Inslee moves in careful phases: Other governors 'leap over' pandemic
Washington state is moving toward businesses doing curbside sales and opening car washes and drive-in religious services, while states in the South and Southwest are reopening malls and hair salons and putting restaurants back in business -- albeit with reduced clientele.
Gov. Jay Inslee is taking Washington state's novel coronavirus recovery step by step, ignoring angry protests, some of which are egged on by the President of the United States whose own guidelines say to wait until new cases of COVID-19 decline for four consecutive weeks.
Extending the "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" order to May 31, the Evergreen State appears to be heeding advice -- and caution -- delivered up on Thursday by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said on the "Today Show," "You can't just leap over things and get a situation where you're tempting a rebound. That's the thing I get concerned about. I hope they don't do that."
Trump offered very different advice after demonstrators armed with assault rifles stormed the Michigan state capitol, protesting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's extension of the stay-home order in her state. "The Governor of Michigan should give a little, put out the fire," Trump Tweeted. "See them. Talk to them. Make a deal."
Putting out the virus is a higher priority in the country's more sensibly governed states.
The Fauci warning is already coming true in places reopening for business. Just before businesses reopened in Texas, the Lone Star State saw 1,033 positive tests for the coronavirus. In Iowa, where COVID-19 has hit meat packing plants, the 740 Iowans testing positive on Friday set a one-day record. Gov. Kim Reynolds is allowing restaurants, malls and fitness centers to reopen in 77 of the Hawkeye State's 99 counties.
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