Wolf tightens Pa. mask-wearing order, saying they are now required outdoors, effective immediately

Pennlive ^ | 1 July A.D. 2020 | David Wenner

[campaignPete R-CT]

OLF! OLF! OLF!

[P.O.E.]

state and local officials, law enforcement and others tasked with educating people who don’t comply with the order,

Citizen's arrest?

[Pravious]

The heat is increasing over Pennsylvania’s abysmal distinction of having the nation’s highest percentage of COVID deaths occurring in nursing homes—68%

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Wow. I didn’t know that. I’m assuming you mean 68% of the total COVID deaths in PA occur in nursing homes and not that 68% of the people in nursing homes have died.

[P.O.E.]

if we want to maintain the freedoms we have in place

I'll take "things a dictator would say" for $100.

[timestax]

Uh Oh..More political POWER GRABS. Gotta grab that power..AND KEEP IT!Right Governors ?

[RightGeek]

Not "Rachel" Levine again!

[timestax]

The more people acquiesce the more they tighten the screws.

Ain't THAT the truth.

[lightman]

[alstewartfan]

Friends call Levine “Richard-less” Levine.

[alstewartfan]

Magnify fear and accrue POWER.

[PhillyPhreeper]

It;s not a law and he does not have the authority to enforce his wishes. The law cited was primarily established to control the spread of Syphilis. It addresses several other issues but masks is not one of them. The authority the state government has is limited to taking over a local government's disease control program if it is deemed harmful. See following Excerpt:

If the secretary finds that the disease control program carried out by any local board or department of health is so inadequate that it constitutes a menace to the health of the people within or without the municipalities served by the local board or department of health, he may appoint agents of the department to supervise or to carryout the disease control program of the particular local board or department of health until he determines that the menace to the health of the people no longer exists and that the local board or department of heal this able to carryout an adequate disease control program.

Link is https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/PDF/1955/0/0500..PDF

[CharlesWayneCT]

This will probably surprise some in the media, who spent the last week insisting that all the states with increasing numbers were republican-run states.

[Sicon]

two practices that must be adhered to if we want to maintain the freedoms we have in place under our reopening.”

Ah, so Wolf and his health director are now the arbiters of our freedom? I guess we can just toss the Constitution then...

These people really need to be tarred and feathered.

[lightman]

Universal testing of PA nursing homes taking place now, accounting for most of the “new cases”. Also a big bubble at the Dauphin County Prison.

[conservative98]

...when it’s impossible to consistently stay at least six feet away from people who aren’t members of the same household

[lightman]

Yup.

And likewise “a physical or MENTAL condition” preventing use.

Those are loopholes bigger than the elastic thingies that fit around your ears when you don a muzzle.

Of course most of the media outlets are only reporting “masks must be worn outside the house”.

[Sicon]

“15 days to flatten the curve...”

... and the rest of your life to have a******s like this guy telling you what your rights are, according to him and his tranny health secretary.

[zaxtres]

God made all of God’s creatures, big and small. God gave us COVID-19. Oh wait, was that the Chinese?

I am all for Mask Burnings just like the old time and much celebrated Bra Burnings of yesteryore.ng

#Maskburningparty should now trend - everywhere!

[zaxtres]

Hell noes, we won’t cover our mouth and nose!

Hell noes, we won’t cover our mouth and nose!

Hell noes, we won’t cover our mouth and nose!

[NTHockey]

Memo to Tom Wolf:
You order everyone to wear masks outside. Well, to paraphrase the racist founder of the Democratic Party: You made your decision. Now try to enforce it.

Perhaps Delaware State Police can stop PA residents coming to shop in DE to avoid paying sales tax.