Michigan is sending out special deliveries to its locked-down lovers.
The state’s health department has launched a new, free condom delivery service to help prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The condoms-by-mail program helps replace the free condom giveaways counties had once offered at now-closed government buildings and bars, officials said.
“We feel that it is extremely important during this public health crisis to continue to support our communities in protecting themselves against unintended pregnancy, STIs, and HIV,” Lynn Sutfin, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, told MLive.com.
Michigan residents must request deliveries via email at MDHHS-FreeCondoms@Michigan.gov. Packages will be discrete and unmarked, packed with 10 condoms and 10 packets of lubrication, Suftin told the outlet.
Most packages will “likely be hand addressed as staff are working from home and shipping these items out,” Sutfin said.
Michigan is currently carrying out one of the most hotly protested stay-at-home orders. Armed demonstrators stormed the Michigan State House Thursday over the lockdown, demanding the state reopen despite the ongoing pandemic.