Wearing masks not only keeps people healthy but it’s also what’s allowing businesses to stay open, according to Governor Eric Holcomb. “You mask up to stay open,” he said during Wednesday’s COVID-19 press conference. “If you care about Main Street, if you care about the economy, you only have to look around into some other places that are doing the opposite, closing down. And so I don’t like them either, but it’s just a fact of life right now. And it is a fact of, underscore three times, life!”
Holcomb said the decreasing unemployment rate and the number of new job commitments prove that Indiana’s strategy is working, along with the state’s COVID-19 numbers. “If our kids in school can do this and we’re not seeing that spin out of control because they’ve put measures in place – if our kids can do it, then I’m pretty sure I can,” the governor added.
Holcomb called Indiana one of the most open states in the country right now.
