---> Gatherings limited to 25; alcohol sales will be cut off at 10 p.m.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is lowering the cap on public gatherings and tightening other restrictions in response to the state's growing number of COVID-19 cases.Northam announced Friday afternoon that both indoor and outdoor gatherings will be limited to 25 people, down from a previous cap of 250 people that had been in effect statewide since July 1. That reduction and the other changes will take effect at midnight on Sunday night, Nov. 15.

The governor also is prohibiting the on-site sale, consumption, and possession of alcohol is after 10 p.m. in any restaurant, dining establishment, food court, brewery, microbrewery, distillery, winery, or tasting room. In addition, all such establishments must close by midnight.

Northam also is expanding the statewide mask mandate to include children between the ages of 5 and 9. Previously the mandate requiring masks to be worn indoors in public places applied to children ages 10 and up.

The number of cases statewide is up about 20% over the past week and nearly 33% in the past two weeks, and hospitalizations are also on the rise. Local and state government officials in Maryland and the District of Columbia have also tightened coronavirus restrictions in the past few days. Northam noted that while the biggest surge in cases recently has been in Southwest Virginia, all regions of the state are seeing increases. Northern Virginia's current seven-day average of about 400 cases a day is the highest it has been since early June.

While Northam did not impose additional restrictions on retail businesses, including grocery stores and pharmacies, he noted that they must adhere to statewide guidelines for physical distancing, wearing face coverings, and enhanced cleaning. While certain essential retail businesses have been required to adhere to these regulations as a best practice, violations will be enforceable through the Virginia Department of Health as a Class One misdemeanor, he said. “Everyone is tired of this pandemic and restrictions on our lives," he added. "I’m tired, and I know you are tired too. But as we saw earlier this year, these mitigation measures work."

In a news conference Tuesday, Northam had said he didn't see a need to tighten restrictions and instead highlighted the state's increased testing capacity.

Northam Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfvqn7Yk-To

I don't see how these restrictions are going to change anything. COVID will still surge in VA. The experts are saying small gatherings are spreading COVID.

The only thing that will work is full lockdown again for 2 months and then everybody wears masks until a vaccine is available to everybody. Once the lockdown is done VA needs to lockdown it's borders.

Northam is an asshole..

When are we going to get rid of these masks?

good, all clubs in VA have been bringing unnecessary violence

Democrats are fucking STOOPID!

and your rights with a Democrat vote for this !!!

5 year old's instead of 10 years old must force mask inside public spaces and gatherings must be 25 or less not 250

WTF were you Democrats doing having a KKK rally with 250 Klansmen in one place !

That's all you get and it took this long for Ralph the Democrat to do this , WTF do you think JOE would have done when Covid 19 first hit the USA

Nothing just like his fellow Democrats in congress.

YOU LOST BIG TIME !

He’s an ass Wrote:
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> Northam is an asshole..
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> When are we going to get rid of these masks?


Why the fuck are you even wearing one?

bare faced cracka Wrote:
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> > When are we going to get rid of these masks?
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> Why the fuck are you even wearing one?


I haven't worn one yet.

I don't understand why you trumptards cry about lockdown so much. You don't go anywhere or do anything anyway.

Libs hate Americans. Wrote:
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> I haven't worn one yet.


Except you have. Who lies about something like that? No one finds you cool. You look stupid. But it's obvious you hate your life and want to die anyway so just go kill yourself.

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> Except you have. Who lies about something like
> that? No one finds you cool. You look stupid. But
> it's obvious you hate your life and want to die
> anyway so just go kill yourself.


Why would I lie about doing something that is so stupid? I'm not a libtarded anti American brown shirt libtard.

Fuck masks. You're a fucking pussy.

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> Except you have. Who lies about something like
> that? No one finds you cool. You look stupid. But
> it's obvious you hate your life and want to die
> anyway so just go kill yourself.

^^^^^ this

Big fuckin deal Wrote:
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> I don't understand why you trumptards cry about
> lockdown so much. You don't go anywhere or do
> anything anyway.


^^^^^ this

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> > that? No one finds you cool. You look stupid.
> But
> > it's obvious you hate your life and want to die
> > anyway so just go kill yourself.
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> ^^^^^ this
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> Big fuckin deal Wrote:
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> > I don't understand why you trumptards cry about
> > lockdown so much. You don't go anywhere or do
> > anything anyway.
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> ^^^^^ this

Nobody expects Nazis to understand freedom and liberty and Americans.

