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The flip side is that many businesses were given waivers enabling them to stay open for reasons that were not clear. The criteria for granting these waivers were never made public, which created a lot of flak about favoritism, cronyism, and the like. I haven't researched this to any extent, but the lack of transparency issue was complained about in a town hall by my State Senator. Both he and Wolf are Democrats, by the way--so there's no partisan issue.
That's why transparency is important. Laws without rationales seem to cause resentment.