Phil Murphy made an actual “reopening” announcement this week unlike last Monday’s fake-out, Save Jerseyans. Still, to use a favorite liberal word, the announcement was “problematic” in a number of ways, the most obvious of which was the fact that small businesses (and restaurants in particular) were left with little to celebrate.
“For small restaurants and bars, the six-foot rule means they won’t be able to increase capacity, even with the Governor’s announcement,” opined state Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-13) following Murphy’s daily briefing. “The Governor is waiting for the CDC to make the call, but common sense and the data support doing away with the arbitrary six-feet of separation.”