When Pennsylvania’s governor ordered a coronavirus shutdown back in March, it was easy. Stay home. Only leave for essential work or to shop at essential businesses.

Now we’re in a “green” phase. Life seems more confusing, writes Nina Feldman for WHYY, as posted on gantdaily.com.

Businesses reopened after virus counts went down, than the counts eased back up.

Without a national message, contradictory local rules take their place. Safety becomes a matter of personal interpretation.

“In the beginning, we had a plan where there was pretty tight linkage between level of viral transmission and reopening activities,” said Susan Coffin, a pediatric infectious disease specialist.

The color coding system that had been linked to viral risk and what could be open based on that risk has now caused confusion as new virus cases go up and down.

When people don’t know what to do, they are likely to do what they wanted to do in the first place.

Take the beach.  Many people are outside probably trying to keep a safe distance from each other but may still get shamed about going to the beach in a pandemic. That makes them less likely to pay attention to new information

You can read more about coronavirus safety confusion here.

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