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The party’s over: no more household gatherings, again - VT Digger

Posted on The News by David Flemming · January 05, 2021 4:00 PM · 2 reactions

The holidays are OVER and we’re back to the ban on household gathering, Gov. Phil Scott said.

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Households may gather with one other ‘trusted household’ over holidays - WPTZ

Posted on The News by David Flemming · December 23, 2020 2:57 PM · 1 reaction

Gov.Phil Scott opened the spigot (a little) on behalf of our holiday enjoyment and mental health.

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Small town hears from state police after Christmas tree lighting gathering 'violation' - Reformer

Posted on The News by David Flemming · December 14, 2020 3:46 PM · 2 reactions

Apparently the outdoor public lighting of a Christmas tree, with cocoa and marshmallows for the kids, was just too much of a public gathering for the State.

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NY Times, national leaders doubt use of ban on social gathering - Burlington Free Press

Posted on The News by David Flemming · December 07, 2020 2:24 PM · 2 reactions

Gov. Phil Scott and Health Commissioner Mark Levine say data and science drive their policies to ban multi-household gatherings. But leading epidemiologists like Julia Marcus of Harvard University say it does no such thing. Even the Vermont Health Dept. data says social gatherings account for only about 20% of outbreak-related cases, not the oft-cited 71%.

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Returning college students must quarantine, but family members don’t need to - WPTZ

Posted on The News by David Flemming · November 17, 2020 1:35 PM · 1 reaction

Every college student coming home for Thanksgiving-Christmas vacation must quarantine. But the family members in the same home don’t need to, state officials say.

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State tightens travel rules over Covid-19 outbreak- Seven Days

Posted on The News by David Flemming · November 11, 2020 4:32 PM · 1 reaction

Non-essential inter-state travel now requires 14 day quarantine or seven day quarantine with negative test.

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The Whole Story: Governor makes “strong recommendation” to limit private gatherings to 10 people

Posted on The Whole Story by David Flemming · November 09, 2020 4:01 PM · 1 reaction

Gov. Phil Scott Friday issued a “strong recommendation” that people limit private gatherings in their homes and elsewhere to 10 people or less. This follows last week’s decision by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to issue an executive order limiting private gathering sizes of 10 or fewer, with a 9:30 curfew and a $500 fine for scofflaws. Gov. Scott said at his press conference that his ‘strong recommendation’ isn’t a mandate - yet. His press release from Friday appears below.

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Schools may reduce student ‘social distancing’ from six feet to three - Seven Days

Posted on The News by David Flemming · July 30, 2020 4:52 PM

Vermont’s tough school reopening guidelines may soften slightly next week, if the six-feet social distancing requirement is cut to three feet.

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Scott defends not enforcing social distancing at protests - Vermont Daily

Posted on The News by David Flemming · June 09, 2020 4:06 PM

Gov. Scott said he hopes there is not an outbreak stemming from police brutality protests, at which social distancing was encouraged but not required by state officials. But - big picture here - Vermont is safer because “there hasn’t been as much violence.”

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Klar clobbers Scott over failure to enforce social distancing at protests - True North Reports

Posted on The News by David Flemming · June 08, 2020 4:15 PM

Phil Scott is making an unfair exception by allowing police brutality supporters to ignore social distancing, challenger John Klar says. Unfair for everyone else, that is. But really - what else could Scott do?

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