S-N Editorial: Partial re-opening, many questions

The what-ifs of the COVID-19 pandemic hardly seem answered almost two months after everything shut down. Iowa re-opened some shuttered businesses and other gathering places this week, but after all we’ve been warned about this virus, you have to wonder why. How can we begin the process of re-opening the state before we’ve even reached the projected peak of infections? It seems head scratching and dangerous.

Despite a surge in both coronavirus deaths and infections, Gov. Kim Reynolds last week signed an order allowing malls, restaurants, fitness centers, libraries and retail stores to reopen in...