Gov. Lamont orders workers at 'non-essential' businesses to stay home during coronavirus outbreak

[VMA131Marine]

Source: Hartford Courant

Gov. Ned Lamont will order all workers at “non-essential” businesses to stay home during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, he announced Friday.
Grocery stores, pharmacies, banks, gas stations and other necessary businesses will be allowed to remain open. Restaurants will still be able to provide takeout services.

Read more: https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-update-0320-20200320-m5oro7ss3vb3nlqsormcmt6nty-story.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. Is this the 4th state to issue stay at home order?

CA, NY, IL and now CT. When will the country shut down? We have to do it, sooner is much better than latter. Test every American and do social contacting research on each negative test.

[dem4decades]

2. I'm expecting MA, RI and NJ to follow suit.

[paleotn]

5. VT, ME and NH as well.....

Cuomo want's it at least regional. It won't work unless it is. Otherwise, it will brew in neighboring states.

[Snellius]

6. Much of MA is already on lockdown.

Here on the Cape it's been like that since Tuesday and even where Obama has a new home on Martha's Vineyard, which imagined it was safe is going to cancel some ferries to help keep summer-residents and tourists away. Only Nantucket, further out to sea, may be immune. No place is safe. The China strategy of mandatory checkpoints is the only one that seems to work.

[VMA131Marine]

3. PA ordered all non life sustaining businesses closed yesterday

[TNNurse]

4. People in places where it is not as bad may not be getting it.

Shut it all down, it will be for the best in the long run. I do not underestimate the hardship this will cause, but it seems the only way to control the spread to everyone.

[Snellius]

7. Better drastic measures now than desperate measures later.

[paleotn]

8. Exactly.

Because where it isn't bad yet, it soon will be.

[brooklynite]

9. NY-NJ-CT have been working in tandem...