Speaking with Chris Wallace, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer finally admitted that some of her orders were authoritarian. She didn’t use authoritarian, but that’s what she meant to say:
WHITMER: “You know, there were moments where, you know, we had to make some decisions that in retrospect don’t make a lot of sense, right? If you went into the hardware store, you could go to the hardware store, but we didn’t want people all congregating around the gardening supplies. People say, ‘Oh, she’s outlawed seeds.’ It was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway. But that being said, you know, some of those policies I look back and think maybe it what was a little — a little more than what we needed to do.”
Good point, Peter. On April 24, 2020, Bridge Michigan reported that the restrictions would be lifted on April 9th.
The revised order allows any store that sells non-essential items to reopen for curbside pickup and product delivery. Big box stores can reopen paint, flooring and gardening sections that Whitmer had ordered closed on April 9.
Garden stores, nurseries, lawn care, pest control and landscaping companies that reopen must enforce social-distancing rules, and any businesses with in-person workers must provide employees with non-medical grade face masks.
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