Gov. Whitmer: Restaurants and Bars in Northern Michigan Can Reopen May 22 | Eater Detroit
"Used by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as a grim point of reference to convey the scale of COVID-19 fatalities in Michigan, the downtown Detroit venue was cited to illustrate that enough people had died to fill the theater—an image invoked to underscore the pandemic's severity and to justify a cautious, phased approach to reopening." - Brenna Houck