Quoted from International Sign Association. Full letter here.)

The International Sign Association has provided the below language to various state organizations and federal agencies urging them to include sign and graphics companies as “essential businesses” or “critical infrastructure” as states and localities enact business closures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Please feel free to send to your sign company customers and to any state or local officials with whom you have contact.

Sign and graphics companies provide critical supply chain and construction services to every typical “essential business” or “critical infrastructure” that is being allowed in states and localities under “shutdown” orders. Most importantly, signs are vital to healthcare facilities. Our public health buildings require constant and ever-changing emergency directional signs, health and safety warning signs, and patient information and instruction signs.

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