So the county has implemented a stay at home order:
Leaders ask you to stay at home unless you are considered an essential employee, shopping for essential services for goods or exercising outside.
I’ve read the whole order which is a PDF which I cannot swipe and paste, so pardon me for embedding screenshots instead of text.
Here’s the order:
Sounds grim. You can only go to an essential business for essential activities.
Essential activities are:
Basically, you can only go to essential businesses if you need their goods or services.
What are essential businesses?
Grocery stores, liquor stores, pharmacies, auto garages, construction/home repair, taxis/people movers, laundromats, Lowes, banks, hotels, call centers, doctor’s offices, and vet’s offices.
You know, it might have been clearer if they said what should close.
Which is apparently schools, gyms, martial arts schools, and ABC Books.
So it’s not exactly martial law.
It is a sad commentary, though, at how few places I go that are not essential.
As I was at a doctor’s office today discussing it with the non-doctor person who was setting me up, basically this means you can go about your business, but you should probably not go about it today as everyone takes care of their essential business before the essential businesses don’t exactly close.
“Brian J., does that mean you’re going out every day?” you might ask. You know what I ask, gentle reader? Why are your questions sometimes in italics and sometimes in quotation marks. Don’t you have a style guide? But my answer to your question is of course not. We will run out once or twice a week for essentials, that is, perishables and booze and to tend to whatever my mother-in-law needs. But we’re not going to panic.
