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In his daily press briefing on Sunday, March 22, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton had signed a statewide “stay at home” order, essentially an order to shelter in place.

The order goes into effect Monday night (March 23) at 11:59 p.m. and will be in effect until 11:59 p.m. April 6.

Essential businesses are allowed to stay open, and those businesses have been determined based on a Homeland Security document identifying essential workers — health care and public health operations, human services operations, essential governmental functions and essential infrastructure, plus/including:

– Stores that sell groceries and medicine
– Food, beverage and licensed marijuana production and agriculture — this also includes businesses that care for animals, like animal shelters and rescues
– Organizations that provide charitable and social services — places that provide food, shelter and social services to those in need
– Religious entities — this includes wedding and funerals
– Media
– Gas stations and transportation-associated businesses
– Financial and insurance institutions (note: most banks have moved to a drive-thru-only model)
– Hardware and supply stores
– Critical trades (plumbers, electricians, HVAC, janitorial staff, painters, movers, etc.)
– Mail, post, shipping, logistics, delivery, pick-up
– Educational institutions, but this does not amend or change the previous school closure orders
– Laundry services
– Restaurants for consumption off-premises — this includes both in-house and third-party delivery, carry-out, drive-thru and curbside pick-up
– Supplies to work from home and supplies for essential business operations
– Transportation — this includes airlines, taxis, Uber/Lyft, marinas and more
– Home-based care and services
– Residential facilities and shelters
– Professional services (lawyers, accountants, real estate agents)
– Places that manufacture, distribute and supply critical products and industries
– Critical labor union functions
– Hotels and motels
– Funeral services

All people at the essential businesses must comply with social distancing requirements.

If you need to leave your home, you can leave for the following reasons:

– For health and safety
– For necessary supplies and services
– For outdoor activity
– For certain types of work (see above)
– To take care of others
– This order has also closed all places of public amusement.

2 replies on “These Essential Businesses Are Allowed to Stay Open After Ohio’s ‘Stay at Home’ Order Goes Into Effect Tonight”

  1. Grocery workers in other states are reporting that their suppliers are taking order requests but only filling what the government is allowing them to.

    This pandemic hysteria is a coordinated operation to crash our economy and bring in the new surveillance state with social credit scores, 24 hour tracking of all individuals using AI, AI precrime arrests, and of course, mandatory vaccines with digital tracking chips.

    And even though you are watching this 1984 policy set unfold in your own community, will you still be calling people who tell you this paranoid basement dwelling tin foil hat conspiracists while you’re in line to get your digital tattoo.

  2. Please stop. Stop, Dave. Stop, Dave. Please stop, Dave.

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