Behind coronavirus lockdown protests, questions of whom to trust
Posted on AllSides April 22nd, 2020
From The Center
Should states put more faith in their citizens to do the right thing, even amid a pandemic? It’s a question with enormous consequences. But many Americans say “yes.”
As the owner of Ken’s Greenhouses in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mark Smit has a roomful of plants he worries will go unsold.
His anxiety isn’t really about the national all-hands-on-deck response to the coronavirus. It’s about why, in Michigan, those restrictions have veered into what appear to him to be solitary and responsible activities.
On April 9, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer banned travel between...
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