Howard County to Ban Sale of Toys & Crafts But Beer is Okay
The Howard County Board of Commissioners, in conjunction with the Mayor of the City of Kokomo and the Howard County Board of Health, along with the support of several big box stores and the Indiana retail council – placed an order to reduce the sale of non-essential items in our community for the remainder of the Orange Travel Advisory. According to the press release sent out today by Howard County Commisioner Paul Wyman.
The release also stated:
This order is consistent with the Orange Travel Advisory order that was put in place Friday, March 20th at 5 PM and goes through April 3rd at 5pm. The Orange travel advisory establishes essential travel as going to the grocery or to get food for your family, a medical appointment or the hospital, the pharmacy, or to your essential job. The message here is stay home, socially separate and limit human interaction to help prevent the spread of the virus in our community. Limiting the purchase of these goods will encourage and reinforce our message for people to stay home.
“We are asking people to please stay home, unless it is essential to go out. The efforts that we have made the last several weeks, we believe, are paying dividends. This is not the time to let up, but the time to be even more diligent in our efforts to help prevent the spread of this virus. We have to be focused on getting Howard County reopen for business sooner rather than later. These decisions will help us get there sooner. This is not about material items, this is about people. The people in our community are the driving force behind these important and difficult decisions that we are making. This is about less people getting sick and preventing deaths of our loved ones,” said Commissioner Wyman.
Among the items you cannot purchase in Howard County are: Jewelery, Furniture, Home & Lawn Decor, toys, carpet, rug, or flooring, non- emergency appliances, craft and art supplies, paint, and entertainment / electronics according to the order above.
Those items not listed are guns, alchohol, tobacco, lottery tickets, candy bars, pop, chips, beauty supplies, and several other items commonly found in retail stores.
No where in the order did it mandate the use of mobile hand washing sinks or taking a person’s temperature when entering the store. Both are common practice in hospitals all over the country to gain entry.
As a side note from this reporters prospective orders like this only serve to cause additional panic and out of routine purchases that lead to what seems as high demand and causes additional panic. All of this panic is caused yet none of these regulation fix the issue and only serve to strangle more rights and lead us into full martial law. Things that would help the situation such as washing hands and taking a temperature when entering a store do violate rights however are minimalistic in comparison and serve to actually fix the problem. When Commisioner Wyman was asked about mandating hand washing and having temperatures taken he failed to respond.
