Hazard pay will sunset one day, but street cafes? We can’t lose that. screenshot from Seattle Channel
Now that the pandemic has reached a level of pain and suffering that American governments feel comfortable with, the Seattle City Council has started to think about which COVID-19 protections to end, extend, or make permanent.
Disagreements about when or if the world will return to a pre-pandemic “normal” complicate these decisions, but the relationship between the state of the health crisis and the laws designed to mitigate that crisis increasingly appears disconnected. At least according to Councilmember Tammy Morales, the council has not discussed universal standards for ending or extending certain