Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday, June 24, that not only will the state not move into Phase 3 on Friday, June 26 as planned, but he is imposing more restrictions on the people of North Carolina.
The plan was for the state to move into Phase 3 of the already painfully slow reopening process on Friday, but Cooper said that it would be July 17 before the Phase 3 went into effect and, by the way, everyone in North Carolina has to start wearing masks on Friday, June 26. So not fewer restrictions, but more restrictions are going into effect Friday at 5 p.m.
Cooper also said that it is the responsibility of businesses to enforce the mask requirement and if businesses don’t enforce it they can receive citations.
Evidently from what Cooper said at the press conference, an individual cannot be cited for not wearing a mask. He said that if a person not wearing a mask refused to leave a business, that person could be charged with trespassing.
In his remarks, Cooper also said that people protesting should wear masks when there are numerous photos of Cooper not wearing a mask when with protestors in Raleigh.
Not everyone was pleased with Cooper’s decision to continue to lock down the economy of the state. President Pro Tem Sen. Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) in a press release said, “In Roy Cooper’s North Carolina, the Governor can walk with a group of protestors with no mask on, but you can’t take your son or daughter to a playground.
“Rioters can break windows and set fires with impunity, but you can’t exercise on an elliptical machine.
“We’re assured that masses of mask-less people gathered together in the streets caused no rise in cases, yet we’re now all required to wear masks because the danger is too great.
“The inconsistencies and hypocrisy continue to eat away at the trust in and credibility of this administration.”
Roy Cooper in a nutshell:
Wear a mask, except for me. No phase 3. Stay home forever. Except for protests I agree with. No bars or gyms, but go to breweries and massage parlors.
Nonsensical fool, but the question for November can be summed up by Obi Wan Kenobi:
Who is the fool? The fool, or the ones who follow him?
Cooper is a buffoon.
Amen !
Pre’parer la guillotine!
Ave Emperor Cooper…Ave Emperor Cooper…Ave Emperor Cooper
(That sound more PC the Hail Herr Von Cooper)
Do as I say, not as I do. Hypocraposity 101.
These decrees are not laws, and are not enforceable. Besides, it appears the GPD is allowed to enforce none but a few selected laws, and only with the appropriate perp. If the legislature wants to put these measures into place, they must sign off on it.
Maybe we could live in Japan for a while to see what it like to march instep.
Crumble the Coop
Is this a law? Can the Governor make a law? Nope! I will not comply They cannot tell us what to eat, what to say, what to wear, etc. its time to stand your ground. Walk into an establishment and if they say you need a mask tell them you have a medical condition that prohibits you from wearing one. You do not have to disclose what your medial is. If they still ask you to leave then it’s discrimination. This is easy to beat.
A study by the New England Journal of Medicine – Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era May 21,2020.
“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
How dare you contradict Emperor Cooper with facts from medical experts. You Sir are dangerous, free thinking, fact finding radical that is a danger to the ability of Emperor Cooper and his glorious minions to control his subjects!
to the stake with the heretic!!!
(snark off)
Disgusting. Polite words fail me.