Blackletter

Today we're going to talk about employers and how they think about reopening as states start to reopen. Virginia's announced something called the Forward Virginia plan, which they'll start to loosen and reopen businesses in stages. California has something similar called the California's Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience. What these plans generally do is reopen businesses stage by stage. As instances of COVID-19 go down, fewer people are tested positive with it, there are fewer hospitalizations. As protective gear becomes more widely available, these states will ease up on their orders, and you can see those plans for those individual states online. Other states like Georgia have taken their own road to this. Georgia's opening rather rapidly. On April 27th, they're going to take the next step, which expanded that to in-store retail services, and dine-in restaurants, and movie theaters. Believe it or not, and it's already past that date now, retail store services, dine-in and movie theaters and shopping malls in