Despite the media screaming that business owners are gonna just open up and try to run things like before?
THAT isn’t the case…
Masks and questions about fevers are now up to the business people to check on as they try to revive their businesses….
Things ARE gonna take a while to get back…
Gov. Brian Kemp (R) was one of the last governors to issue a statewide stay-at-home order to help stem the spread of the coronavirus; it went into effect April 3. Now, Kemp is opening more businesses more quickly than anywhere else, bucking experts who warn that doing so could lead to an increase in the number of coronavirus deaths.
Friday was the first day bowling alleys, tattoo parlors, gyms and salons were allowed to reopen, provided they follow social distancing guidelines, take employees’ temperatures and screen them for signs of illness. Movie theaters and dine-in restaurants will follow suit on Monday, three days before the state’s shelter-in-place order expires.
Georgians tiptoeing back to work in those industries acknowledge they are essentially guinea pigs as governments experiment with how to return the nation to normal. After weeks of unemployment, often with uneven government help, some said they are happy to be earning paychecks but worry about the ultimate costs of abandoning isolation too soon…
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Tennessee’s governor has said he will allow many businesses to reopen once his shelter-in-place order expires next week. The governor of South Carolina allowed some retail stores to reopen this week. People have been walking on the beaches near Jacksonville, Fla., for a week.
So here in Missouri the statewide shelter in place is through May 4–though Gov. Parson has largely left it up to localities.
Franklin County–an exurban and rural county southwest of St. Louis had a reopening of sorts on Friday with allowing many of the same businesses as GA did to open.
The result? Most did not. Business owners were on local news This morning sayimg it just wasn’t worth it. This was a political stunt to capitalize on Parson’s leaving it up to the localities. This one wanted to scream “first”!
St. Louis City and County with a combined population of 1.3 million–almost half of the metro area residents–is under shelter at home until mid May at least.
Here in SC I have noticed the same thing.
We have had a “soft opening” of sorts.Some retail places and a few parks.
The beaches mostly have refused to open and the Governor has essentially said he would honor their wish.
After fairly ludicrous statements that he thought the economy would rebound by late June,McMaster seems to be accepting that this will be a long road back.
Like wise?
Can i add ur report also Jack?
Ok
Thank you Scott for ur report…
Any problem with me making your comment a post?
I have tried to make the same point on this…
Sure. Go ahead