The US allegedly flattened the curve in April, Governor Murphy is doing an excellent job. The virus is airborne so you should avoid indoor dining. God bless you and your wife, stay safe
In my opinion,as someone who has lived in NJ his whole life,"excellent" and Murphy don't belong in the same sentence.
A few examples:
1.To date,he has refused to provide the criteria he uses to determine what constitutes an "essential" business.
2.Murphy said "flatten the curve" and the state would reopen.
N.J. did.
Didn't reopen,even though,based on published reports,of secretly recorded conversations, his own medical people were saying the state should.
Now its "rate of infection".
Based on what "metric".
He won't say.
3.He sent elderly Covid positive patients to nursing homes,instead of the USS Comfort or Javitz Center.
One reason,Federal money.
Close to 50% on N.J.'s Covid deaths are/were in nursing homes.
4.He participated in a BLM march that violated his own executive orders
for crowd size,mask wearing and social distancing.
A couple of days later he revised the executive order on crowd sizes for protests.
5.He got caught dining indoors with his wife.
His executive order specifically said outdoor dining facilities couldn't have a fixed roof.
This place did.
Other places with fixed roofs were not allowed to open.
This week he changed his executive order to allow places with fixed roofs.
6.He claims the problem with indoor dining is people being indoors and
sedentary for periods of time.
Yet,he allowed casinos to open.
Some haven't until they can have indoor food and drink service.
He also hasn't allowed MERV filters,like New York did.
7.He shut down all DMV offices for around four months.
Then was "shocked" that there were 8-10 hour long lines
when they reopened.
It was so bad that they cut off the line 2 minutes after they
opened.
His first response ?
Don't allow people to arrive until an hour before they open.
8.When he ran for office in 2017, one of his campaign platform "planks" was a promise to upgrade the state's DMV and unemployment computer systems.
(They still use COBOL,and need to use retired employees to fix the system).
So far he hasn't even mentioned it to the legislature.
(His term expires next year)
The problems with the system became front and center during the pandemic.
There are a number of people in NJ who filed for unemployment in the middle
of March,and still haven't had their claim processed.
9.Police are going to funeral homes to make sure there are no more then
15 people in the chapel,even if they are socially distancing.
More then 15,the funeral director can get a citation.