I m sorry to use that kind of language, but that s the language we re hearing, Mitchoff said. As for the current uptick in local COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, This is not going to end until businesses choose to comply, Mitchoff said.
Indeed, of almost 25 commenters on the fine proposal Tuesday, almost all either blasted Mitchoff and the other supervisors for even considering the idea, and said they small businesses they or others own are foundering as it is. Two called the idea unconstitutional; one said it would open the county to lawsuits; another said the supervisors were being more like a dictatorship than a republic already, in regard to health orders.