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In reply to the discussion: All K-12 schools in Pennsylvania shut down for 2 weeks amid coronavirus outbreak [View all]DeminPennswoods
(15,276 posts)A story in today's Beaver Co Times quotes a couple of the local GOP reps and senators who voted for the bill. They make some good points, points a lot of folks here agree or will agree with. They are willing to have businesses comply with CDC and other guidelines as well. Dems don't have great counterarguments with "be patient" or "things might get worse again" because there's no real data to back them up one way or the other. Dems aren't offering any alternative like a pilot program in one of the counties where there are few cases of cv19, either, to see what could be done safely and how.
A big part of this is the way the shutdown was done, annouced with no warning, not really well-thought out and the waivers being inconsistently granted. The construction at the big Shell cracker plant is going to resume soon and the state has said "no waiver needed". Yet no one can get a haircut in a business where it's common practice to space out customer appointments or work by appointment only.
The other contributor is that no one at the dept of labor evidently bothered to make sure the UE system could handle the volume of claims that would result from shutting down all these businesses. That is causing no end of frustration to all the claimants and contributing to the clamor to return to work.