COVID-19: Debate Over Reopening US Plays Out Online And In The Streets
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MAY 21: An aerial view shows the Las Vegas Strip including MGM Grand Hotel & Casino and the Tropicana Las Vegas , all of which have been closed since March 17 in response to the coronavirus pandemic on May 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is still unclear when casinos in the state will be allowed to reopen. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP.When his business was hit by a coronavirus lockdown, Josh Ellis saw a threat to his livelihood and a breach of the US Constitution.
The debate reflects broader divisions in American politics that have only deepened this year, with the presidential election on the horizon. While some consider protests — which have involved armed demonstrators in states including Michigan — as the way to pressure officials to change their stance, others have used Facebook to talk about a less confrontational exit from lockdown.He wants restrictions lifted “immediately,” telling of how roughly half his business — home remodeling and working as a handyman — was deemed non-essential.
It’s “kinda like the Google search of local militias,” according to Ellis, who sees a role for them to play in ensuring the coronavirus restrictions end.Misinformation about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes has circulated widely on Facebook and spread in some “reopen” groups, adding to mistrust about a public health emergency that remains more virulent in the US than any other country.
Cory Hedgepeth, a founder of REOPEN AMERICA, a Facebook group with more than 30,000 members, is taking a distinctly different approach to Ellis.
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