Thread by @bkives

Effective Friday, Manitoba is enacting a household-only socialization rule.

You may only socialize indoors with people you live with, with some exceptions. #COVID19

Exceptions:

- Health-care, personal care or home care
- Parent or guardians can visit a child who doesn't live with that child
- Child care
- Tutoring or other education
- Construction, renovations, repairs, maintenance
- deliveries
- Real estate or moving
- Emergency response

Retail stores allowed to remain open must now sell essential goods only.

Non-essential goods must be cordoned off or otherwise not available for sale.

Retail stores must keep track of 25 per cent capacity rule.

New hard cap of 250 customers for larger stores.

"A person who lives on their own may have one other person with whom they regularly interact attend at their private residence and may attend at the private residence of that one person."

"A person is permitted to briefly enter onto the exterior portion of a person’s property (for
example, to drop off a delivery)"

Five-person limit remains elsewhere. Health-care is obviously exempt from five-person limit.

The gathering limit also does not apply to social services or schools.

Retailers have to remove their non-essential goods by Saturday.

Non-essential items must be removed from public access.

Signs in the business or stickers on items in the business must clearly identify non-essential items.

Pallister: Do not rush out today to get non-essential items.

Online and curbside sales of non-essential items remain OK.

Essential items:

- Food, beverages and food prep products
- Personal care products such as soap and dental care products
- Health-related products such as prescription drugs and vitamins
- Mobility or assistive devices

- Baby and child-care accessories such as diapers and formula
- Household cleaning products, safety devices, batteries and lightbulbs
- Outdoor winter apparel such as jackets and boots
- Personal protective equipment for the workplace
- Pet food and supplies
- Postage stamps

- Cellphones & accessories
- Parts & supplies for all types of motor vehicles & watercraft
- Major household appliances
- Hunting, fishing, trapping supplies
- Tools & hardware
- Materials for home maintenance, repair, construction
- Property maintenance products such as shovels

Pallister: 98 per cent of everybody doing the right thing is not enough.

We need everyone doing the right thing.

Pallister urges Manitobans not to try to game the system.

Stores get a day's grace because it'll be a challenge for them to change everything.

Urges Manitobans not to be jerks Friday: Don't put clerks in a bad spot, if you grab non-essential item that has yet to be cordoned off

Restrictions are in place until Dec. 11. Can be extended.

Can be eased if numbers improve.

Pallister: Big-box stores are aware of new rules.

Can be closed, not just fined, if they fail to observe rules.

Says they will act responsibly.

Pallister ends with an apology to Manitoba swim teams.

Says report of a team that went to Kenora was false.

It was a family.