[SaxxonWoods]

Governors and in some cases Mayors are in charge of restrictions and reopenings. They put themselves in charge of those things and got away with it.

The people decide whether to abide by restrictions and how and when reopenings take place. When politicians see that enough of the populace has lost patience and will ignore their restrictions, the politicians have folded.

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We were under your restrictions for awhile. But we left home whenever we wanted, drove across the state line and back, visited friends and had friends visit us. And we were never challenged. It’s all a charade.

[Nero Germanicus]

Here’s what isn’t a charade: “In April, the unemployment rate increased by 10.3 percentage points to 14.7 percent. This is the highest rate and the largest over-the-month increase in the history of the series (seasonally adjusted data are available back to January 1948). The number of unemployed persons rose by 15.9 million to 23.1 million in April. The sharp increases in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to contain it.” —Bureau of Labor Statistics.