Los Angeles County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Janice Hahn led the move to reopen, citing the compelling needs of local small businesses who are sliding toward bankruptcy and closure.
Hahn got the ball rolling by penning a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, citing the "injustice" of allowing big stores like Walmart and Target to stay open during the pandemic, while local small businesses were going under.
"This is an important step we can take now to shore up our economy by keeping our small businesses alive," Hahn said of the reopening.
Also championing the cause of small businesses, Barger said at a press conference last week, "Every county around us has reopened. If we do not begin to listen to our constituents and listen to what is going on in this county, we are going to have more jobs lost, because many businesses are not going to be able to reopen."
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said, "We have suffered and many are on the point of not coming back. We know how to shop safer... it's time to make sure we don't punish our local stores."
It has been over three months since Newsom put the state in lockdown on March 19, the first governor in the United States to do so.
But some residents expressed concern that the move to reopen has been premature when the state is still reporting single-day increases in coronavirus cases -- 3,644 on Friday and 2,963 on Saturday -- with 1,575 and 1,547 of those, respectively, originating in Los Angeles, the second largest city of the country.
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