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> > > Except you have. Who lies about something
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> > > that? No one finds you cool. You look stupid.
> > But
> > > it's obvious you hate your life and want to
> die
> > > anyway so just go kill yourself.
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> > > I don't understand why you trumptards cry
> about
> > > lockdown so much. You don't go anywhere or do
> > > anything anyway.
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> > ^^^^^ this
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> Nobody expects Nazis to understand freedom and
> liberty and Americans.


what a reach

You pay taxes. Wear seatbelts, go to work. You're a slave and wearing a mask or staying home won't make you anymore of slave. Not wearing a mask and going out won't make you less of a slave either :)

It's OK if your a mask fag. But don't try to force your mask faggotry on normal people.

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> You pay taxes. Wear seatbelts, go to work. You're
> a slave and wearing a mask or staying home won't
> make you anymore of slave. Not wearing a mask and
> going out won't make you less of a slave either :)


It actually does make you less of a slave.

LOL no it doesn't and that's what your problem is. The government is still controlling you even if you don't wear a mask. Idiot.

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> You pay taxes. Wear seatbelts, go to work. You're
> a slave and wearing a mask or staying home won't
> make you anymore of slave. Not wearing a mask and
> going out won't make you less of a slave either :)


I don't pay taxes. I don't wear a seatbelt. Have you ever cut a dead person out of a car who was burned up? I have. People like you are government pawns and total garbage.

they don't seem to concerned about the covid 1984 in Russia...

https://novacapsfans.com/2020/11/13/evgeny-kuznetsov-opens-hockey-facility-for-chelyabinsk-school-children/

maybe the resident libshit can tell us what the infection and death rate is in Russia, and how the Europeans think locking everything down was a big mistake

Seat belts actually work. Masks... not so much.

I mean they're great at holding the Covid right there in the cotton so you can get a great whiff of it for hours and hours...so if you're looking to get some Covid keep wearing the masks. I think Germany and other parts of Europe proved that. They got hammered with Covid after everyone was wearing masks for months.

libtards think they are super intelligent when they can recite lies from cnn and analize them just a bit

the masks don't work and unless you have enough food and water to not leave your house, you will be exposed

fuck you stupid faggots who drive alone in your car or walk outside with masks on...you look like the stupid slaves you are

i will not wear my mask, i will take vitamin d and zinc and quercetin if i get sick enough to even notice it and will be happy and free except for all the scared azz idiots running around proud fo their enslavement

Won't Stop Massive VA Surge Wrote:
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> I don't see how these restrictions are going to
> change anything. COVID will still surge in VA.
> The experts are saying small gatherings are
> spreading COVID.
>
> The only thing that will work is full lockdown
> again for 2 months and then everybody wears masks
> until a vaccine is available to everybody. Once
> the lockdown is done VA needs to lockdown it's
> borders.

Rupert Pupkin Wrote:
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> Seat belts actually work. Masks... not so much.
>
> I mean they're great at holding the Covid right
> there in the cotton so you can get a great whiff
> of it for hours and hours...so if you're looking
> to get some Covid keep wearing the masks. I think
> Germany and other parts of Europe proved that.
> They got hammered with Covid after everyone was
> wearing masks for months.


Europe got hammered AFTER everyone was forced to stay home and wear masks

Lol. Dumb and dumber. #Darwin

For the last 30 years the liberal retards(redundant) in this country have pointed to Europe to say that's how we, the U.S., should do things. The scientists in Europe have said locking everything down because of the covid has made the covid a lot worse. The liberal retards(redundant) also like to say we need to listen to the science. But, I've noticed the liberal retards(redundant) don't believe the science if it disagrees with thier socialist DNC brainwashing.

noticerer of things Wrote:
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> For the last 30 years the liberal
> retards(redundant) in this country have pointed to
> Europe to say that's how we, the U.S., should do
> things. The scientists in Europe have said locking
> everything down because of the covid has made the
> covid a lot worse. The liberal retards(redundant)
> also like to say we need to listen to the science.
> But, I've noticed the liberal retards(redundant)
> don't believe the science if it disagrees with
> thier socialist DNC brainwashing.


hey you shouldn't use the word r*tard

it's offensive

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> I don't understand why you trumptards cry about
> lockdown so much. You don't go anywhere or do
> anything anyway.


Where do you go and do that’s so great libtard? Masturbating in your parents basement doesn’t count