Businesses like restaurants and bars in Decatur that got into trouble for breaking the state’s rules to control the spread of COVID-19 won’t be cut off from getting cash aid.
“Me, personally, I don’t like the idea of my police officers looking like the bad person going to this birthday party and saying ‘You guys have to break it up.”
The mayor of Decatur, Julie Moore Wolfe, said passing a mask-wearing ordinance — and giving it teeth by imposing fines — is not a bid to curtail freedom and strangle business, but a determined effort to safeguard health and save lives as COVID-19 rages on.
The Macon County Health Department identified the five individuals as two women, one in her 70s and one in her 80s, and three men, one in his 70s and two in their 80s.
