North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has instituted a curfew of sorts for all North Carolinians between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. to stop the spread of COVID-19. The curfew goes into effect on Friday, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m.
If you’re having trouble understanding this latest edict number 181 from Cooper you’re not alone.
Social media lit up with comments like this: “I didn’t realize the virus magically starts infecting people at 10 p.m., but then stops as soon as we get to 5 a.m. What a relief! I’m all for common sense measures, including closing businesses where the virus is likely to spread, but this is government overreach.” From Ryan Rackliffe.
According to the executive order, restaurants have to close at 10 p.m. and restaurants and bars have to stop serving alcohol at 9 p.m. For bars it may not make much difference since they can only serve people outside, and being outside in the summer when bars had to be closed is one thing, but drinking outside when it’s 25 degrees is another.
But even internally the executive order is hard to understand. Restaurants have to be closed at 10 p.m. and people are supposed to be home at 10 p.m. Since most people are not actually going to read the executive order they may not realize that traveling home from a restaurant after 10 p.m. is permitted. But then again who wants to be stopped by law enforcement on the way home from a restaurant after having a couple of glasses of wine and have to explain that driving home from a restaurant is a permitted activity.
Also, collegiate and professional sporting events get a pass on the whole curfew. People attending one of those events can stay out as late as the sporting event lasts, but amateur sporting events other than collegiate events don’t get a pass.
Grocery stores, drug stores, gas stations, take-out and delivery food establishments are also exempt. So if you decide at midnight to go top off your tank, or pickup some takeout that is permissible.
Also worth noting, “the media” has a complete and total exemption from the curfew order.
So many exceptions it is nonenforceable scare tactics. It will lead to more private house parties and get together.
Record violent crime and abuse is the result when you criminalize movement and shutter businesses. ACC and pro athletes are exempt why? Is it impossible to spread covid while on TV? We have seen Cooper and Mandy Cohen demonstrate how if marching with rioters or hiding just off camera they don’t even follow their own orders. What are we doing to protect elderly? Nothing.
Cooper falling in line!!!!
Again, is anyone surprised by any of this nonsense?
And again I challenge any sycophant of Duke Cooper and his “scientific” based directives to explain the “science” behind all this pablum……..waiting……..waiting…….waiting…….thought so.
As for drinking outside at 25 degrees John, I have two words for you……Irish Coffee 🙂
Wow, how lucky for us we have such a science wizard as our governor. Us simple and ignorant peasants evidently don’t deserve to have him explain the phenomena that triggers this cootie virus at precisely 10PM and recalls it back to it’s hive at 5AM. My daughter, in the medical field, has a sign to put in her car window Nazi style so she can drive during these most dangerous of infectious night hours deemed by Cooper as dripping with virus. Is the sign to protect her against the virus or the police she is on a mission of mercy and not to round her up with the scofflaw dog walkers, star gazers and smokers? Please Oh Knowledgeable, Great and Scientific Governor. Enlighten your poor and huddled (inside, distanced with mask) children. We now fear the dark and look to you for guidance,
Milady,
I bow to you as a sign of admiration and respect for that post.
it was truly a materful piece of work
Ditto.
Give me a break we’ve had enough of Government takeover..
Cooper is a disaster to NC he has rule this or that just on a whim, how did this loser get re-elected, unbelievable how this governor can shut down our bars, restaurants, but the big $$ stores, take out, gas stations are exempt give me a break. Who makes up these type of rules, it’s crazy how democrats who run these cities continue to want ur cities shut down!
So we are all here presenting our opinions to everyone — I think that makes all of us “media” — so we are free to do as we wish!
Wadayathink?
It is non-enforceable because it is a violation of Constitutional rights and the governor does not have the authority!
Are elected officials exempt from the curfew? I’m sure the leader of the overlords of the Guilford County Commissioners have important activities to follow between 10:00PM and 5:00AM.
Local governments are exempt.
Cooper is not the only one doing this order, several Democrat states already have this nonsense in play. I think this is the most asinine statement yet. The virus, if as bad as you claim, certainly doesn’t have an hourly timetable. Walmart gets richer and small businesses and restaurants go under. But who pays the most taxes in our state, yes you got it, Wally World. I agree with previous post, I don’t know how cooper got re-elected in this state. We would already be shut down if the revenue wasn’t in the shape it currently is in.