Monday, April 20, 2020

Maryland State Police shut down Flagship Car Wash in Rockville

Longtime car cleaning business
asks for customers' help

WJLA ABC7 reporter Kevin Lewis witnessed Maryland State Police drive up and blockade the Flagship Car Wash on Chapman Avenue near the Rockville Target store early Sunday afternoon. The company confirmed to Lewis that MSP officers had shut down four Flagship locations across Montgomery County Sunday. Flagship also has locations in the District and Virginia.

Flagship's owner told Lewis that the services her business was providing were compliant with a written directive from the state regarding which "essential" auto maintenance services could be offered during the statewide coronavirus shutdown. I can confirm this is true, because Flagship had announced way back on March 25 that they were limiting services in Rockville to exterior cleaning only,  with machine-operated automatics, self-service and vacuums to be open 24 hours. Exterior cleaning by employees was not even listed for the other two upcounty, just the automatic and self-serve options.

Later Sunday, Flagship asked its customers on Facebook to share the ABC7 story to support their business. MSP told Lewis that car washes are not an essential service, and that the Flagship location in MoCo should remain closed.

18 comments:

  1. They should be shut down.i think there has been problems in the past with Flagship employees standing on Hungerford Dr to advertise the business and probably other problems with the business we don't even know about.

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    1. There in lies your problem. What you think, and what is actual fact are two different things. The latter is what a decision should be based upon. Keep your thoughts to the op ed section.

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  2. This is not an essential business by any means and should have been shut down a week ago.We don't need a bunch of people spreading Wuhan Virus on the buses while on their way to work and giving it to everyone else while they are at work.

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    1. Hhmmm. "Wuhan Virus"

      I detect a political subtext here.

      These days you might call it the "New York virus". Or the Sioux Falls virus" just as well.

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    1. Are you willing volunteer to get the virus to save the economy?

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    2. What’s really crazy is Trump going ballistic over Maryland Governor Larry Hogan for sourcing 500,000 COVID-19 test kits from South Korea.

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    3. Governor Larry Hogan should have domestically sourced those.

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  4. Well we do have less cases of the Virus Per Capita than many European countries,but i don't agree that its crazy to stop non Essential businesses from putting people in danger.

    But the fake media is trying to convince people that we more cases that everyone else.

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    1. Does not answer the question. Are you willing to get the virus and sign a DNR to save the economy?

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    2. Maybe fake media is trying to do that. But honest media is honestly reporting that we have more cases than any other country.

      Not more-per-capita, but more.

      That's not fake. Your fake media is probably fake.

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    3. But we don't really have more deaths than many countries, dr Birx has tried to explain to people like you that America has one of the lowest death rates.

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  5. I'm for the temporary shutdown,but you can't keep stores and the economy closed permanently,do you want to destroy the whole Country?

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    1. Nobody is advocating to keep stores and the economy closed permanently. Nobody wants to destroy the whole country.

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  6. why did this action require 5 Maryland State Troopers? couldn't someone have simply called Flagship? Doesn't this seem a bit extreme? they're not trading in illegal drugs...just a car wash. Maybe they could have let the automated bays remain open

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  7. I definitely see the car wash as falling under car maintenance. Just b/c it's not something that's under the hood doesn't mean that you're not maintaining your car. I see nothing wrong with the self-service area being kept open; you can still easily practice social distancing. Perhaps people who suffer from depression or anxiety from being kept indoors need to have an outlet outside to relieve some symptoms, and for many, cleaning things does help; it's their "essential."

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  8. Actually, we DO have more cases. Not more-per-capita, but more in total. OP is correct.

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    1. But since The United States has 4-5 times the number of people in most European countries, total figures are not the right way to look at the numbers. Per Capita is a more accurate and correct way to count the mortality rate in comparison with other Countries,and United States has one of the lowest if not the lowest death rate.The media is still trying to convince people we have the highest death rate though. Its just one more example of media giving people news that is not true.

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