GOP Governors Move to Reopen; Dems Extend Shutdowns

By Headline Wealth - April 24, 2020

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R)
(Liberty Headlines) Announcing plans to begin reopening his state, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster cited the ongoing economic damage from the Wuhan virus pandemic.

“South Carolina’s business is business,” he declared this week as he lifted restrictions, with careful guidelines, on department stores, florists, music shops and some other businesses that previously had been inconsistently deemed “nonessential.”

At the same briefing, the state’s chief epidemiologist, Dr. Linda Bell, seconded the importance of economic recovery but quickly inserted a note of caution: “The risk of exposure remains for everyone.”

It is a scenario playing out across the country as governors wrestle with weeks of quarantine-fueled job losses and soaring unemployment claims, while warnings from single-issue focused public health officials say lifting stay-at-home orders now could spark a resurgence of COVID-19..

Meanwhile, groups of protesters across several states have staged loud demonstrations in favor of rescinding quarantine orders.

The dire hit to the economy is clear: Jobless numbers released Thursday show Depression-era levels of unemployment, with 1 in 6 American workers losing their job amid the pandemic. In South Carolina, more than 14% of the labor force has claimed to be out of work due to the outbreak.

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Poster Comment:

Get it on and reopen the economy.