Eager to reopen, local officials across Pennsylvania are set to defy Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to cautiously ease coronavirus restrictions.
The governor has outlined a phased reopening plan, complete with a color-coded readiness chart. Wolf announced Friday that 24 more counties have qualified as “yellow,” meaning they can partially reopen Friday, while extending stay-at-home orders for the remaining “red” counties until early June.
Some local officials don’t agree with the tiered strategy, though. They plan to use their power to proceed with their own reopening plans, despite the fact that Pennsylvania confirmed 1,323 new coronavirus cases in a single day on Friday.
Lebanon County officials and some Republican lawmakers, including state Sen. Dave Arnold and Reps. Russ Diamond, Frank Ryan and Sue Helm, delivered a letter Friday to the Democratic governor informing him of their plans.
“Lebanon County has met the requirement of your original Stay-at-Home Order, which was to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak and allow hospitals the time to gear up for COVID-19 patients being admitted to the ICU and in need of ventilators,” the letter reads.
“We have heard the pleas of our residents who desire the ability to safely re-open their businesses and safely return to work. Lebanon County plans to move forward and will require businesses who are ready to re-open to follow CDC guidelines including requirements such as hand washing, social distancing, and masks until further guidance is received for the county to move to the Green Phase.”
Lebanon’s district attorney posted a statement on Facebook, declaring that she will not prosecute businesses that open as long as they comply with appropriate restrictions.
Lebanon, located midway between Harrisburg and Reading, is not alone in its plan.
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office posted a letter to Facebook that declares that the office “will not be enforcing any ‘order’ that violates our Constitutional Rights.”
“I have no intentions in turning local business owners into criminals,” Sheriff Ronny Anderson said, according to the post.
Jeff Haste, who chairs the Dauphin County Board of Commissioners, issued a similar letter, saying, “Enough is enough. It is time to reopen the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and return our state to the people (as prescribed by our Constitution) and not run it as a dictatorship.”
“Allow our businesses and communities to reopen. For centuries, our people and businesses have shown they can adapt to changes to survive and prosper.”
The full letter can be read here.
The remaining “red” counties have petitioned the governor to upgrade their counties to “yellow,” arguing that they have met the conditions for ending the stay-at-home order. Wolf said he plans to upgrade an additional 13 counties on May 15, barring any setbacks in controlling the virus.
Wolf has stressed voluntary compliance with the orders.
As of Friday, Pennsylvania had 52,915 confirmed cases, with 3,416 deaths.
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Bloody fucking hell!! I can’t unsee that!! Fucking freak is up there thinking about all the people that beat it up in high school. You gonna expect a clear head from this abomination?
Bolsheviks come in all shapes of degeneracy.
Governor Wolf is the worst governor in Pa. history…..go go go sheriffs and county commissioners……
State government in PA an embarrassment to the rest of the country….
That previous “honor” belonged to “Fast Eddie” Rendell. But just as Obama supplanted Jimmy Carter, there’s always a bigger Democrat a-hole waiting in the wings.
That picture….
40 years ago some ugly dude in drag would have been a monty python skit… and funny.
Now there are no laughs and my eyes need bleach after seeing that.
I’m sure there are other heinous Pennsylvanians that could be pictured here instead of this freakshow. Come on now. Its bad enough we have regular images of Pelosi and Hillary that we have to stomach.
The ones who stand by and allow these abominations are worse than the degenerates themselves.
Shit, I thought we had it bad in NY, with Mario Jr. nipper pierce-er, but you guys in PA, you got it worse than any other state in the union. I suggest you storm your Capitol, and burn it to the ground, and then pour some more gas on it, to burn it a 2nd time, just to be sure.
One must make sure to wear a mask…..and blinders…
At what point do these people feel at least a little embarrassed?!
It was another fella from PA that also had “color coded charts” w the Shrub.
The face of mental illness. And to make matters worse, this sick twisted mind is determining the fate of others.
PA has a jogger problem.
Richard Levine saw his penis…. Six more weeks of Quarantine. Welcome to Pennsyltucky.
Fucking freak. I don’t think he saw his penis, I think he couldn’t see his penis, or his fucking balls. We as ‘Mericans deserve this bullshit for believing what we be told….
Let me go ahead and make Hardscrabble’s comment:
Physiognomy is real. Lookit that face.
This is just buying time. PA is still lost but Gov D-Bag and his pet tranny pushed the plebes a little too far.
One can still kill their unborn child and get it sucked out as a life sustaining necessity but replacing a degenerated knee or hip is verboten. In a state with plenty of blue hairs needing hips or knees that is a very bad move.
Also, no haircuts since mid-march. Clearly Gov D-bag and his pet Tranny have been getting coiffed. Women who haven’t been trimmed or colored in more than 2 months notice that. “Lockdown for thee but not for me” is a really bad idea.
Lastly, the real statistics have been leaking out making it clear to all that for 99.7% of those who do contract WuFlu it is merely an inconvenience. It is wreaking havoc on the exact same groups that are vulnerable to influenza and time. 2 of 3 deaths are in nursing homes.
The speaker of the state house release this information last week.
I think it’s gonna be a long time before Pennsylvanian’s ever elect another Democrat Guv. As for sheriffs, I dunno what they can do. They provide courthouse security and run the jail, they aren’t on the street enforcing laws, that’s the job of local cops.