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Jimaz
My understanding is that you can go to restaurants but only for take out. Has anyone else been hearing that?
Restaurant workers are not essential according to this from the governor's order. Additionally the purpose of the order is to prevent any exposure where ever possible. It makes some sense for the workers' protection. As much as I wanted to help the restaurants, have not ordered carryout.CoV is passed by respiratory droplets and I had yet to see any restaurant where chefs and servers were masked.
8. For purposes of this order, critical infrastructure workers are those workers described by the Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in his guidance of March 19, 2020 on the COVID-19 response [[available here). Such workers include some workers in each of the following sectors:[[a) Health care and public health.
[[b) Law enforcement, public safety, and first responders.
[[c) Food and agriculture.
[[d) Energy.
[[e) Water and wastewater.
[[f) Transportation and logistics.
[[g) Public works.
[[h) Communications and information technology, including news media.
[[i) Other community-based government operations and essential functions.
[[j) Critical manufacturing.
[[k) Hazardous materials.
[[l) Financial services.
[[m) Chemical supply chains and safety.
[[n) Defense industrial base.
9. For purposes of this order, critical infrastructure workers also include:[[a) Child care workers [[including workers at disaster relief child care centers), but only to the extent necessary to serve the children or dependents of critical infrastructure workers as defined in this order. This category includes individuals [[whether licensed or not) who have arranged to care for the children or dependents of critical infrastructure workers.
[[b) Workers at designated suppliers and distribution centers, as described below.
[[1) A business or operation that employs critical infrastructure workers may designate suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers whose continued operation is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the work of its critical infrastructure workers.
[[2) Such suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers may designate workers as critical infrastructure workers only to the extent those workers are necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the work of the original operation’s or business’s critical infrastructure workers.
[[3) Designated suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers may in turn designate additional suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers whose continued operation is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the work of their critical infrastructure workers.
[[4) Such additional suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers may designate workers as critical infrastructure workers only to the extent that those workers are necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the work of the critical infrastructure workers at the supplier, distribution center, or service provider that has designated them.
[[5) Businesses, operations, suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers must make all designations in writing to the entities they are designating, whether by electronic message, public website, or other appropriate means. Such designations may be made orally until March 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm.
[[6) Businesses, operations, suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers that abuse their designation authority shall be subject to sanctions to the fullest extent of the law.
[[c) Workers in the insurance industry, but only to the extent that their work cannot be done by telephone or remotely.
[[d) Workers and volunteers for businesses or operations [[including both and religious and secular nonprofit organizations) that provide food, shelter, and other necessities of life for economically disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals, individuals who need assistance as a result of this emergency, and people with disabilities.
[[e) Workers who perform critical labor union functions, including those who administer health and welfare funds and those who monitor the well-being and safety of union members who are critical infrastructure workers, provided that any administration or monitoring should be done by telephone or remotely where possible.