Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.With the coronavirus coming back with a vengeance and the US facing a long, dark winter, governors and other elected officials are showing little appetite for imposing the kind of lockdowns and large-scale business closings seen earlier in the year.
New cases per day are soaring, shattering records over and over and reaching an all-time high on Thursday of more than 153,000.Source: Johns Hopkins University/Graphic: Phil Holm and Nicky Forster "The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small businesses, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms, shut down other small businesses for six weeks and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything is going to be fine," he said. "That's not the way the economy works."
Evers' other attempts at curbing the virus – a mask mandate and limits on occupancy indoors – also faced legal challenges. The powerful Tavern League of Wisconsin challenged Evers' order limiting capacity at bars and restaurants, and a state appeals court earlier this month blocked it.
Surely this is still the first wave, they have never had control of it.