There are some anomalies. Georgia’s GOP governor, Brian Kemp, started resuming operations in his state one week before any other governor, and Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is retaining limits in northern Virginia for many additional weeks.
Governors are trying to balance the public health hazards brought about by COVID-19 with a critical economic urgency to get folks working again. “The virus will be with us,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) stated. “We have to find a sustainable way that will be adapted in real time to how we live with it.”
Source: The Washington Post
