A judge in Wisconsin dealt Governor Tony Evers a setback last Wednesday by blocking an order he imposed that would limit the number of people in bars and restaurants at one time.
Evers’ office called Sawyer County Circuit Judge John Yackel’s decision to issue a temporary restraining order “dangerous” and “leaves our state without a statewide effort to contain this virus,” according to the Associated Press.
Scott Stenger, a lobbyist for the statewide Tavern League, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the 25 percent capacity limit is not economically sustainable for these bars and actually would cost even more for the restaurants to remain open to the public.
Flambeau Forest Inn, a plaintiff in the case, has a dining area that fits 60 and a bar that seats 25, the paper reported, citing the lawsuit. Under Evers’ mandate, the establishment would be “forced to operate at a 10-person capacity,” which means only “five customers onsite with the five staff normally required to operate the bar and restaurant.”
The Tavern League of Wisconsin issued a statement after the ruling that said it is “committed to fighting the spread of COVID-19, but will not stand by and watch its members be forced out of business by unlawful orders.”
TRENDPOST: Again, as evidenced by data we have cited in numerous issues of the Trend Journal, the capacity restrictions, what are essential and nonessential businesses, social distance distances, mask wearing rules (no singing, no dancing, no hugging, no kissing, no new sex partners) are moronically made up. As with the Wisconsin ruling and others such as in Michigan and Pennsylvania, they are not only in violation of common sense and hard science, they’re against the law.
This past Friday, Oregon politicians and a state resident filed a lawsuit against Kate Brown, the governor, claiming her lockdown and emergency orders exceed her constitutional authority.
Interestingly, as we have noted, there are no mass protests against the lockdowns and regulations in the U.S. as there are in other western nations.
