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Bill De Blasio Threatens To Permanently Close NYC Churches If They Don’t Comply With Social Distancing

Source: The Daily Wire

March 30, 2020

New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened late last week to permanently close places of worship if they broke social distancing efforts aimed at reducing the outbreak of COVID-19 in the hardest hit city in America...

"If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services,” de Blasio told reporters...

“If that does not happen, they will take additional action up to the point of fines and potentially closing the building permanently,” de Blasio concluded.

... Read the rest at the Daily Wire.

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