Governor Tate Reeves is holding a press conference right now. It is streamed below. Govenor Reeves issued a shelter in place order for Lauderdale County this morning. The press release is posted below as well.
Today, Governor Tate Reeves signed a new executive order establishing a shelter-in-place for Lauderdale County to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect the health of all Mississippians.
The Mississippi Department of Health identified Lauderdale County as the first localized region for additional restrictions, and Governor Reeves announced the shelter-in-place order for Lauderdale County at a press conference this morning. This follows the “Identify and Isolate” strategy that the state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, laid out at a press conference last week.
Mississippi is rapidly increasing testing and strictly enforcing quarantines for anyone that investigators believe has been exposed to the virus. Two-week shelter-in-place orders are a tool to allow health officials to flex resources to areas that carry special risk. The shelter-in-place will begin at 10:00 PM and be in effect through April 14, 2020.
You can view the Governor's full remarks at the press conference here.
"This is the first of many actions that will come as a result of our 'Identify and Isolate' strategy to protect Mississippi’s health care system from being overwhelmed. Keeping Mississippians healthy and safe while working to slow the spread remains our top priority. This order builds on the state’s other social distancing requirements to protect public health. Please stay home so we can all stay healthy," said Governor Tate Reeves of the executive order.
In this latest executive order, the Governor lays out the guidelines of the shelter-in-place to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Lauderdale County, including:
- Individuals are to stay at home except for the limited allowances in the executive order.
- When outside of their homes, people must follow social distancing guidelines by maintaining a 6-foot distance from others and avoid groups of 10 or more.
- Evictions are suspended, though people are still required to pay any rent or make any mortgage payments.
- All nonessential businesses are to stop all activities other than those necessary for minimum operations (e.g. payroll, health insurance, security) and enabling employees to work from home.
- Social and other non-essential gatherings in groups of more than 10 people must be cancelled or rescheduled.
- Restaurants and bars may only remain open for drive-thru, curbside, and/or delivery service.
- People may leave their homes only to perform essential activities, such as caring for someone in the vulnerable population, getting food or necessary supplies, and working for an essential business.
- Individual outdoor recreation is encouraged, but not group recreation or activities such as soccer or basketball games.
41 comments:
I plan to violate any/all lockdowns every f'ing day. Good luck catching me.
What's the difference from what everyone else is doing?
I wonder what sparked that. I know Lauderdale has a relatively high number of cases compared to population, but many people from surrounding counties (Newton, Kemper, Clarke, and Jasper as well as West Alabama) have little choice but to go to Meridian if they are really sick. Doesn't surprise me the number of positive tests is high if my understanding is correct that the test result follows the testing facility, not the residence of the patient.
The state’s command center of Butler Snow is still open everyday. Shocking......
Exactly @11:07! Those counties probably don’t have the necessary facilities that are equipped to treat that type of diagnosis. We’re just pissing in the wind!
They have a great many nursing homes
Present stats:
DeSoto County - 84 cases; 1 death
Hinds County - 90 cases
LAUDERDALE - 35 cases
Gez - can they not read numbers! Really, you don't see a cluster w/Hinds, Rankin and Madison; worse than Lauderdale.
@11:34, as was previously stated, folks from surrounding counties rely on the amenities of Meridian. People drive from places like Philadelphia and Newton for shopping and healthcare. The population threat and spread may be much larger than just Lauderdale County alone. This should keep folks from driving in and bringing it back home with them.
Why Lauderdale county and not counties that have large number of cases?
Does anyone know the name of the nursing home that supposedly has the outbreak?
This isn't that bad. Slow your roll.
Butler Snow has about 4 people in its office just to collect and send mail and similar functions. Staff and attorneys have been working at home for over a week.
Why aren't metro Jackson counties being put under a shelter-in-place order?
Its not that the testing facilities for all the surrounding counties is in Lauderdale; testing has been conducted in at least two of the adjoining counties over the past week.
Truth is , Lauderdale's 'reported' numbers don't reflect the on-the-ground situation. Somebody ain't been quite honest from the Queen City. Details will no doubt be forthcoming, but until then the Gov's/SHO's declaration speaks a lot.
Relative infection per capita in Madison and Rankin and Hinds much lower than Lauderdale. That's why those aren't shutting down.
@11:45 Because it's all about the rate. Lauderdale showed zero cases for about the first week and a half after MS got the first case.
