Should We Lift the Shutdowns?
Wisconsin’s Governor Tony Evers initially imposed his stay-at-home order on March 25, until April 24, then extended it until May 26. Despite the coronavirus largely being a problem in small areas of the state, he continued a blanket shutdown of “nonessential businesses” across the entire state. No scientific rationale has been given for his decision.
Even though reports have already come through of shutdown-related suicide and small-business owners struggling to not lose their hard-earned businesses, the governor, like others, has not relented.
As to hardship, at a cheesecake store in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the owner has been manning the business nearly without help to the point of exhaustion, because she can’t afford to pay her employees, desperately hoping the drive-through traffic will be enough to keep her business afloat. The extension meant keeping this workload up for another month.
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