Despite having one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in California, Tulare County officials have voted to reopen more businesses before meeting the health criteria set by the state.
“The point is to begin opening up. That doesn’t mean we go back to how it used to be,” Supervisor Kuyler Crocker said in an interview Wednesday. “This is going to be one of those events that changes our lives forever. Business is not going to be done in same way. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do business.”
Supervisor Amy Shuklian cast one of the two votes against the immediate reopening. “I feel like we shouldn’t be too hasty,” Shuklian said. “I thought this was rushed. We could have worked with the state and asked the governor for a variance.”
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