Author: Diane Gramley

The first COVID-19 case in Pennsylvania was March 6, 2020. On March 13th Governor Wolf announced that all schools in PA would be closed for two weeks on that same day President Trump declared a national emergency due to the pandemic. From there it was downhill — by March 17th the PA Turnpike at restricted access to all service plazas, the Pittsburgh marathon had been cancelled. By March 19th all “non-life sustaining” businesses in PA must close their physical locations, bars and restaurants are closed. On March 23rd Governor Wolf extends the school closures. Churches, schools, public libraries, restaurants for in-person dining, non-life sustaining businesses remained closed for months and months. This continued and, to some extent, still continues, as we get warnings from the CDC and Dr. Fauci that more is coming, But was this all necessary or did it, as President Trump feared, cause more harm than was necessary.