Hard-hit industries clamor for regulations during pandemic

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Source: Washington Post

Hard-hit industries clamor for regulations during pandemic

By Paul Kane
7/4/2020, 7:00:00 a.m.

America’s most influential power brokers in business increasingly feel that they are fighting more than just the deadly coronavirus to revive the economy.

These business interests see a short-term battle against two hard-to-influence forces: individuals acting irresponsibly and a Trump administration that is reluctant to lay down the type of guidelines that would mandate individual behavior during the pandemic.

These recent weeks, as infections have soared in the South and West, fueled by younger adults gathering in bars and at house parties in some regions, delivered a gut punch to businesses that had grown optimistic amid back-to-back months of job gains.

“Travel can’t come back unless people act responsibly,” said Tori Barnes, executive vice president for public affairs and policy at the U.S. Travel Association.

The travel industry knows the high level of scrutiny it is under — most people still don’t fully trust hotels, resorts and airports to be safe enough for them to spend their ever-more-precious dollars for travel during a pandemic. But as they work to make safety improvements, these corporate entities worry those advances will be squandered because so many irresponsible people have continued to spread the virus and those who are trying to play by the rules do not know which rules to follow.

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1. TROUBLE:battle against two hard-to-influence forces: 'individuals acting irresponsibly and a Trump

administration that is reluctant to lay down the type of guidelines that would mandate individual behavior during the pandemic.'

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