The deputy did tell me this morning that I am not the first business that he has served an order to comply from the health department. Also not the last because once he left me, he had another business to serve. If anyone knows of these other businesses in St. Mary's that has been served by the health department concerning this Chinese crap, let me know. I may need to form a coalition...
Sounds like the people who normally try and buy underage are now doing mask surveys. Might not even be a citizen complaint.
The Cadet program members?Sounds like the people who normally try and buy underage are now doing mask surveys. Might not even be a citizen complaint.
Now that is interesting. Let me know if you have further info on this. I won’t disclose how I got the intel.
The Cadet program members?
Nothing further, just a guess. I think waiting for citizen complaints might be less proactive than gubmint wants to be.
I think thats who normally does that job, right?
Sheriff's deputy delivered the official order to me this morning from Dr. Brewster ordering me to come into compliance or else...
I've got 3 days.
Or what?
Your permanent record?
First, look at the definitions. The "catastrophic health emergency" means a situation in which extensive loss of life or serious disability is threatened imminently because of exposure to a deadly agent. Given that Maryland has a population of 6,045,680 people and is showing 3,685 deaths that equates to .06095%. While any death is tragic, is that what anyone would consider extensive?
I certainly don't see where there is authority to mandate masks be worn by all.
This might be in the weeds for some but the authority of the Governor to issue his mandates does not seem to be contained in the law (attached text file is the actual law).
The neck gaiter (No. 11 in the photo below), which was made of polyester spandex material, performed the worst in the study, actually producing more particles than speaking with no face covering at all.
A bandana tied to cover the nose and mouth only offered slightly more protection than no mask at filtering particles.
- Delegation of Authority to County Health Officers. If an Authorized Health Official determines that a business, organization, establishment, facility, or construction site in his/her political subdivision (an “Unsafe Facility”) is unable or unwilling to operate in a manner that does not pose an unreasonable risk of exacerbating the spread of COVID-19 (including, without limitation, as a result of non-compliance with Social Distancing Guidance), the Authorized Health Official is hereby authorized and directed to issue such orders as may be necessary to:
The more I read, the more frustrated I become over all this. We need to be asking more questions of our government officials that continue to put their boots on our necks.
and people will not keep there damn hands off the mask ...
He's got a point.If you are going to fight it then you need to stick to the legality of the order.
For every study you find that says that masks are not effective you will find 10 that says they expect that masks are effective.
I have seen several that refute that neck gaiters makes things worse.
A farmer/hardware store owner will be easily dismissed and written off.
She has deemed our business unsafe because we do not have a sign posted on our door stating face masks required and I am not requiring my employees to wear them.
So what are you going to do, TPD?Dr. Brewster and a sheriff's deputy visited my store today. Since I have not made the changes she ordered me to do yesterday, she will probably close our business tomorrow. She has deemed our business unsafe because we do not have a sign posted on our door stating face masks required and I am not requiring my employees to wear them. Otherwise, we meet the parameters - hand sanitizer, cleaning, distancing, capacity controls, etc.
She could not cite any scientific studies proving face masks work other than to point me to the St. Mary's County Health Department website. So far, I see no studies on that website. She could not explain inconsistencies in what the CDC recommends, what the Governor's executive order states, or what her more stringent orders to comply are. All she could say was to contact the governor with my concerns about his executive order.
Though she and the deputy both wore masks, they did not social distance, and I had too many other things to ask to even mention to them about not distancing. I did keep my distance from them.