Coronavirus pandemic highlighting ‘the push and pull of health versus economy’

Sky News Contributor Michael Ware says the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the operation of the “many Americas” in the United States where the states operate according to their own agenda. State governors have begun considering lifting restrictions as protests are taking place across the country, urging leaders to reopen the economy and allow workers to return to their jobs. Mr Ware told Sky News “we are seeing the coronavirus reaction both politically and in terms of public health versus economy being reflected differently in red Republican states and blue Democratic states”. “What we’re seeing in the south and the Midwest, people want to get back to work, people want to get back to business”. He said Georgia’s governor announced he would reopen a number of businesses over the weekend – including tattoo, massage and beauty parlours and restaurants – despite recording 19,000 virus cases and 775 fatalities across the state. The struggle between maintaining lockdown and allowing people to begin going about their normal lives has shown the “the push and pull of health versus economy that’s playing out here in the US,” he said. Image: AP

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