New Jersey's Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Monday that restaurants across the state could reopen for indoor dining at one-quarter capacity, effective on Friday.
New Jersey is the last state to reopen indoor dining areas in some capacity after the practice was shut down in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
"Reopening responsibly will help us restore one of our state’s key industries while continuing to make progress against #COVID19," Murphy wrote on Twitter.
More than 190,000 people in New Jersey have reported cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak began, and more than 14,000 have died there. The state has seen its rate of new cases largely flatten after a spike in the late spring saw thousands of new cases being reported every day for weeks.
Murphy originally planned to allow indoor dining to resume in early July but halted those plans after other states reported spikes in new COVID-19 cases after reopening restaurants for indoor dining.
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Idiot. What restaurant can profit at 25%. Better off to remain at take out posture. Democrats are so freaking stupid.
ReplyDeleteOne cannot restore an industry that has been obliterated by mean communist statutes.
ReplyDeleteBut schools can open right on up. This is a hot mess.
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: Another Marxist democrat enjoying his new found ability to control the lives of his citizens. A condition that he will not voluntarily relinquish, pandemic or not. What irritates me is seeing the good little “useful idiots” who go along with the dictates of a power hungry governor without any question or resistance.
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