States should have let the feds make this decision. The states who hate the feds (california, washington, new york) are also the ones who have the trickiest pol

States should have let the feds make this decision. The states who hate the feds (california, washington, new york) are also the ones who have the trickiest political decision to make, as reopening in dense cities is always going to be a tradeoff. The states who like the feds (middle america, texas) have the easiest decision as their states aren't dense. Now Democrat politicians, who prefer to make intersectional, empathetic decisions have to make the toughest political choice imaginable.