Welcome back to this pro rata, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Fremack.

On today's show, who's excluded from part two of the small business loan program and Google searches in the age of COVID-19?

But first, defining essential businesses.

So some states in America are beginning to reopen their economies, at least tentatively.

Georgia obviously made the biggest headlines last week with Republican Governor Brian Kemp

allowing some businesses like gyms, spas, and tattoo parlors to resume operations over the

objections of not only some local leaders in Georgia, but even the

White House. Colorado, led by Democratic Governor Jared Polis, today is launching a more

conservative reopening plan, permitting some elective medical procedures to occur and businesses

like salons to reopen, although gyms in Colorado remain closed and restaurants must remain takeout

only. Schools in both states still

shuddered. What's key to understanding about reopening, though, is that the closures weren't uniform

throughout the country, or even within some states themselves. And that's because there is no

common definition of what is an essential business outside of things like emergency rooms, pharmacies,

and supermarkets. What might need to be reopened in one state was never closed in another, and vice versa.

For example, the World Wrestling Entertainment Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut,

well that's closed. People are working from home there.

But, W.W.E. is allowed to host live events, albeit without audiences, in Florida,

which deemed W.W WWE to be an

essential business. The bottom line, the initial definitions of, quote, essential, felt random to many

and are sure to be revisited as businesses lobby to reopen. In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper with

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