St. Joseph Stay-at-Home Order May 3 (4-21-20)

St. Joseph Stay-at-Home Order May 3 (4-21-20)

Extending it's current stay at home order for residents -- but just slightly.

The current order is set to expire on friday, but meeting yesterday afternoon, there seemed to be an agreement among council members to extend that order until the end of may 3rd.

That would match the statewide extension made by governor mike parson last week.

We spoke with city leaders on their thinking.

<<the coronavirus seems to be pinning medical advice against the desire to restart the economy.

Some say stay at home extensions are essential while others say it's been long enoughst.

Joseph city leaders are arguing both sides"we can still see the raw numbers keep going up.

So, until we get on the backside of the curve, i'm reluctant to say let's loosen all."

"my contention is that we need to go 3rd.

We can evaluate the situation at that we're at and see what we need to practically an entirely month ahead, that's way last week governor parson extended the statewide stay-at-home order until may 4 and kansas city's mayor order through through may 15thtwo city council members say they're siding owners.

"everyday that they can't do business, it's literally killing them and we need to start focusing on economy."councilman gary roach says he'd reopen the economy tomorrow if he but mayor mcmurray says as much as he wants st.

Joseph open for business, the joseph residents are his top priority"i want to get them open as soon as we can safely do it, incremental opening.

As soon as support it and the medical opinion supports it, i want to do an opening of these businesses that are not open."

On in st.

Joseph is one going on all across the country."nobody wants to jump the gun, nobody saying 'hey, we're saying 'hey, let's be judicious about this and make sure we do it right."

Reporting in st.

Joseph, kilee news.

Across the country several protests have popped up as people debate when state and local economies should reopen.