*BREAKING – JULY 1* – Wolf Now Requires Masks in ALL Public Places
After spending months waffling on the issue of face masks in public, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf went full-Karen on Thursday.
Wolf issued a press release clearly defining Pennsylvania’s mask policy once and for … all?
In his statement, Karen Wolf says, “In yellow and green counties, it is required that masks are worn when visiting businesses to protect employees, employees’ families, and communities as a whole. Mask-wearing has proven to be an important deterrent to the spread of the virus, and as more counties move to green and more things reopen, we need to be vigilant in our efforts to continue our mitigation efforts.”
His statement then tries to back up his reasoning with alleged medical studies which he thinks prove him right.
Honestly, who cares?
Wolf’s made it very clear in recent weeks that he believes he’s the sole voice – the lone Wolf, if you will – who will guide Pennsylvania from the coronavirus disaster largely of his own making.
If he wanted to cite two people down the hall from his office or his goldfish, there’s literally nothing anyone else can do right now.
So, rather than try to win everyone over with his argument on masks, just say it’s an order and be done with it. We should implement a carbon tax on all the hot air coming out of his mouth the last several months. It’d solve the budget crisis.
Instead, as Wolf noted earlier this week, not following this mask order could get you cited and fined.
Last week, Wolf sounded pretty convinced masks weren’t even required. Then, earlier this week, he said they were. Now, he’s double sure it is and spent the balance of this week discussing them.
[faq p=14800]
CHECK OUT OUR PREVIOUS COVERAGE OF THE FACE MASK ISSUE HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA:
Local Dept. of Memes on Mask Policy in PA – One Week This, Next Week That
Now, Wolf Kinda Says Masks are Required in Pennsylvania
Wolf on Mask Requirement for Businesses – “They’re Not Required.”
Are Masks Really Mandatory in Pennsylvania? Probably Maybe
PA Opens a Coronavirus Snitch Line for Social Distance Warriors
Subscribe to Coal Region Canary
Get email updates from Coal Region Canary by becoming a subscriber today. Just enter your email address below to get started!Support Coal Region Canary
Like our reporting and want to support truly local news in Schuylkill County? Your small donations help. For as little as $5, your contribution will allow us to cover more news that directly affects you. Consider donating today by hitting the big yellow button below ...
PTFloridians
June 18, 2020 at 8:33 pm
Wuck Folf.
PTFloridians
June 18, 2020 at 8:35 pm
…he musta got a burst of estrogen through his veins from smelling Tricky Dick’s Dollar Tree perfume…
David Catherman
June 18, 2020 at 11:49 pm
Is it possible the wolf suffers from psychosis?
David W. Catherman, MAJ (Retired)
admin
June 19, 2020 at 12:25 am
Just like he’s “not a lawyer”, The Canary is not a doctor.
Alan Patton
June 19, 2020 at 2:09 pm
Under what legal order can Wolfe require masks be worn by customers in the ‘green’ phase? Originally, green meant deferring to CDC guidelines which say ‘recommended’.
Has Levine’s or Wolfe’s orders of April 20 been amended?
I’m thinking that a press release has no legal standing.
admin
June 19, 2020 at 2:40 pm
Just before the first counties started in the green phase, he updated all the rules for that phase. CDC guidelines turned into pretty restrictive PA DOH guidelines. And they still have no plans for post-green, which is terrifying. It’s his “new normal” life.
Alan Patton
June 19, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Thank you for your update. For all of his rhetoric about relying on ‘data’ and ‘science’ for all his decision making, where in all of recorded history has it been shown that imprisoning healthy people ever prevented a disease from spreading? Protect those most at risk (the elderly or already compromised-or at least leave them in the hospitals where they were) and allow the rest of the population to use its own common sense to protect itself and help them improve their own immune systems.
Those that govern least, govern best.
PTFloridians
June 19, 2020 at 4:29 pm
Thank you, Alex, for wise and insightful critique. NO WHERE in recorded history have we oppressed and imprisoned the healthy, because of a seasonal virus. This is unprunprecedented overreach by tyrannical dictators, all over the country, in lockstep, to cripple our freedoms and our President. They weaponize everything. His pressers and ever shifting edicts have no bearing on me, nor should they you. You are free to move about. If ANYONE asks you about a mask, tell em its a violation of your HIPPA privacy rights to ask you about your “mask issue”.
admin
June 19, 2020 at 5:50 pm
So, you’re suggesting that sending COVID-positive patients IN the nursing homes may have been a bad idea?
PTFloridians
June 19, 2020 at 6:13 pm
They all did it, in lockstep…all the power-drunk Lib Governors killed off tens of thousands of immune-compromised, vulnerable Americans. NY, NJ, CT, PA, MI, IL…terrible. In addition to that, they oppress the healthy. What madness.
Alan Patton
June 19, 2020 at 6:00 pm
No, I’m suggesting that sending those elderly at risk patients with documented weak immune systems AND positive coronavirus tests back to their
nursing homes to free up hospital beds for ‘potential’ cases was a really bad idea. Where did a majority of the PA virus deaths occur? This, to me, is evidence of radically flawed public policy.
admin
June 19, 2020 at 6:06 pm
We gotcha. Canary is a sarcastic bird. Yeah, at 70% of deaths linked to nursing homes, it’s pretty safe to say that decision may have gone sideways. Not sure what science and data led to that.
Alan Patton
June 19, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Thank you. I’m new to this site and admins sarcasms, but greatly appreciate both. And if one public policy decision made by the gov and DOH is so fatally flawed, can any other go unchallenged? Keep up the good work.
admin
June 19, 2020 at 7:20 pm
Always happy to get some new readership. Enjoy.
Mike
June 26, 2020 at 5:27 pm
Just listen to the president if we don’t test then you won’t have -19. Thank you for your leadership.
PTFloridians
June 26, 2020 at 7:17 pm
Seems like you’re about as sharp as a bowling ball…if Barack was still the emperor, I wonder if you’d feel the same way…