Though Curve Is Flattening, Pa Imposes More Onerous Restrictions on Workers and Customers

This is the face of Pa. health?

The number of new Covid-19 cases has been dropping across the state for the past several days. Resentment is growing among the public over Governor Tom Wolf's business shutdown. His unemployment office has been as slow as a glacier in processing 1.3 million unemployment compensation claims. To date, his bureaucracy has failed to even establish an application process for the self-employed and gig workers. But instead of devoting resources to helping people who have been negatively impacted, Governor Wolf has doubled down. His Health Secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, has just issued an edict that will make it even more difficult for life-sustaining businesses to operate. Of course, this is all for our own good.

Now businesses must do the following:

1) Stagger start and quit times to keep employees apart;
2) Provide break spaces for employees in which they are 6' apart;
3) Stagger those break times, too;
4) Limit the number of employees allowed in a break or locker room;
5) Training must be done virtually as much as possible;
6) Employees must be masked unless they are trying to eat something;
7) Have employees on hand to enforce all the frickin' rules;
8) All "nonessential" visitors banned (no word on whether they can be shot on sight);
9) Make sure these rules are all communicated in several languages (I recommend Russian);
10) Business with the unwashed masses by appointment only, unless impractical, in which case you are required to do everything you can to make them feel unwelcome. It's their fault for not being wealthy enough to afford Doordash and other delivery services;
11) Set aside a specific time for the Boomers to shop so they can scarf up all the frickin' toilet paper.
12) Make the unwashed masses wear masks, too.
13) Everyone has to wash their hands once an hour.

This is simply nuts. This order becomes effective April 19. It's time to rein Dr. Levine and Governor Wolf in.