This:
The governors of Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina on Monday afternoon announced new plans to bring their states’ economies closer to full force amid signs the coronavirus outbreak is slowing.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said certain businesses, including gyms and hair salons, can reopen beginning this Friday. Meanwhile, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed his state’s stay-at-home order, previously extended to April 30, will end that day. And, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said businesses previously deemed nonessential — department stores, flea markets, florists, bookstores and music shops — could reopen their doors.
To be clear, these States are not going right back to business-as-usual pre-COVID:
“These businesses will open according to specific guidance that we will provide in accordance with state and national experts in both medicine and business,” Lee said in a statement. “Social distancing works, and as we open up our economy it will be more important than ever that we keep social distancing as lives and livelihoods depend on it.”
But these Republican Governors are moving in the right direction and, perhaps most importantly, the are doing so NOW, which will help mitigate the ruinous damage the lockdowns have done to our economy.
Meanwhile in New Hampshire, it’s the same-old, same-old from Sununu:
The #CoronaHoax continues.
