I'm not sure that's correct. I think the emergency powers that allow him to make an order like that also say that any violation of that order is a class B misdemeanor. He can't create criminal statutes from wholecloth. That's a legislative act.Yeah. I think that's certainly in a lot of cases. But Holcomb did not try to make it a class b misdemeanor because he was afraid that if he didn't "do something"... If that was the fear, all he'd have to do is what most other states did. Which was to say they're mandated, but not have any real teeth behind it. Then his ass would have been covered. But no. Just out of the blue, "why don't I just make this a real ass crime with real ass criminal penalties just because I said so?" He had no political capital for that and he had no fear inducing him to do that. He went that step on his own, for whatever reason I don't know. Thankfully a political enemy called him out for it.