorter] duration.
She is wicked, no way around it. I hope the Leftists out of work in Michigan are happy with themselves.
When all those retail shops begin opening in civil disobedience, does poseur Whitler have enough Gestapo to shut them all down?
There will be thousands.
It’s amazing that all of the politicians and “medical experts” wear out the words “probably”, “might”, “could”, “possibly”, etc. They don’t know anything for sure, everything is a bit butt covering SWAG with them.
Businesses in Michigan need to just open - DO IT!!
...for some reason it’s triggering a memory.
I remember as a kid (13? had a little attitude) in school, we had this obvious (looking back) lefty teacher that wrote “When God made man SHE made a mistake” on the board. Upon leaving the room for a moment I changed it to say “When God made women HE made a mistake”. When she came back she didn’t notice at first, snickers around the room. Then she saw it and exploded, “WHO DID THIS?”. Oh, did it p*ss her off :)
To my surprise nobody said a word. Of course now the threats came, “OK, you will all stay here through break then!!”. She would NOT ALLOW IT! Still(!) - nobody ratted on me, impressive! So, as I didn’t want the whole class to get punished, I stood up and said, “me, I did it, and what are you going to do about it?” - said as a direct challenge.
You could see the gears turning. If I went to the principals office and told them it might not go so well for her. She just stormed out of the room, class dismissed!! I think everyone was as shocked as I was!
I suppose it is the “GO AHEAD, I’M CALLING YOUR BLUFF” aspect, seems like we’re in that position with businesses in Michigan. DO IT!
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