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Governors have already committed to weakening earlier imposed stay-at-home orders in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, to name a few on The Hill’s list of state reopening plans. “We can’t wait until there’s a cure to this,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves told Fox News Sunday. “We can’t wait until every single person can get tested every single day to open up our economy. We have serious mental health issues going on in this country right now. And we also have a serious economic crisis going on in this country right now.”
However, governors in California, Oregon, and Washington are partnering to make a collective decision on reopening their states. That decision will be based on when leaders observe a drop in the coronavirus’ spread, according to Business Insider. “West Coast is guided by science,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted on Monday. “We issued stay at home orders early to keep the public healthy. We’ll open our economies with that same guiding principle.”
What’s right vs. what makes money: It’s a divide that has long persisted in America and seems to align with a long-observed north vs. south divide. It dates back to decades before the Civil War, when the Mason-Dixon line was etched out to stop sparring colonists from infringing on each other’s territories. It became a figurative division between the North and the South, with northern states advocating for the abolition of slavery and southern states hoping to cling fiercely to the system of free labor sustaining their way of life.
To this day, the very real manifestation of that ideological difference for Black people still sparks a fear so deep that it gives my family pause before we take a road trip through the Deep South. We decided to do it, and we were predictably stopped in Mississippi by a white deputy for failing to pull over when passing a stalled law enforcement vehicle.
