Posted on 04/26/2020 10:27:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Ready or not, America is opening back up.
The process that began in recent days with back-in-business nail salons and unbarred sandy beaches in a scattering of states is poised to accelerate over the coming week across wide swaths of the country. After shutting down much of American life in March and keeping people home throughout April, governors are preparing to lift restrictions as the calendar turns to May — and cross their fingers that the novel coronavirus doesn’t come roaring back.
In Tennessee, customers will be able to sit down for meals in restaurants starting Monday. In Missouri, the coming week will be the last before the state allows “almost every business” to reopen. And in Idaho, churches and other places of worship could be unlocking their doors by next weekend.
The easing will not be universal and is cleaved largely along party lines, with some Republican governors moving to reopen key sectors and Democrats moving more slowly. In states such as New York, where covid-19 has exacted its heaviest toll, there is no letup to the rules in sight. Even in places where restrictions are being relaxed, governors have emphasized the need to proceed cautiously, lest they unleash a second wave.
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It can begin fast enough!
This is pertinent to the thread.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Here-s-a-List-of-Colleges-/248626
Here’s a List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
ENOUGH TALK and open up for goodness sake!!! as time goes by and our local parks are still closed I’m beginning to lose faith in Abbott..STOP THE PANDEMIC HAIR ON FIRE HOAX already!!! Please!!!
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/open-texas-rally-draws-hundreds-of-demonstrators-to-frisco/287-56b8a004-f243-42cd-8efd-82c859e6143e
Dallas salon owner tears up citation during ‘Open Texas’ rally in Frisco
Hundreds of demonstrators crowded together in front of Frisco City Hall, demanding Gov. Greg Abbott allow businesses, schools and churches to reopen.
https://www.cbs7.com/content/news/West-Texas-mayors-pen-letter-to-governor-asking-businesses-to-reopen-569958501.html
West Texas mayors pen letter to governor asking businesses to reopen
https://www.al.com/news/2020/04/will-ainsworth-it-is-time-for-churches-to-reopen.html
Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth tweeted Sunday morning saying “it is time for churches to reopen.”
Agreed, but now lets get the recovery going!
Abbott is acting like an old woman. You can’t lock up a State because some people may die.
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/apr/25/restaurants-may-reopen/521559/
State says Chattanooga restaurants can reopen Monday
https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/569933921.html
Gatlinburg reveals ‘additional’ guidelines for reopening
We’ve got about a week until Washington State’s lockdown is supposed to be lifted. I’m wondering if Commissar Inslee is going to ‘pull out the football’ before next Monday and increase the length of the lockdown. It certainly would follow his M.O. if he did.
https://www.wjbf.com/ap-top-news/sc-flea-markets-reopen-with-promise-to-put-virus-safety-1st/
SC flea markets reopen with promise to put virus safety 1st
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2020/04/national-park-service-beginning-plan-reopening-parks
In an email Saturday to regional directors and park superintendents, acting National Park Service Director David Vela said he and his deputies were working with Interior Department officials “on the framework for a gradual resumption of operations.”
Little may have just become a one-term wonder. It is, however, interesting that the WaPo suddenly is quoting Republican governors right and left for the first time in a long time. Count the (R)'s in that article. Clearly that editorial staff has decided that if lockdowns piss people off at Trump they're a good thing. Two months from now they'll be spinning on a dime and calling them fascism and xenophobia again. Watch it happen.
Crossing their fingers is an apt description since everything they have done so far has been based on a computer-modeled modern superstition.
I just watched Chris Wallace grilling the Governor of Oklahoma on opening his state. The governor explained the risks, nobody is forced to reopen, and Chris just kept it up with his negative questions. A fair minded journalist would have closed the interview with a wish of good luck...but it’s obvious that Chris Wallace wants to see increased Oklahoman deaths and a crumbling of their economy. Chris Wallace speaks like an enemy of the people.
The “15 days to slow the spread” should be the guidelines happening now. Hospitals are not overwhelmed. Vulnerable able people can self-quarantine as can anyone else who so chooses. Vulnerable people who cannot take care of themselves, such as those in nursing homes, should be given extra protection.
It took 4 ComPost reporters to write this.
As a fellow Washingtonian, I believe you to be correct about Inslee. He enjoys, too much, his foot on our necks.
LAUREL, Mont. - Montana took its first, halting step toward reopening as churchgoers returned to services after a month-long hiatus and a general stay-at-home order expired.
While other states have been extending restrictions amid the continuing spread of the coronavirus, Montana is among those that are beginning to loosen rules in hopes of restoring battered economies and regaining some normalcy.
Roughly 100 people streamed into St. Anthony Catholic Church in Laurel on Sunday, where ushers tried to keep families separate from one another and large bottles of hand sanitizer were on offer at the sanctuary’s entrance. Church member Jack Auzqui says being unable to attend had been spiritually difficult for him and his wife. Returning, he said, was akin to a family being reunited.
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