But now they are catching up with great haste. Latest daily increase was 40%. Those are 'wildly out of control in a few days' type numbers.
Can’t wait til this virus takes out more of my work competition. I’m already profiting.
Lauderdale County/Meridian is home to the I-59 I-20 intersection. Maybe Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa lobbied the SEC Home Office in Birmingham to cut off the infected LSU fans from getting to him and his team?
The reason for the lockdown of that county, to the exclusion of others, is that the virus spread so quickly that the MSDH could not get a handle on potential contacts backwards (who patient X got it from) or forward (who patient X has contacted). When they lose control of contacts that fast, the only way to reassert control is to try to freeze everyone in place to stop the forward spread.
Lauderdale has been ripe for an outbreak.
Hospitals are by far the largest employer in the county. Little to no testing has been done until recently.
It was only a matter of time.
11:34 - do you know how to do mathematical percentage calculations or only simple addition and subtractions?
The gent at 11:34 obviously has no understanding of the term 'Per Capita'. Not much we can do to help him with that. He's at Academy buyin' boots.
Well, he needs to take head from the leaders out of Memphis and Shelby county TN. They’re asking DeSoto county to do the same thing. But oh well.
It's the governors taking the lead mitigating this virus spread. Where is ours?
529, ours is right where he ought to be, governing our state and its conditions, not reacting to what someone else somewhere else is doing.
But I'm sure you have a lot more knowledge of the actual conditions on the ground throughout the state than he has, because you've spent the past few days reading comments on social media blogs. Since you are more informed than the folks at MDOH that only have the actual stats that are being fed from around the state, I'm sure you could call your buddy Josh and he could get you in to give your informed advice to 'our' Governor.
There are multiple counties that need to be added to that shelter-in-place list .... we are sitting ducks .... hopefully our local governments or state government will wake up!
This is in violation of the US Constitution. This is a totalitarian impulse.
-The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits the states from interfering with life, liberty, or property without a trial at which the state must prove fault.
-The Contracts Clause prohibits the states from interfering with lawful contracts, such as leases and employment agreements.
-The Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment requires just compensation when the state meaningfully interferes with an owner's chosen lawful use of his property.
-The First Amendment demands protection for the right to associate and the judicially recognized right to travel - both of which are natural rights.
We are accepting the devil's bargain.
The Patriot's Act is another example of government over-reach.
@6:49 14th limits the federal government, not the state of MS.
With 6 trillion dollars of stimulus floating around Butler Snow will be all hands on deck.
Indefinite lockdown in Meridian is also an 8th amendment violation for cruel and unusual punishment
I’m not one to root in fascism. I love the constitution. I don’t like authority telling me what to do. Too many damn rules & regulations as of now.
Tate- shut it down. All of it. They won’t listen unless you issue a decree from on high.
I used to want to go into the medical field, but I don’t like death, so I skipped out on that. Mass social distancing, with backing from the government, is the only way to slow this wave. It’s every where already. I’ve been in isolation for almost a month because of what’s coming.
You might have them mad for a hot minute, but they’ll be alive to vote for you again.
Shelter in place order for the entire state ASAP. Pearl resident here. I ventured out to get a Mega Millions ticket and a king sized Dark Chocolate KitKat while wearing my mask. Nobody that I encountered was practicing social distancing. The majority in this state is just too stupid to protect themselves.
You folks have been living in a post U.S. Constitutional world all your life. We are way past the point of bringing it back.
Will the president have to step in?they obviously don't want to listen to the governor.
Wait...nursing homes? Governmental action? Is there any money to be skimmed from the fed on this? If so, there's yer sign...
@7:33 PM - oh yes it does apply to both. You are incorrect. (Except for the immigration clause).
BTE knows everything. He can't be wrong.
This evening I sat down to a bowl of popcorn and watched the 2011 film Contagion and now I'm really scared. The movie even portrays the mutation stages of the novel virus from Chinese bats.
@10:18, Contagion is great. Jude Law portrays a blogger covering the virus.
News says a Meridian Nursing Home has several infections of COVID-19...but won't publicly name which one
Present stats:
DeSoto County - 84 cases; 1 death
Hinds County - 90 cases
LAUDERDALE - 35 cases
Gez - can they not read numbers! Really, you don't see a cluster w/Hinds, Rankin and Madison; worse than Lauderdale.
Its safe to assume its worse than the numbers indicate. He did a lockdown for a reason, they're just trying to get their lies straight before telling the story.
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