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A hair salon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on May 18, 2020. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A performance audit released this week confirmed what Pennsylvania business owners already suspected; the process used to determine businesses closures during COVID -19 mitigation efforts was flawed and administered unevenly.
Pennsylvania’s Auditor General Timothy DeFoor’s audit provides a window into the thought process of Governor Tom Wolf’s administration as it shuttered thousands of businesses.
“This audit revealed a flawed process that provided inconsistent answers to business owners and caused confusion,” DeFoor said in a statement. “While the pandemic certainly presented some unique challenges, the process was hastily assembled on the fly, unevenly administered and should be reformed before anything like it is ever used again.”
On March 19, 2020, Wolf released a list of businesses considered “life-sustaining,” and ordered all other businesses closed to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Gas stations, grocery stores, beer distributors, and abortion clinics were considered life-sustaining and could stay open. Real estate brokers, auto sales, hair salons, elective surgeries, and child care services were not considered life-sustaining and forced to shut down.
Businesses could ask to remain open by applying for a waiver from the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED).
In the 15 days it accepted waiver applications, March 20 through April 3, 2020, DCED received 42,380 applications.
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During that time, DCED posted online five different versions of the waiver request form for businesses to use, the audit said.
Of the applications submitted, one-third, 14,168, were from businesses that did not even require a waiver to remain open because they provided goods or services already declared life-sustaining. The fact that they applied for a waiver illustrates the frustration and confusion businesses experienced, the audit said. Pennsylvania More Restrictive To determine which businesses to close, the federal government gave the state guidance that considered essential workers as those critical for protecting public health and safety, and also considered those supporting economic and national security as essential. The guidance amounted to 14 sectors with essential critical infrastructure workers in each sector.The Wolf administration built a more complex system to consider a business’s life-sustaining or non-life-sustaining qualities. It […]
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