Easing lockdowns makes day-to-day choices more complicated

CARLA K. JOHNSON, ADAM GELLER and ERIC OLSON

Associated Press

Things were so much clearer when just about everything was locked down.

Now, with states lifting their coronavirus restrictions piecemeal and according to their own, often arbitrary, timetables, Americans are facing a bewildering multitude of decisions about what they should and should not do to protect their health, their livelihoods and their fellow citizens.

Is it safe now to join the crowds at the beach or eat at a restaurant? To visit the elderly parents you haven't seen in nearly two months? To reopen a struggling business?

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