In shocking turn of events, businesses wrote the rules for state reopenings.

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https://apnews.com/a9b056df95d41034064923612e4193d9

 

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As South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster prepared to announce the end of a coronavirus stay-at-home order, his top staff received an email from the state health department.

 

The message, highlighted in bold, was clear: Wait longer before allowing customers back inside restaurants, hair salons and other businesses where people will be in close contact.

 

Instead, McMaster pressed ahead with a plan written by the state restaurant association to resume inside dining on May 11. The guidelines made masks optional for employees and allowed more customers inside than the health agency had advised.

 

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He was hardly alone. Thousands of pages of emails provided to The Associated Press under open-records laws show that governors across the U.S. were inundated with reopening advice from a wide range of industries — from campgrounds in New Hampshire to car washes in Washington.

 

Some governors put economic interests ahead of public health guidance, and certain businesses were allowed to write the rules that would govern their own operations.

 

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Capitalism, drink it, keep drinking, put your face in it, breathe. 

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Partly influenced by the bipartisan, generally business deferential ideology of governors and other state lawmakers, and partly by the inability of most, if not all, states from going into the red.

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But since businesses are people too, they were just looking out for the people