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We should be grateful for good news in Georgia
The Week ^ | Matthew Walther

Posted on 05/23/2020 6:42:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Atlanta is not burning. Bodies are not piled up in the streets. Hospitals in Georgia are not being overwhelmed; in fact, they are virtually empty. There is no mad rush for ventilators (remember those?). Instead, men, women, and children in the Peach State are returning to some semblance of normal life: working outside their homes, going to restaurants and bars, getting haircuts, exercising, and most important, spending time with their friends and families and worshipping God. The opening that began more than three weeks ago is continuing apace.

Oh, my apologies, you were waiting for bad news? Sorry, I forgot, we were actually not supposed to be rooting for the virus. Despite the apparent relish behind headlines like "Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice," one assumes that most Americans, even the ones most committed to omnidirectional prophecies of doom, were actually hoping this would happen. While it really is a shame that we do not get to gloat about the cravenness and stupidity of yet another GOP politician, I think on balance most of us will be glad to hear that Gov. Brian Kemp was not badly wrong here.

What is happening instead of the widely predicted bloodbath? Confirmed cases of the virus are obviously increasing (though the actual rolling weekly average of new ones have been headed down for nearly a month) while deaths remain more or less flat. This is in fact what happens when you test more people for a disease that is not fatal or even particularly serious for the vast majority of those who contract it, for which the median age of death is higher than the American life expectancy.

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1 posted on 05/23/2020 6:42:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Gretchen Whitmer is deeply saddened.


2 posted on 05/23/2020 6:43:55 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Whitless needs to lay out her “Science” in detail and show her work.

So far she is just a hysterical hand waver.


3 posted on 05/23/2020 6:48:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: RoosterRedux

Surprised to see such a clear and coherent article out of this magazine. (I dropped it years ago because of its obvious overall liberal bias.)


4 posted on 05/23/2020 6:57:03 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: SpaceBar

Yes she is. And the media were rooting for the virus to Rebound in Georgia and Florida.

It amazes me how a national health emergency and becomes politicized. So we get to a point where Liberals are in favor of lockdowns no matter what collateral damage is done to the economy and Society. And then conservatives are in favor of reopening the country.

But then since the Liberals control the media, they are going to continue to report how so many people are getting this virus and dying, as the country reopens, and blame it all on Trump. The media template is already written.


5 posted on 05/23/2020 6:57:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: RoosterRedux

6 posted on 05/23/2020 6:59:24 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Paladin2

Whitmer, Cuomo, Murphy, Inslee, Newsom, et. al. are part of a strategy to destroy US by voting out Donald Trump in November. They think that if they put Communist Chinese Party (CCP) Virus victims in nursing homes, they can kill more people that way and somehow try to blame Trump, the same way Democrats blamed Bush for Katrina.


7 posted on 05/23/2020 7:01:52 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: God luvs America

Great chart.

That is a total mystery to me. How can the media possibly defend Cuomo?


8 posted on 05/23/2020 7:07:03 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius
That is a total mystery to me. How can the media possibly defend Cuomo?

What part of "Democrat" don't you understand?

9 posted on 05/23/2020 7:20:00 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: SpaceBar

The Mayor of Atlanta appears on CNN pouting every other day because her City has opened without problems. She even released her easing out of lockdown plan a couple of days ago. Apparently, she cannot accept that the Governor has stripped her of any power over the issue. She is completely delusional.


10 posted on 05/23/2020 7:25:17 AM PDT by wejjr235
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To: SpaceBar

No news means good news. It’s a fact that the MSM/DNC hysteria merchants were wrong, or more likely, lying.


11 posted on 05/23/2020 7:28:45 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: wejjr235

I live in heavily Democrat South Atlanta. From the start most of my neighbors ignored the isolation. They were following Republican behavior. But they will vote Democrat because the GA GOP has written them off just as much as Biden has taken them for granted.

We criticize Biden. But it cuts both ways.


12 posted on 05/23/2020 7:33:49 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: RoosterRedux

They are all asymptomatic and will die in a couple of weeks.
/s


13 posted on 05/23/2020 7:38:50 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: spintreebob

That’s true. The GOP doesn’t make much of an effort to convert Dems, and they should. Especially now.


14 posted on 05/23/2020 7:44:02 AM PDT by livius
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To: RoosterRedux
... for which the median age of death is higher than the American life expectancy.

Would you look at that.

15 posted on 05/23/2020 2:51:11 PM PDT by FreeReign
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