Saturday, April 24, 2021

How the Federal Covid Ban Rules Work Now (Under the Federal Guidelines)

 With the state pushed out of Covid ban-rules, one has to be careful over what you do....if the rate of infection is 100 or more.  So, some examples:

1.  Funerals: a max of thirty guests, period.  

2.  Private meetings in a household is limited to one guest.  It's written to mean not only within the house, or in the backyard.....but also at a city-park or wooded trail, or a bench by the river.

3.  Curfew (with the rate of 100 or more) is imposed at 10 PM.  Some exceptions are written.  Examples: if you are jogging, it's allowed from 10 PM to midnight.  If you were jogging and returning at 20 minutes past midnight, the cops could stop you and issue a summons.  

If you have a dog, he can be walked after 10 PM. 

If you were a news reporter, you are exempted, period.

If you were tending to a sick relative, you are exempted.

4.  Ordering of food to be delivered is still possible (up until 10 PM).  After 10 PM, in curfew, neither ordering or pick-up is possible.

5.  Use of any tourist operation (including hotels, camp-grounds, etc) is not possible when the incidence rate is 100 or more.

So, the odds now of court challenges?  Already yesterday....various lawyers were discussing the options, and there's probably over a thousand challenges set to occur next week (the first point where federal control is now exercised).  The odds that many or all of the new federal ban-rules will be 'dumped'?  I would suggest that the judges will ask where the authority was gained to determine the ban-rules. 

But getting some reaction over the ban-rules in the next thirty days?  I doubt that things would occur that quickly.  

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