{"id":681,"date":"2020-04-13T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=681"},"modified":"2020-04-14T12:41:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:41:48","slug":"for-michigan-residents-stay-at-home-order-makes-garden-seeds-and-paint-illegal-but-lottery-booze-and-marijuana-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2020\/04\/13\/for-michigan-residents-stay-at-home-order-makes-garden-seeds-and-paint-illegal-but-lottery-booze-and-marijuana-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"For Michigan Residents Stay at Home Order Makes Garden Seeds and Paint “Illegal” but Lottery, Booze, and Marijuana “Essential”."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer latest stay at home order\nallows big box home improvement stores to remain open but only to sell\n\u201cproducts necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation and basic operations of\nresidences.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Governor Gretchen Whitmer <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Whitmer\u2019s order also takes the order a step further and\nrequires large retailers to close carpet or flooring, furniture, and garden sections\nof the store by blocking them, placing signs in aisles, posting prominent signs\nor completely removing goods from the shelves. Under the current order you are\nnot even allowed to purchase seeds to grow your own garden as it is now\nillegal. Stores caught violating the order can be fined $1,000 and forced to\nshut down completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of Michigan is mostly well known for its Great\nLakes and more than 11,000 inland lakes, However, motorized watercraft are not\nconsidered permittable outdoor activities\u2019 under Governor Whitmer\u2019s revised\nstay-at-home order in effect through April 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this may be bad for those wanting to be active or spend this time sprucing up their home there is light at the end of the tunnel. If you like to gamble, drink, or smoke marijuana you have nothing to worry about. These activities have been deemed \u201cessential\u201d and will be available to all residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can imagine many Michigan residents are upset and believe the Governor has overstepped her boundaries by personally deciding what is essential\u201d vs focusing on what is “safe and reasonable”. Since the new stay at home order a petition to recall Whitmer as Governor had nearly 150,000 signatures and the Facebook \u201cGroup Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine\u201d have over 250,000 members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day the only thought that comes to my mind is insane. The fact the Governor is making poor judgement decisions and imposing ridiculous restrictions for the whole state given the majority of the COVID cases exist in 3 out of the 83 counties is asinine. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Michiganders roll over and just accept their fate or will they unite and fight back in order to protect their constitutional rights. Only time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/public-interest\/2020\/04\/recreational-motorboats-not-allowed-under-michigans-stay-at-home-order.html<\/a> https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/can-you-buy-seeds-michigan-confusion-reigns-over-whitmer-stay-home-order<\/a> https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/coronavirus\/2020-204_HS_-_ER-_Schedule_of_Fines_685694_7.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer latest stay at home order allows big box home improvement stores to remain open but only to sell \u201cproducts necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation and basic operations of residences.\u201d Whitmer\u2019s order also takes the order a step further and requires large retailers to close carpet or flooring, furniture, and garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[179,180,183,182,119,181,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-govener","9":"tag-governor","10":"tag-gretchen","11":"tag-marijuana-essential","12":"tag-michigan","13":"tag-paint-illegal","14":"tag-whitmer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}