BREAKING: Gov. Ducey closes all bars, gyms, movie theaters for 30 days
Source: KOLD TV (Tucson)
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has ordered all bars, nightclubs, gyms, movie theaters and water parks to close for 30 days due to the spike in COVID-19 cases.
The start of school was pushed back to Aug. 17, but Ducey said that could change again if the virus spreads more.
Ducey made the announcement during a news conference Monday, June 29. The executive order goes into effect at 8 p.m. Monday.
This will help relieve stress on our health care system and give time for new transmissions to slow, Ducey tweeted out.
Read more: https://www.kold.com/2020/06/29/breaking-gov-ducey-closes-all-bars-gyms-movie-theaters-close-days/
Zeus69
(391 posts)promoting fear over the economy!!
(Oh wait...)
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)once.
dem4evah
(75 posts)it's kind of a shit show now. Thanks RWNJ's...Ducey included. This door jam was all IN on the Crazy Trump Train as recently as late May. Now?
patphil
(6,169 posts)We get too soon old, and too late smart.
progree
(10,901 posts)"Ducey also said outdoor gatherings of 50 people or more are banned."
Wondering what the difference between a bar serving food and a restaurant serving alcohol will be.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)51% or more from alcohol you're a bar and are closed
less you are a resturant and can operate at reduced capacity
Arizona probably has similar laws
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Better close the barn door!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Not so much, I take it?
Somebody's going to get a nasty tweet from trumpleThinSkin (the horror).
dem4evah
(75 posts)foreskin, but yeah....what you said.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)capacity today, before this has any effect.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)progree
(10,901 posts)See the little graphs of the 50 states.
By default they are on a per-capita basis so that states can be compared fairly
"All charts are shown on the same scale. "
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Click on any state's graph to bring up larger graphs and stats for that state, e.g. Arizona
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/arizona-coronavirus-cases.html
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)months too late..................
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regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...all these Republican governors who, after making a big point about "re-opening," are now very quietly and diplomatically "re-closing," making sure to phrase it in ways that allow them to deny they're doing so, just "making a small adjustment" to their re-opening plan?
Initech
(100,065 posts)We did too little too late and it may not stop until 70% of the country is infected with this thing. It's gonna get worse.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...according to the metrics from the COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning model, we're looking at 1,710,507 Americans dead.
We should never have ended the (first ?) lockdown until we had the testing and contact-tracing measures in charge to quickly contain any new outbreak.
To be clear, while I blame Trump and Republican governors first and foremost, I don't exempt Democratic governors from criticism, either. Too many of them (and I include Newsom in California and Inslee here in Washington) set loose metrics that allowed their states to move into reopening once numbers of cases dropped, but didn't require enough in place for testing/contact-tracing. So they, too, reopened before they were ready...and are now seeing the increase in cases we feared without measures to keep it under control.
And, while a second lockdown until we can really get testing/contact-tracing in place nationwide would be the most logical step, I'm near-certain it won't happen. As Chris Hayes pointed out a few days ago, the whole point of the lockdown (which was sure to crash the economy at least temporarily) was to buy us time for the proper testing/contact-tracing measures to be enacted. Now, we're right back at square one, but with the economy already in a severe recession. A second lockdown is going to make that much, much worse (enact one nationwide, and watch the Dow drop to 15,000 and unemployment shoot up beyond 30%), and we know the Republicans in charge will never allow that, or be willing to enact the public-welfare measures needed to even partially cushion the blow. So, most likely, we'll keep seeing these band-aid approaches, where areas of public and economic life will be dialed back for a time until the numbers stop dropping, but without calling it a lockdown or actually telling most non-essential businesses to close (note the closing of bars but not restaurants in this case) or people to stay home. And we all know what half-measures do: just keep us on this roller-coaster indefinitely (or at least until a reliable vaccine is out and enough of the population has been inoculated), at continuing cost to human life. But "FREEEEEEDUMB!!!"...
Initech
(100,065 posts)And the fucking idiots are the ones who refuse to wear masks and take all the necessary precautions are the ones who are making it worse and will continue to make it worse. The bad thing is that I wish we had a competent president who would lead us through all of this. But I'm afraid that by the time Biden takes office it may be too late to stop the number of dead from getting worse.
This wasn't just a mere pandemic. This is like a real life Skynet - its' arrival was most likely equal parts inevitable preventable, but by unleashing it, it could spell some serious doom for a long time. It will take a lot to fix it, too.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Bars (indoor), restaurants (indoor), mass gatherings are out.
Businesses provide PPE for their employees exposed to the public, or in workplaces where employees are exposed to others.
Adequate testing capacity, and most importantly . . contact tracing capacity.
Dedicated COVID wards/isolation units for those that desire to stay away from family during the critical two-week shedding period.
And the simplest part, everyone wear a mask when exposed to others indoors.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I'll probably have half of Flagstaff driving by on the highway into Cortez by the weekend.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Cortez.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)I was in Flagstaff last Saturday and almost everyone I saw was wearing masks. But what would really matter would be the previous week or two.
As for the rest of the state, we have very low mask compliance but I have seen a huge improvement in the past week.
JI7
(89,247 posts)wackadoo wabbit
(1,166 posts)He's left it up to the individual cities and counties to mandate masks, if they wish.
marlakay
(11,451 posts)Starting Wednesday. I have been on a local thread where I was one of a few ok with it, most were going nuts.
You cant even share info from scientists or doctors because they seem to have articles going against wearing them. I wonder if they are real or who these people are endangering peoples lives.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)And I found it doesn't matter to them. Anything that confirms what they want to believe is the truth.
And now the right-wing, Trump-loving governor has the problem of getting them in line after months of convincing them that wearing a mask is in a pandemic is an un-American endorsement of Satan.
Thekaspervote
(32,757 posts)Or who knows??
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)will just ignore it. Control of a pandemic relies on discipline and self-control. 2 qualities severely lacking in US culture and made worse by a Govt under trump's indifference and incompetence.