As U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 51,000, handful of states move toward reopening

Fitness clubs, hair salons, tattoo parlors and some other workplaces were allowed to open their doors by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, disregarding warnings from public health officials that easing restrictions too soon could lead to more infections and deaths.

“We’ve been hurting real bad,” said Lester Crowell, co-owner and manager of the Three-13 hair salon in suburban Atlanta, which reopened after 33 days. “I had to dip into my own bank account to keep the lights on here.” Trump, who had staked his November re-election on the nation’s booming economy before the pandemic, has given mixed signals about when and how the country should begin to get back to work.

The comments prompted doctors, health experts and manufacturers of bleach to warn the public not to drink or inject disinfectant. On Friday, Trump said his remarks were meant as sarcasm. “Everyone’s supposed to be staying home, but yet we’re opening up these businesses,” Collins told Fox News. He cited the guidelines calling for states to register a two-week decline in coronavirus cases before easing restrictions, and said parts of Georgia were still struggling to treat patients.

In practice, many Texas merchants have been doing this for weeks or stayed open outright, as Republican Governor Greg Abbott had classified much of the state’s retail economy, including big-box stores, bike shops, dry cleaners and farmers markets, as essential businesses.

We’ll check in with Georgia in about 3 weeks.

Georgia, twice the population of New Zealand with wildly different results, yet here in New Zealand we are still in level 4 lockdown until Tuesday when we will enter level 3. Tables from

Georgia pushed ahead with its plan to become the first U.S. state to regret allowing an array of merchants to reopen, following a month-long shutdown to limit the coronavirus outbreak

This is a state and city level decision. Disappointed in elected officials screaming fro federal assistance! Federal employees are in our communities! Man up or step aside!

Two weeks

I’m okay with giving merchants the option to reopen, but I still question the choice of industries chosen by Kemp.

They will be the first to see a resurgence of deaths and the governor should be held accountable

They'll be sorry!!! 😩😩😩😩

Oh sure put the black and brown people life in more danger. No providing good health care and health insurance for them now you want them to go get infected sad. People stay home.

Unfortunately since the govt can’t feed and shelter everyone on lockdown the poor hourly workers on GA have the option to reopen and keep their house and food on their table with a risk of getting sick or starve and be evicted. It’s a shitty choice either way.

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