{"id":6679,"date":"2020-03-20T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2020-03-20T21:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:20:22","slug":"ffc-services-suspended-until-further-notice-pritzker-issues-order-residents-stay-at-home-starting-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=6679","title":{"rendered":"FFC services suspended until further notice … Pritzker issues order residents \u2018stay at home\u2019 starting Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Everyone,
We will be suspending services at FFC until further notice to comply with the stay at home order by our governor. (See the article below from the Chicago Tribune.) <\/em>I will be sending more information as to how we can stay in touch later via the church blog and our new YouTube channel. Details will be forthcoming as they say. \ud83d\ude42
Sincerely, Pastor Dave<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pritzker issues order residents \u2018stay at home\u2019 starting Saturday By Dan Petrella, Gregory Pratt, Stacy St. Clair, Jamie Munks and John Byrne<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a \u201cstay at home\u201d order for the entire state starting Saturday at 5 p.m. through April 7.<\/strong>
Residents can still go to the grocery stores, put gas in their cars, take walks outside and make pharmacy runs, the governor said at a Friday afternoon news conference. All local roads, including the interstate highways and tollways, will remain open to traffic, as well.
\u201cFor the vast majority of you already taking precautions, your lives will not change very much,\u201d Pritzker said.
Still, he urged patience in the fast-evolving health crisis.
\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet all the steps we\u2019re going to have to take to get this virus under control,\u201d said Pritzker, who added that the state \u201cwould rise to this occasion.\u201d
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said \u201cthis is clearly not a decision that was made lightly, nor by one person. These are choices that must be made for the good of all residents,\u201d she said.
Suburban Oak Park also issued a shelter-in-place order as of 12:01 a.m. Friday, after two emergency room physicians at Rush Oak Park Hospital tested positive for COVID-19. Residents have been ordered to stay in their homes except for \u201cessential\u201d travel as outlined by village ordinance. They can go to work, for example, if their businesses remain open, especially if they have essential jobs such as first responders, sanitation workers or health care providers.
Pritzker laid down the groundwork for a potential order Thursday, telling parents to prepare for the statewide school closure to extend past March 30. Though the governor acknowledged he has discussed imposing more stringent rules on the general public, he said that no matter what he decides, interstate highways, gas stations, grocery stores and pharmacies would remain open.
\u201cThere is no need to run out and hoard food, gas and medicine,\u201d the governor said Thursday. \u201cBuy what you need within reason. There is enough to go around, as long as you do not hoard.\u201d
Though the governor activated the Illinois National Guard earlier this week to help combat the virus, the service members will have no role in enforcing any potential order. Instead, 60 service members will be deployed to establish drive-up testing sites, help with food delivery to disadvantaged families impacted by school closures and possibly prepare closed hospitals to reopen.
The vast majority of currently activated troops are health care professionals \u2014 doctors, nurses, medical technicians \u2014 who would not be tapped for an law-enforcement assignment.
\u201cWe have never even discussed a quarantine mission for the Illinois National Guard,\u201d Lt. Col. Bradford Leighton said. \u201cIt\u2019s never come up.\u201d
Leighton said he understands anxieties are high amid the pandemic, but the Guard is not the boogeyman.
\u201cWe are your friends, neighbors and co-workers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re fellow worshippers at your church, synagogue, mosque or wherever you worship. We are part of the community. We are you. We are not going to invade Chicago. We are here to help.\u201d
The city is not sleeping. It is keeping safe and quiet, filled with the sounds of birds and the hope for sunshine.
What does shelter in place mean? While the specifics for a shelter-in-place order might be different if one is issued here, San Francisco provides an idea of what the rules could look like.
In the San Francisco area, six counties are on lockdown until at least April 7, with only people with essential jobs or government functions allowed to work outside their homes.
Jobs deemed essential there include: Health care workers, grocery store employees, pharmacists, hardware store workers, plumbers, electricians, day care providers, bank tellers and roles that are essential to a business\u2019 operations such as payroll and security. Police, firefighters, paramedics and sanitation workers will not be quarantined.
Like Illinois, San Francisco has shut down schools and bars, moving all restaurants to takeout or delivery only. Gyms and theaters have been closed, but gas stations, laundromats, dry cleaners, banks, supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores have remained opened per the order.
Bay Area residents are allowed to leave their homes to care for the elderly, minors, dependents, persons with disabilities or other vulnerable persons. People also can engage in outdoor activities such as hiking, running or walking as long as they maintain a social distance of 6 feet.
They also may venture out to get food for their families and their pets.
There were 412 confirmed coronavirus cases in the San Francisco area as of Thursday, including four deaths in Santa Clara County attributed to the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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