Rather Gov. Kemp is a pioneer.
And only Kemp (a Republican) was criticized twice in front of the Fake News by our President.
Huh. Seems to me Cuomo “sacrificed” a few thousand more humans than Kemp did, in the nursing homes he forced, FORCED, to accept infected patients. Kemp didn’t FORCE anyone to do anything, and his numbers are down. We all need to push this point with people we know. We HAVE TO use small, simple, clear points like this to CHANGE MINDS of people in our lives, ONE AT A TIME. Make them think. Make them doubt what they are being fed. This is OUR JOB, not someone else’s. Our job.
bkmk
Their battle cry, go back to work, they want you dead
Yesterday my husband and I went for a ride up to the mountains of north GA. We drove through the town of Helen, a popular tourist spot. The place was packed. Most of the shops were opened. Only saw two people with face masks, no social distancing. Everyone was having a great time.
The article fails to recognize Florida. We are in phase II. Here in the north part of the state restaraunts are now 50% capacity inside dining, barbershops, salons and all beaches open 100% and hallelujah it’s a miracle....were all still alive...Imagine that. Now if they’d just get rid of the one way isles in grocery stores and walmart etc....what a dumb idea.
It's amazing how many pinhead "journalists" and opinionated blowhards have suddenly become epidemiologists and infectious disease experts. But in their defense, the so-called pros in this area are beginning look a lot like chicken little.
People are being judged by the way they choose to spell their LAST NAMES.
In time past some last names ended spelled “Jr.” or in some families as “II” or “III”.
Today judgement is made as whether the last name is ended by an (R) or (D).
Martin Luther King judged a person by the “Content of his Character”, which required getting to know the actual person.
It is easier today, just learn the last name’s spelling.
Georgia, meanwhile, is well ahead of Colorado in terms of coronavirus testing. Both states are projected to have almost no coronavirus infections by August, according to the most recent projections from the vaunted Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which were last updated on May 12, more than two weeks after both states began to reopen.
That all seems pretty similar. Wonder why the coverage has been so different?
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It’s a mystery.
As far as I know, Georgia is far more open than is Colorado. Restaurants in Colorado are only open for delivery and carry-out. In Colorado, Very few office towers are open for entry(front main entrance doors locked). Hellen, Ga. is a nice little town that was re-designed to look like a Swiss Village. Surrounded by hills and valleys, Hellen is a very beautiful place to visit. Red Rocks in Morrison, Co. has appeared to have cancelled or postponed all of its summer concerts. At this time, Colorado is not open for tourism.
Who is propagating the myth that Colorado is open? Ask the restaurant owners whose licenses were pulled, the couple arrested for daring to walk in the king’s forest, or any of us barred from 75% of our normal activities (please don’t recreate more than 10 miles from your home for instance)
Recall Polis now....
Atlanta is starting to open up. Saturday the zoo opened. Today the botanical garden opens. LA Fitness will open on Friday.
bttt, Cuomo has blood on his hands and the media celebrates that.
If not the headline. t he quote does appear in https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georgia-reopening-coronavirus-pandemic/610882/
Georgia’s brash reopening puts much of the state’s working class in an impossible bind: risk death at work, or risk ruining yourself financially at home. In the grips of a pandemic, the approach is a morbid experiment in just how far states can push their people. Georgians are now the largely unwilling canaries in an invisible coal mine, sent to find out just how many individuals need to lose their job or their life for a state to work through a plague.
And is yet quoted in another (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/what-freedom-means-trump/611083)
South Carolina did not take the lead this time in subjugating the community for the freedom of the individual. “Georgians are now the largely unwilling canaries in an invisible coal mine, sent to find out just how many individuals need to lose their job or their life for a state to work through a plague,” The Atlantic’s Amanda Mull explained.
Yet the Asian flu pandemic of 1957-1958 resulted in a estimated 116,000 deaths in America (followed by the Hong Kong flu with about est. 100,000 American deaths in 1968–69), when at about 173,000,000, the population size in 57-58 was close to half of what it is now (330,541,000, rounded figures). Meaning that not only was the infection death rate much higher than for COVID-19, but there would have to be about 200,000 COVID-19 est. deaths to be comparable to the Asian flu. Yet that would simply make it basically equal as concerns the numbers of deaths in proportion to population size, but to justify the "CovidCaptivity," one would have to argue that the Asian flu should have necessitated a response like that to COVID-19. The Soviets would have favored that for sure.
The question then is, where was the COVID-19 comparative response in 57-58 in proportion to its threat? Yes, the 116,000 deaths in America to the Asian flu was for the whole year, yet even if we reach about 200,000 deaths (we pray not) for COVID-19 then that type of equality would still mean that the extremely restrictive all-ages long-term response to COVID-19 simply has no precedent in American history, except to a degree with the far more deadly (550,000 to 675,000 Americans, or 0.66% of the population) 1918 flu.
And yet we read ,