As executive orders continue to tighten restrictions on Michigan citizens and businesses, City Pulse has received emails praising some stores for playing along, and criticizing others for seemingly ignoring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended social distancing procedures.
Considering life and death questions is squirm-inducing enough in the abstract, sitting in an armchair. The COVID-19 outbreak is throwing urgent ethical and moral issues down our backs, like hot coals.
More than 500 new cases of COVID-19 and 17 deaths reported in Michigan brought the statewide death toll to 60 today, with almost 3,000 cases across the state.
At least nine died in Michigan from COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths statewide to 24 while the number of confirmed coronavirus cases jumped to nearly 1,800.
At least nine more are dead from COVID-19 in Michigan, bringing the total to 24, and 463 new reported cases pushed the statewide tally to 1,791 today, with at least 23 in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties.
Much of Michigan is at a standstill that will continue 'til at least mid-April after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in a sweeping executive mandate issued this morning, ordered all business operations that are “not necessary to sustain or protect life” to close, also directing residents to stay at home except in very limited circumstances.
At least eight are dead in Michigan as the number of patients testing positive for the coronavirus statewide surged past 1,000 earlier this afternoon.
As governors across the Midwest order their residents to shelter in place amid multiple statewide lockdowns, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pushed back yesterday: “We are not there,” she said.
The recreational marijuana industry is continuing to plant its roots in the capital city as Lansing’s third recreational marijuana dispensary opened its doors for adult-use sales earlier this morning.
The paranoia of driving to your dealer’s house is old news. No longer will you have to pester your one friend with a med card, and you’re not going to have to worry about catching vape lung from bootlegs carts anymore. Adults 21 and over can finally purchase recreational marijuana in Lansing.
