Not making assumptions at all. Just thought it was a good idea. Sorry you got offended.
My mom is a bank manager and when their lobbies were open this summer (they’ve closed again) they would make people take their mask down in front of a camera.. and everyone complained, both about wearing masks and taking them down.
I do to access my safety deposit box.
I would think it is cheaper cost of living to live in PA as opposed to high property tax Jersey. But the food when I visit is tops in both areas.
None of it is truly enforceable by the states. All of the states exempt anyone traveling for less than 24 hours which covers the bulk of people traveling for work. The state requirements are really to give private businesses a guideline to use to set their policy so in PA schools all follow that plan so if a kid travels anywhere outside of the state overnight (even to their own vacation home at the shore) they can’t come back to physical school until they meet the requirements. A lot of employers are doing the same for workers. So while the states aren’t arresting or fining people for non-compliance the rules still help reduce unnecessary travel. The point isn’t to punish people its to get everyone to bear down and just stay home while the second wave is upon us. Nobody wants to go back to stay at home orders. They are trying to address the higher risk areas instead of doing blanket closures. That’s what the CDC recommends as well.
NJ has updated their guidelines to say the following:
There are a surprising number of financial related documents that need to be notarized. A service many banks provide to their customers. One that’s hard to do at a drive through.
Philly has city wage tax which somewhat offset the higher property taxes in NJ. There are a lot of people who work in center city Philadelphia and live in S Jersey. There’s a high speed train line that takes workers in. If you want some land and don’t want to live in a city environment a lot of people choose the suburbs and NJ is one way to go. Philly has a number of big hospitals and there are a lot of doctors and nurses who make that commute daily.
My bank doesn’t even have locations to even visit.
We tried getting something notarized at a drive-thru this summer and they turned us down. Apparently they do occasionally do it if you're at the first window, but are only doing a small number of them. I guess so they don't hold up the line.
Yeah, most of the time we don't need to go in. But there are some instances, like I detailed above, where you might need to. And since this has dragged on so long, many people have encountered some of those instances.
My bank setup appointments to notarize documents.
As for what is essential and not essential, it debatable. We have a condo in Southwest Florida and our seasonal tenant left at the beginning of April. We go check it every April to make sure there were no problems and in November to get it ready. However, before they left, they told us the Vertical Blinds mechanism broke and needed to be fixed. Fortunately, we managed to get that taken care of without having to make a personal vist but I can think of other things that could have happened and our being forced to quarantine on our return up north from a state with less Covid19 cases is crazy. There is no science to back that up and because of where my wife works, they couldn't let her work if she went to Florida without quarantining. We have not left the Northeast since last January and hope there is nothing wrong with our condo for the tenants. We could have driven in one day if neccessary and brought our own food to eat. The only stops would have been for gas and bathroom breaks. Why was this not allowed? Please let me know?
Ours did that as well, but were booked 2 weeks out and we needed it done before my daughter left for college.
I seriously doubt Wolf is any more or less educated than Murphy or Cuomo - all very accomplished, successful, intelligent people with distinctly different personalities of varying levels on the obnoxious scale. So, leaving that aside . . .
It's the same people who are adamantly opposed to using self checkout on mobile devices while shopping at WDW.
They can’t make rules that specific. Everyone has a different story or a reason to travel. It’s easy to exempt bordering states for work. We went to the Jersey shore for a weekend back in Sept. We ate all of our meals in the room, went to the beach and sat more than 25 feet from anyone else. Nothing we did was any less safe than if we stayed home. That trip wouldn’t be allowed today without us quarantining on return. Is there a difference in safety today vs then for that particular trip, probably not, but they have to set broad rules to try to slow the spread. Sometimes the rules prevent an activity which isn’t really so bad because it’s impractical to make them that precise to prevent it.
You realize that the virus can be carried from a state that has fewer (but not few) cases into a state that has more cases, right? And you might be able to understand how much more difficult it is to conduct contact tracing when patients have been traveling vs. when they've stayed home.
Right? Same people, same reasons. Damn luddites.
Every time I'm in a bank, everyone I see is there for small business reasons.