Thread by @WIBC_EricBerman

There are a couple of new items in @GovHolcomb's new executive order, most notably enforcement against businesses which don't comply. State and local health departments are to issue a verbal warning, followed by a written order. Businesses still in defiance can be shut down. 1/

Besides health departments, police, the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, and @IDHS have enforcement power. Businesses are required to have employees #MaskUp, and post signs directing customers to do so, but the order says only that customers "should" wear masks. 2/

Businesses are also required to mark 6-foot #socialdistancing and have sanitizer readily available. Restaurants and bars are required to keep tables 6 feet apart, with patrons required to remain seated. 3/

Holcomb covered capacity limits in Wed's announcement: all gatherings except religious services are limited to 50 people in most of IN unless they get advance approval from the local health department. 9 red zone counties have a 25-person limit; the cap for 5 in yellow is 100. 4/

Second new item: if a county's positivity/case numbers cross to the next color-coded risk level, that happens immediately. But to go to a lesser level, the numbers have to stay down for two weeks. 5/

Finally, there are capacity limits for high school sports. No limits in yellow zone (currently Fulton, Monroe, Putnam, Crawford, Switzerland). But spectators are banned in red zone counties, except for parents, guardians and siblings, and masks are required. 6/

In orange zone counties, which right now is most of Indiana, high school sports attendance is capped at quarter-capacity. Community sports are spectator-free, except for players' parents, guardians, siblings or children. 7/

The state football finals (in orange Marion County) are a special case, with @IHSAA1 and @Marion_Health to come up with a spectator plan.

The current red-zone counties are LaGrange, Newton, Fayette, Union, Decatur, Perry, Clay, Warren, Fountain. 8/8