Royal Rose is reopening her Colorado tattoo studio next week after closing a month ago, not because she wants to but because the bills are piling up and she says she has no choice. “I would stay home if the government encouraged that, but they’re not, they’re saying ‘Hey, the best thing to do is go back to work, even though it might be risky,'” said Rose, 39, sitting inside her salon in a wood-sided building on a leafy street in the farming and oil town of Greeley. Colorado is among the first wave of U.S. states beginning an experiment to reopen economies without the testing and contact-tracing infrastructure health experts say is needed to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus, with lives in the balance.
